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Wefunder
Technology, Information and Internet
Gun Barrel City, Texas 23,548 followers
Invest in startups you love.
About us
Wefunder (W13) is a Public Benefit Corporation on a mission to fix capitalism. We help ambitious founders raise the capital they need to grow. And enable more people to invest in startups they love.
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https://wefunder.com/
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- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Gun Barrel City, Texas
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2011
- Specialties
- investing, community rounds, angel investing, startups, and venture capital
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Healthcare has been the #1 sector on Wefunder over the last couple of years. That surprised me at first. Community Rounds are usually more closely associated with consumer-facing startups with large audiences (Substack, Replit, Mercury, Meow Wolf, etc.). But healthcare has quietly become the strongest industry sector on Wefunder. I think there are several reasons for this: (1) Success begets success. Healthcare startups have raised some large rounds on Wefunder. Other founders see that. Investors see that. The category compounds. (2) For biotech and medical device founders, it's a lot tougher to raise venture capital than it was in the boom boom years of 2018-21. And so Wefunder is a more valuable alternative option. (3) Maybe the most powerful of all — investing in healthcare is often "impact investing" on Wefunder. As you can see from many of the quotes below, many Wefunder investors are motivated by "mission", as well as money. If you lost a relative to brain cancer, investing $1,000 (average investment size on Wefunder) in Siren Biotechnology might carry more significance than a mere financial transaction. Public Benefit Corporations also tend to do very well on Wefunder (a PBC ourselves). I expect for similar reasons. — The slides below highlight ten healthcare startups that have successfully raised capital on Wefunder. I could have included hundreds more. If you're a healthcare founder considering raising capital via a Community Round, a few key points to be aware of: - Can raise $5M per year - From retail investors, as well as accredited investors - 1 SPV on the cap table - Ideally following on from institutional investors, but doesn't have to be Shout out to Caley Anderson, MBA and Christiaan Engstrom at Bullpen for catching the vision early, and helping champion Community Rounds as a valuable option for healthcare founders. And to all the founders highlighted below — plus the hundreds not highlighted — who opened up the opportunity to invest in their startups to patients, advocates, and community members, as well as VCs. Conor Cullinane, PhD Nicole K. Paulk, PhD Tyler Hayes Wesley A. Wierson, PhD Sam Corcos Josh Clemente Siva Nadarajah Sharon Samjitsingh Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA Travis Lacey Wayne Delport Jim Iversen Jacqueline Iversen
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Power to the people.
If VCs were NFL teams. Andreessen Horowitz = Cowboys. The loudest brand in the room. Huge media presence. Thinks it’s the center of the universe. Somehow both overhyped and undeniably powerful. Sequoia Capital = Patriots. The dynasty machine. Ruthlessly optimized. Cold, efficient, terrifying over long time horizons. Y Combinator = 49ers. The Bay Area institution. Deep bench. System produces talent almost automatically. Benchmark = Chiefs. Smaller than the giants, but absurdly elite per capita. Disciplined. Minimalist. Every move looks smarter in hindsight. SoftBank Investment Advisers = Jets. Massive spending. Constant headlines. Periodic declarations that “this year is different.” Founders Fund = Eagles. Aggressive. Intense. Slightly unhinged energy. Supporters convinced they’re misunderstood geniuses. Wefunder = Packers. Power to the people.
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Wefunder now supports Reg D SPVs. For companies with a large audience of passionate fans, a Reg CF Community Round is a great way to delight your customers, and strengthen your community. For companies that want to keep it on the DL, and close on funds faster, a Reg D Private Round could be a better fit. You can spin up a deal page in minutes, and share your startup with 80K accredited investors on the Wefunder platform. 1 SPV on your cap table. Learn more here: wefunder.com/private-round
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Congrats to Replit on their recent Series D. Great news for their 2,588 users who were invited to invest in their community round. Shout out to Amjad Masad for letting Replit's community share in the upside. Read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/ed4DA4Ug
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Warm Intro: The Philosopher Sharing Indian Thought with the World: Professor Purushottama Billimoria is a philosopher, historian, and one of the people most responsible for getting the world of philosophy to take Indian and Eastern thought seriously, not as spirituality or religious studies, but as philosophy proper. https://lnkd.in/gczBvfYU He's also my former professor and friend. Join us for a deeply human conversation about philosophy, the corrupting power of wealth, the Parsi Diaspora, and Bob Dylan.
The Philosopher Sharing Indian Thought with the World
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The Chinatown Local Running To Replace Nancy Pelosi Connie Chan 陳詩敏 is running for one of the most important and influential house seats in the country. Her path here has been unlike anyone else's. Connie is an immigrant, and a daughter of San Francisco's Chinatown. She rose through the ranks of city government, eventually coming to represent a large portion of it. She's a proud progressive from a very proudly progressive city, now in a race for mainstream power. Join us for sentimental conversation about how Connie got her name, what went wrong in San Francisco, and Chai's question that made Connie pause.
The Chinatown Local Running To Replace Nancy Pelosi
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Jack Kuveke is a spitting image of the disgraced CEO Adam Neumann. At 20, he ran a 50 million dollar crypto fund in Belgrade, Serbia. His "fund" and meme factory is Jabroni Capital. Almost everything about Jack is objectively hilarious. Jack is an absurd man who has had an absurd career in an absurd industry. This has given him the ability to ridicule tech and finance better than anyone else. He sincerely roasts CEOs and his fake VC firm invests at the earliest stages, except you “because you’re too early”. He does all of this on the most unintentionally funny platform, Linkedin. Join Warm Intro and Chai Mishra for a ridiculous conversation about how Jack made a career posting memes, why Peter Thiel is so worried about the anti-christ, and why VCs and CEOs (including Chai) love getting roasted by Jack.
The Funniest Man On Linkedin
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Warm Intro: The Immigrant Woman Who Sold A Million Pairs of Shoes SQ (sidra qasim) created the internet’s favorite sneaker. In getting there, she has lived a life that no one could have predicted. Born and raised in rural Pakistan, Sidra clawed her way out of a system that afforded her no opportunities. Through sheer will, she made it to America and started a company that no one believed she could run. But now, at 39, Sidra is the founder CEO of Atoms— notoriously the world’s most comfortable sneaker brand, with over 1,000,000 pairs sold, worn by celebrities from Malala to Marques Brownlee, funded by Silicon Valley’s greatest minds. Join us for a deeply sentimental conversation about what true courage looks like, how things go viral, and how just about every founder deals with depression at one point.
The Immigrant Woman Who Sold A Million Pairs of Shoes
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Wefunder reposted this
Talking about vibe coding tools with some friends yesterday. I bring up windsurf and one goes “what’s windsurf” and I realized then what a whirlwind this past year has been in terms of all the new tools that came to relevance. So I wrote about it 👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/g9RexCXS