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“First time investing but I believe in the product!”

— @wefunder investor note just now.

Hundreds of thousands of people have now made their first ever startup investment on Wefunder.

Soon, this will be millions.

Cool.

Startup investing shouldn't be limited:

- To rich people,
- To VC funds,
- To wealthy angel investors,
- To insiders,

Why should they get all the fun?

Everyone should be able to invest in their favorite startups.

The Wefunder VIP card is pretty nice. It’s a solid black card. A nice collectible.

Community Rounds in a nutshell:
💸 can raise $5M per year
😍 everyone can invest, not just rich people
📢 can publicly promote the fundraise
📜 one SPV on your cap table

♥️

- A beautiful house in Venice
- Over 40 CPG brands
- So many cool founders

Thanks to The SHE Mark and Cohere Commerce for hosting the InnoMarket tradeshow last week and to our very own Maggie Zheng for being there to tell our story💫

It's not a Series A.
It's not an article on TechCrunch.
It's not being invited to cool events.
It's when thousands of users love your product that you've made it.
Even better if they love it so much that they want to invest in it.
That's when you've really made it.

Every founder who's fundraising will eventually get asked:

'Why can't a competitor with deeper pockets do this?'

This is the answer:

Building community is at the heart of Wefunder.

In 2024, we want to run more and more cool events with founders.

This is a picture from our Community Roundtable in Louisville last week.

Such an awesome collection of founders, investors, and partners

Which city should be next?

This.

Launch a VIP program, they said. It will be fun, they said.

Jokes aside, congrats to all the users who have upgraded to VIP 🎉

And a huge shoutout to Merc at Wefunder for making this happen. You are a rockstar. Wefunder wouldn't be the same without you. 💫

Over 762 yogurt lovers invested $1.2 million in Painterland Sisters.

Is there anything more validating than hundreds of customers investing because they LOVE your products?

Here are some of our favorite investors’ quotes 🫶

We made The Beta Test by circumventing the film industry. We ran a Wefunder to finance it, we produced it at our dojo Vanishing Angle, we edited it, mixed it, and colored it from home, and it's coming out in theaters around the world.
This is happening. You can do this too.

In 2023, Reel Paper decided to let their customers invest alongside VCs.

Their CEO, David VanHimbergen, said “We raised the maximum that we were allowed to raise in just four weeks. We were blown away by how passionate our consumer base was.”

This is what Wefunder is all about ✨

Don't we always say that community rounds turn your customers into super fans? ✨