Launched this week
Pond
Fundraising, GTM, and bounties for startups
427 followers
Fundraising, GTM, and bounties for startups
427 followers
Pond is the market infrastructure for the new startup economy. Verified founders raise capital, acquire customers, and access 20,000+ contributors in one place. · Markets: Stripe-verified metrics + Vault-protected funding. One startup raised $150K in 3 minutes. · Bounties: 10,000+ submissions, $36K+ distributed. Ethereum Foundation, GPTZero, PhotoBase. · AI Growth Agent: CRM, pipeline, and GTM on autopilot. 400+ startups · 154 countries · Archetype & Coinbase Ventures.
The hardest part is usually getting those first customers. How the GTM side performs compared to the fundraising side?
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@mert__33 Totally agree — getting the first customers is often harder than building the product.
That’s why we see fundraising and GTM as connected. Pond Markets helps founders turn traction into capital, while Pond Growth and Bounties help with feedback, early users, campaigns, and distribution support.
We want to help startups keep growing after they raise, not just complete a round.
Pound Bounties seems like an interesting framing; how do you deal with fraud, has it been an issue so far?
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Love the global angle. Opening access to founders regardless of geography could unlock a lot of talent that traditional venture networks often miss.
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@artem_myronchuk Exactly. If a startup has real traction, revenue, and user growth, it should be able to access capital and support regardless of where the founder is based. That’s a big part of why we built Pond.
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Congrats on the launch! Bringing fundraising, customer acquisition, and contributor networks together in one platform solves a surprisingly fragmented problem for founders.
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@marianna_tymchuk Thank you, Marianna — that’s exactly the problem we’re trying to solve.
Founders today don’t just need capital. They also need customers, contributors, feedback, and execution support. Pond brings those pieces together so startups can move from traction to scale much faster.
Will filtering for better products on Pond be important? Bc if there is such a volume of low-quality of products/startups, it might dilute the 10000+ people who want to help, right?
Congrats on the Launch, Dylan!!
Two Robots
Congrats on #3! Running our first bounty with you guys later this month. Can't wait to see it go live!