As an early stage founder, it's hard to get in front of the right investors. The Premoney List is a mini-marketplace that presents two founders to a group of 600+ investors each week. 🚀 Founders: Meet more investors! 🕵🏽‍♀️ Investors: Discover new companies!

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m extremely excited to share my first Product Hunt launch with you all. Looking forward to your feedback, advice, and thoughts. What is Premoney? It’s no secret that starting a company, raising money & getting in front of the right people is hard. That process is even harder when you’re a first-time founder. I started The Premoney List as an attempt to increase access to conversations with investors & advisors for early & first time founders. While scouting for Amplifyher Ventures, a fund focused on female-founded companies, I also saw first hand that a tiny % of venture $ goes towards female founded companies. The same ridiculous figure is true for bipoc founders. I decided that ‘scouting in public,’ and focusing on a more representative group of founders may help to chip away at these gaps. The Premoney List is a weekly newsletter-driven marketplace, featuring two very early-stage (premoney!) companies to a list of a couple hundred investors and potential advisors. If an investor or advisor is interested in connecting with the founder(s), we’ll introduce them. What we’ve done to date:

We’ve met & featured tons of amazing founders.

Conducted dozens of introductions.

60%+ female & bipoc founders featured.

Have learned a ton along the way.

Premoney is free for both founders and investors. For founders: 🚀

Submit your company info.
We’ll review every entry, and reach out to discuss you being featured.
Once featured, we’ll introduce you over email to interested investors and advisors.

For investors & advisors: 🤝

Sign up for the Premoney newsletter (also found here: premoney.substack.com).
Receive the curated list each Tuesday.
Request introductions to companies that you’re interested in working with.

Would love any feedback from this community, and am very open to collaboration for anyone interested in connecting. Thank you all! Jake Huge shoutout to @Kevin for hunting Premoney :-).

@kevin @jake_schonberger1 love this. Signing up to see the startups now!

Love how you made this lean by starting with a substack newsletter first. Great potential!

@daryllman Thanks Daryll. Using a newsletter to test out different content and engagement models. Next step is to build a super curated live marketplace (thinking 2-4 companies per week) on top of the newsletter, but still trying to figure the right approach. Let me know you're open to throwing around a few ideas!

@jake_schonberger1 Thats great! Many a times we are too eager to jump into created a full-fledged platform, without figuring out exactly whats good or whats not. Awesome hearing that you are carefully weighing options!

@daryllman Definitely resisted the urge a couple of times! A quick next step might even be moving to something like Ghost which supports more newsletter / email integrations. We'll see!

@jake_schonberger1 All the best, and looking forward!

So exciting to see Premoney launched here! Congrats @jake_schonberger1! Definitely one of my favourite newsletters! Excited to see what comes next!

Thank you @aashnisshah! So glad to have featured Hypedocs & Taonga...excited to see where they both go 🚀

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