FounderPool

De-Risking startup founders by pooling equity

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De-Risking startup founders by pooling equity

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Pool your startup equity with inspiring, VC-backed founders vested in your success. Diversify your financial risk and increase your odds of an exit. FounderPool is your go-to resource for Investor Intros, Hiring Referrals, Growth Advice, Partnerships & more.

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Cool idea? Why limit it to Founders, though? Any shareholder could contribute to a pool based on the last valuation of the shares. And de-risk.

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6yr ago

FounderPool

Maker

@vladdione Yes, we do have early stage employees participating in pools. For effective execution, we focused our marketing on under served market, founders. We hope to expand this to other areas in the future.

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6yr ago

Kontrol for Tesla

Great concept and especially useful for first-time founders. As others have pointed out , the success of this concept will depend on having a sufficiently large selection and being able to match founders to pools. Are you planning on grading pools depending on amount of funding, founder background etc ?

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6yr ago

?makers > San Francisco and Silicon Valley account for 13.5% of global startup deals. .so. ?> Are there certain tools you find essential to reach these Founders during this difficult season? Assuming Founders are sharing non-disclosable(NDA) details within communications with the equity pool do you see security is in great question given the failures of newer softwares like zZoom, are you looking at something more like Jitsi(https://www.producthunt.com/post...) to deliver to Founders this equity pool over the wire?

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6yr ago

I'm so glad this exists and that it's run by such great people. First-time founders should be able to diversify just as serial founders always have. The psychological benefits of belonging to a cohort with aligned interests, and the economic benefits of being able to survive one failure are both significant.

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6yr ago

FounderPool

Maker

@jim_o_neill High praise coming from you Jim. Thank you. The psychological benefits of having a support network are very under appreciated.

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6yr ago

Genius qualification method for building an elite network, while providing a valuable financial service.

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6yr ago

FounderPool

Maker

@karel_baloun Thank you Karel. I assume you are talking about the peer selection model?

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6yr ago

Pensive - Kevin Kelly And Technological Forces

If you can make more founders not give up by pooling risk, that is great. The value of the community will also be a huge factor for making this work. Best of luck on your journey.

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6yr ago

FounderPool

Maker

@link Thank you. We want people to contribute enough equity to move the needle if a big exit happens in their pool, but not so much that they lose interest in working hard due to a loss of skin in the game. Moreover, most people continue to run their companies not just for a financial return, but to have a bigger impact. We think that will continue to be true.

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6yr ago

Fascinating concept, and one I've actually looked at implementing several times at firms where we had a large network of portfolio companies who worked closely together. Interested to see if this takes off!

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6yr ago

FounderPool

Maker

@melt_dem Thank you Meltem. Our goal is to reduce friction in this process of pooling while maintaining the quality of founders participating in pools.

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6yr ago

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