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A fundraising copilot for founders
Mark Bugas
Flowlie — A fundraising copilot for founders
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Flowlie is the first all-in-one Fundraising Hub for early stage founders to plan their rounds, prepare their outreach, discover investors, and manage their fundraise. Special bonus: book a free fundraising consultation through the link on our landing page.
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Mark Bugas
Hey everyone - we’re thrilled to launch a product today for our fellow founders, creators, and builders ⛏️. Introducing the Fundraising Hub, a copilot that helps founders close rounds faster. ✍️ Our Story: “why we made it” Fundraising is brutal - we know from experience. It’s overwhelming and insanely time consuming, with the average fundraise taking 6 months and up to 2/3rd’s of a founder’s time. It’s never been a more exciting time to be in tech - founders from every corner of the planet 🌎 are building game-changing products. But when it comes to fundraising, entrepreneurs often struggle with implementing the right process, communicating their message, and finding the right partners. As a result, many founders end up in an endless fundraising loop that prevents them from working on the actual business. We believe the next generation of world-class companies will be built by diverse, underrepresented, digitally-native, data-driven founders, many of whom reside outside of major tech hubs without pre-existing investor networks. It’s time those disruptors have access to software that can help them with one of the most pressing challenges they face each year. Flowlie’s Fundraising Hub is an AI-enabled fundraising copilot that guides founders through their fundraising & business-building journeys. 🎯 Target audience: “who we made it for” Early stage, often technical founders with limited or no VC network. 80% of our users are pre-seed / seed founders raising from angels, family offices, and VCs. 75% of our users are first-time founders (but we also have 5x founders). ✅ Key Features: “how we do it” 🛠️ Round builder: from how much to raise to what's the right valuation, planning a round can be overwhelming. Design your fundraise with a guided round builder that defines common terminology, forecasts your dilution, and suggests best practices. 🤖 Deck management & AI deck analyzer (in beta): put your deck to the test before sharing it with investors with our AI-powered deck reviewer giving you slide-by-slide improvement suggestions from content to design. 👏Fundraising coaching (in beta): generate effective company descriptions, improve your elevator pitch, and more with Flowlie's AI. 📄 One-pager builder: show investors exactly what they need to see to make decisions faster with a standardized one-pager template that organizes company details, round information, founder backgrounds, traction, product demos, and decks into a digestible format. 👨‍💼 📈 Personalized investor database: jumpstart your fundraise by researching investors who are a good fit for you and crafting the perfect outreach message using our AI auto-compose feature (AI auto-compose coming soon). 👁️👣 View tracking: track every time an investor looks at your investment materials, know when to follow up, and learn about their investment preferences and behavior. Whether you’re an entrepreneur yourself or know a founder, give the gift of fundraising clarity by supporting and sharing our launch! And most importantly, please let us know what else you’d like to see from Flowlie’s Fundraising Hub! Thank you, Mark & Vlad Flowlie co-founders
Mark Bugas
@mohini_shewale thank you! Really grateful for all the support from the PH community
Mark Bugas
@ujjwalsb thank you - it's an exciting day!
Mark Bugas
@josephkay glad to hear you think so - please check it out and share with other founders!
Mark Bugas
@niya_paul thanks so much Niya
André J
Awesome! Would be really cool if it had a bulk pitch uploader. All the VCs has google forms on their website where they as questions and then you get to upload your pitch at the end. But it takes forever to this over and over 😂 I gave up after 10 😅
Mark Bugas
@sentry_co SO true - we've all been there. This is very much top of mind - we want to make it as easy as possible for founders to submit form fills to funders and accelerators. We'll let you know as soon as we have a prototype for this and would love to hear your thoughts!
André J
@mark_bugas They all ask the same questions so should be doable with some scripting and GPT prowess 💪 ... unless the vc's fight back with a captcha 😂 and we are back to step 1 again 😅
Mark Bugas
@sentry_co this spot on! Super valuable feedback. Thank you for elaborating. I have spent WAY too many hours of my life submitting the same info on different VC websites
Vlad Cazacu
@mark_bugas @sentry_co This is a great idea, we may be able to do it even better & faster by leveraging the data from Flowlie. Something that will be brought into the product discussion for next week. Thanks for the feedback!
Chuck Walter
@mark_bugas @sentry_co @caz_vlad i recently saw a local company offer a browser plugin to quickly fill in insurance rate request forms. Perhaps a similar concept can apply
Uma Venugopal
this is brilliant stuff! super helpful for founders! Great job to the Team @ Flowlie. Does you also have an option for getting a meeting/intro to VCs via a warm network?
Mark Bugas
@uma_venugopal thanks for the feedback - that's wonderful to hear! To answer your question, we do have a "Intro Path" feature within the Investor Database. The more you share your FlowLink with investors, the more intro paths will be surfaced. Let me know if that helps answer your question!
Vlad Cazacu
@uma_venugopal Thank you for your support and feedback, Uma!
Hossein Yazdi
This is really helpful for startup founders! They're already messing around with their thousands of tedious works at the start, this would help them a lot on their way. Great idea!
Mark Bugas
@hosseinyazdi thanks! Glad to hear you think so. There are so many responsibilities as a founder, so we're keen to make the fundraising journey more digestible, understandable, and scalable so they can spend more time building their business
Vlad Cazacu
@hosseinyazdi Thanks a lot for the feedback and support, Hossein!
Eric R. Burgess
Perfect timing to see this - we're just about to raise for our new public benefit corp. Any specials for PBCs?
Mark Bugas
@erburgess Fantastic. Why don't we book some time for a free fundraising consultation? Just click 'visit' to go to our landing page and book using the CTA on the website. We don't have a predetermined discount for PBCs but would be very happy to discuss you being the first!
Annie Chopra
Wow! Its funny to think that there isnt already a platform that fixes or supports the fundraising stage for founders! I think its great that Flowlie exists! Its a platform thats going to help many founders
Vlad Cazacu
@annie_chopra Thank you, Annie! The fundraising space has been severely fragmented over the past years and we believe there is a great opportunity to bring a lot of these tools under one roof and leverage our big data expertise and the latest AI models to optimize as many workflows as possible.
Janosch Lenzi
Hi Mark, I love the approach to the subject. May I ask you a couple of questions? 1. are the investors in your database more distributed in certain regions (US, Europe, etc.) or are they distributed globally? 2. what area of fundraising intervention are you most effective in? Pre-seed? Seed? Round A? Next Rounds? Thanks and congratulations again for the launch and for the amazing platform, super useful for Founders! All the best 💪
Mark Bugas
@janosch_lenzi1 fantastic questions! We currently have the best coverage in North America and UK, but are expanding the database to reflect our global user base (there are over 70 countries currently represented by founders on the platform). We also take requests on regional coverage - let us know what would be most helpful to you! Roughly 80% of our user base are raising angel, pre-seed or seed rounds. The next most common stage is Series A, and we have representation from Series B and C companies too, though to a lesser extent. We're primarily focused on the earliest stages of capital raising, from angel rounds to Series A.
Yemi Oyepeju
Congrats, Mark and team! Too bad I missed this on launch day. This looks useful to help founders on their fundraising journey which can be intimidating for starters. I'll check it out in depth and hopefully subscribe soon.
Mark Bugas
@uxyemi never too late - you’re helping us compete for product of the week! Looking forward to our call in a few weeks and seeing how we can help you close your round
John Williams
This is such a great idea. Not a lot of platforms out there for angels for deal and portfolio tracking
Mark Bugas
@lifeasjohn yeah, definitely agree with you there. Appreciate your feedback.
Toni Gemayel
If you dropped Vlad & the Flowlie team on an island full of cannibals and come back in five years, you would come back and find them kings of the island. Dont bet against this team!
Vlad Cazacu
@tonigemayel easily the best comment so far 🚀 no need to put the cannibals to the test tho 😅
Jeff Erickson
Way to go @mark_bugas and @caz_vlad!!! Super excited for you guys!!! Love seeing Flowlie listed on the Startup Stack also!!!
Mike Arinarkin
@mark_bugas @caz_vlad @jeff_erickson2 Thank you Jeff! The team appreciates it. -- And thank you for noticing Startup Stack too: we are trying to spread the word and get this tool into the hands of more founders!
Vlad Cazacu
@mark_bugas @jeff_erickson2 Thank you for all your support, Jeff!!
Nate Watkin
Great work guys. Have really enjoyed using the product to date and am excited to see where it goes from here.
Vlad Cazacu
@assembletv Thanks a lot for all the feedback and review, Nate! So many things in stock for the next few months. Hope that next time you're raising we can deliver 10x the value we did the first time.
Bernardt Vogel
Flowlie positions itself as a comprehensive resource for early-stage founders engaged in fundraising efforts. It serves as an all-in-one Fundraising Hub, offering tools to plan funding rounds, prepare for investor outreach, discover potential investors, and manage the fundraising process effectively. Additionally, Flowlie offers a unique bonus: founders can book a free fundraising consultation through a link on their landing page. This feature adds significant value for founders looking for guidance and support in their fundraising endeavors.
Mike Arinarkin
@bernardt_vogel1 Thank you for your support! We offer investor accounts with specific investor workflows as well!
Ahmed El Naggar
I love using Flowlie, it made my fundraising process way more organized and It replaced 3 others tools that I used to pay for.
Mark Bugas
@itsahmednaggar As always, appreciate your support Ahmed! It's been an absolute pleasure working with you and we're glad to have helped with your fundraising process.
Vlad Cazacu
@itsahmednaggar Thank you for the support, Ahmed!
Chris Daniels
I was luck to use the Flowlie beta for our Incubator and Accelerator (117 founders) and it was AWESOME! The ability for an incubator, accelerator, or VC fund to showcase the startups in their cohort/portfolio publicly AND standardize information across their cohorts was amazing for us. Happy to see Flowlie launch publicly here!
Mark Bugas
@chris_daniels27 we loved working with your team and the founders in your programs. Glad to hear you got as much value from our partnership as we did. Can't wait to do it again
Vlad Cazacu
@chris_daniels27 Super excited about doing it again next year! The next cohort will be lucky to see a new and improved product with a lot of feedback from this year's Built In Miami 🚀
Kuhu Singh
This is great stuff! Congratulations om the launch. Wondering if it’s also possible to get a warm intro through the platform?
Mark Bugas
@kuhu_singh3 thank you! Really appreciate it. While we do surface potential intro paths as you start to use the platform and share your FlowLink with investors, we don't directly facilitate warm intros through the platform at the moment. Currently focused on arming founders with the right data and intelligence, but we don't act as an intermediary. Does that make sense?
Artem Konovalov 💎
Just stumbled upon Flowlie. An all-in-one funding toolbox for early stage founders? Oh boy, this is pure gold! Already booked my free consultancy. 🔥🚀
Mark Bugas
@mattisssa let's go!! Love to hear your enthusiasm for the product. Excited to speak with you soon and figure out how we can help you close your round faster than ever.
Uladzislau Rymasheuski
congrats on a launch! Feeling like I might be an end user of your service!
Mark Bugas
@rimash thanks for your warm wishes. We sure hope so! Let us know what you think as you get going, and consider taking the opportunity to book a free fundraising consultation through the link on our landing page
Vlad Cazacu
@rimash Great to hear! Happy to help with onboarding :)
Stepan Calta
Hi Mark and team! Good luck with the launch. Looks awesome. I love the possibility to book a free consultation regarding the fundraising! We'll definitely make use of it.
Mark Bugas
@stepancalta fantastic - really looking forward to chatting, learning more about the round you're raising, and seeing how we can help!
James Sullivan
Love this team and love this product. Going to change the game in terms of managing your fundraise. Both for startups and investors.
Mike Arinarkin
@james_sullivan3 Thank you James! We are hoping so too. It is time to make the fundraising process for efficient!