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.
@sasha_mcclendon Yes — we provide guided workflows and practical frameworks to help founders get started faster.
For example, founders can use Pond to structure fundraising rounds, define bounty tasks, collect feedback, run GTM campaigns, and present traction more clearly to investors.
The goal is to make the path from traction to capital and growth much more actionable, not just give founders another blank workspace.
Would love for you to try Pond and share what kind of framework would be most useful for your startup.
@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.
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Pound Bounties seems like an interesting framing; how do you deal with fraud, has it been an issue so far?
@vugar_javadov Great question — fraud is definitely something we think about carefully.
For Pond Bounties, we reduce fraud by making tasks outcome-based, requiring clear submission criteria, and letting founders review work before rewards are approved. We also look at contributor behavior, submission quality, duplicate activity, and suspicious patterns over time.
So far, the key is designing bounties around verifiable outputs instead of vague participation. That makes it much easier to separate real contribution from low-quality or fraudulent activity.
Feel free to try Pond — happy to hear any feedback.
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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.
@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.
@lakshminath_dondeti Yes. Stripe is our first integration because it gives us a clean way to verify revenue and traction, but we plan to expand beyond Stripe to support more data sources and payment providers globally.
Congrats on the launch! Bringing fundraising, customer acquisition, and contributor networks together in one platform solves a surprisingly fragmented problem for founders.
@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.
Do you provide templates or frameworks to get there?
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@thinksdylan yes please
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@sasha_mcclendon Just reached out to you from my linkedin. You can check your message!
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.
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Congrats on #3! Running our first bounty with you guys later this month. Can't wait to see it go live!