Experiment: If your startup is growing fast and could use $300K, email me :)
Ryan Hoover
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I ran a similar experiment on Twitter a while ago and realized I should have asked the Product Hunt community.
First, some context: I started Weekend Fund in 2017 while I was still the CEO at Product Hunt. Today, @vedika_jain and I write $100K to $300K checks into early-stage startups (most of which launched on Product Hunt at some point). Our background is in product and community building, but we have a network of over 400 LPs across every domain from data science to enterprise sales. More details at weekend.fund.
If you're primary KPI (revenue, MAU, etc.) is growing 20%+ for 6+ months, drop me a note with details ryan@weekend.fund. If you have a deck, please share but we'd also love to chat with founders that aren't actively raising but could use our capital and help. :)
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Kelly An@kellyann3644
Opencord AI
Great to see you back Ryan! Thanks for sharing the Weekend Fund news!
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Donโt Panic by Lemon.io
Love this, so sad that I'm not a founder right now :)
Nice inch! For 100-300k how much equity do you require in return? Ballpark number?
Product Hunt
@sentry_co it varies by company and stage. We target a 3%+ stake.
Product Hunt
@sentry_co yup!
Ringly.io
@sentry_co Tap looks great! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
Anyone who gets the PH cat king in their corner is on a fast track to success.
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Bluedot
do you invest in companies who are competitors with your portfolio companies?
Product Hunt
@russ_halilov we avoid that
Mockey AI
Sounds amazing! https://mockey.ai has grown so well in the last 6-8 months! 1M+ Monthly users now ๐
Sending a deck very soon.
Mockey AI has come a long way since this launch :)
SyncSignature
This is so cool. I wish I could launch my idea and grow it sooner.
Nice initiative!
Ringly.io
@sathish_nagarajan Interesting product! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
FuseBase /formerly Nimbus/
hey @rrhoover @vedika_jain - perfect timing ๐คฉ I sent you a deck, we are actively raising now after rebranding and a successful launch here on PH ๐
are there any chances we still could be in? :)
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I could use some help.
Emailed you :)
Weโve also launched today -- would love your feedback on the same
this is great, presently our product is yet to be ready, very soon it'll be ready for launch โบ๏ธ
TapRefer
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Love it! Canโt wait to see the update!
AI Desk by Collov AI
Awesome experienment
Ringly.io
@markk0217 Museclip looks fun! I'm notified! ps. ringly.io is live today your support would help us out a lot
Love it, I am not a founder yet, but I hope I can make this progress in the future
Mammoth 2
Will you share the results of this experiment (even if you don't name names)? :)
Product Hunt
@chrismessina yeah! I'll followup here in a week or so. :)
Product Hunt
@chrismessina @jordimonpmm I received several replies but none turned into a check (yet). Many companies are growing nicely, but still very early.
There are also several AI-powered companies that have good growth rates but there's a common pattern of high churn as consumers get curious to try new things but are ultimately left disappointed.