Fundraising Sprint

An 8-week intensive Group Coaching Cohort for early-stage founders who want to run a tight & rapid process, generate FOMO & momentum, build their investor lists, land meetings, and hone their pitch – with direct coaching, peer support, and accountability.

Ready. Set.

Close.

This is a collaborative sprint, not a course. We run the playbook with you alongside a curated cohort of equally ambitious founders - focused on structure, strategy, pitch authenticity & confidence, and generating investor demand. 

Look, there is a playbook to fundraising and an over-supply of advice, yet founders still waste months, even years, trying to figure it out. Our goal is that you walk away with the foundational fundraising skills, mindset, and experience to successfully fundraise for the rest of your life, close your round efficiently, and understand when to go off-book to craft your unique approach.

8-Weeks of Fundraising Focus

    • Build your investor list, land meetings, and become a fundraising machine

    • Speed up the time it takes to close

    • Hone your process and pitch with direct coaching and guidance

    • Develop a strong network of fellow tech founders for ongoing support

    • Gain foundational skills for a lifetime of fundraising success

    • Fuel your momentum with peer support & peer motivation - don’t do it alone

    • Understand investor decision-making and psyche

    • Refine your decks; build investor-ready dataroom; access our templates & custom CRM

    • Weekly cohort group coaching sessions 

    • Live, Personalized 1-1 coaching

      • Minimum 1 hour total per week

    • Access to our online community platform with:

      • Private online space for cohort collaboration: sharing wins, lessons, and more 

      • Spot coaching from Quinn & Adam - access throughout the program

      • Short-form podcast-style content on fundraising

      • A library of vetted resources

    • Co-working Sessions & Pitch Practice for peer support and feedback

    • You are raising your first or second non-family & friends round - typically pre-seed or seed ($300K-$5M)

    • You already have a pitch deck, traction (enough to raise), the team, and the product

    • You value collaboration and community and want to be open books with your fundraising process and learnings

  • The 8-Week sprint cost breakdown:

    • $4,000 upfront for the 8-week program

    • Additional $6,000 paid before your next round of funding (not this one)

      • Includes indefinite fundraising support

    A successful graduate’s all-in cost is $10,000. (likely <1% of your round)

The next cohort starts March 3rd. Applications due February 23rd.

Meet your coaches

We have been in your shoes, raised 5 rounds of funding for our own startups (from Lerer Hippeau, Pear Ventures, Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Natalie Portman, Reign Ventures, Underscore, Ludlow, and more), sold our companies, received some awards (Time Best Invention. FastCo Most Innovative), coached over 50 founders directly, mentored at Techstars and Harvard ilab, and helped founders raise over $63M in funding.

Quinn Fitzgerald

Entrepreneur. Public Speaker. Advisor. Innovator. Advocate. Startup Founder. Public Servant.

A proven mission-driven founder and advisor with experience across all stages of a business. Pioneered a new survivor-focused strategy to revolutionize the antiquated personal safety industry. Passionate champion for founders, survivors, entrepreneurs, and students

Featured on Instyle’s Baddass 50 List, Fast Company, Time, CBS Innovation Nation, Rolling Stone, Forbes, People, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Wired, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, and more.

Adam Roberts

I spent the first 5 years of my career on the US Sailing Team before turning tech. My first non-sailing job had me in a headset, “dialing for dollars,” while getting some of the best sales training available. 

I joined inDinero as their first sales hire, getting them to their first 1M ARR, and now the company is valued at over $1B. Following inDinero, I founded my own company, Paid Labs, and participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 batch.

We sold Paid Labs, and I joined Zinc Technologies (YC) as their head of sales. After two years, I returned to my passion for helping early-stage founders and joined Wefunder as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

Our Coaching Philosophy

  • Founder-Focused: We've been in your shoes and understand your challenges.

  • Unbiased Sounding Board: honest feedback and guidance to reach your goals

  • No Ego: Our advice isn’t driven by our own egos or experience bias, and we have no problem if you throw it in your mental trash bin.

  • Dual: We provide tactical strategies to get things done and mental support to navigate the emotional rollercoaster of fundraising.

  • Engaging: Fundraising can suck, but we make it deliberately enjoyable and interactive.

  • Direct: You don't have time to waste. We cut to the chase and help you get results.

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • The 8-Week sprint cost breakdown:

    Successful graduates all-in cost is $10,000.

    • $4,000 upfront

    • $6,000 only paid if you meet your predefined fundraising goal.

  • The next cohort begins on March 3rd, and will conclude April 25th

  • Expect to receive ± 3 hours of coaching per week during the program. However, there may be much heavier weeks.

  • Each cohort has around 10 founders who are all running the same process, at the same time.

    There is massive benefit: camaraderie, learning with your peers, lifelong founder friends.

  • Even when we hand-select top-tier founders and give them the best coaching possible, we still cannot guarantee success.