We live in a world where 95% of startup founders who set out to raise capital, fail for one reason or another.

I created Fulcrum Venture Accelerator to help fix this problem. After raising multiple rounds of financing at Kindara, I realized that instead of the disorganized approach that most founders take, I could take a systematic approach to raising capital.

I created a 5 step process for raising seed capital - Tilling, Planting, Watering, Harvesting, Closing. By defining the steps and following my own recipe, I not only knew exactly what to do at every step of my raise, I was also able to raise bigger and bigger rounds as Kindara grew.

After Prima-Temp acquired Kindara, I started helping friends raise seed rounds using the fundraising process I developed. I was excited to see that the process could be taught and applied successfully by entrepreneurs in different industries.

Running out of money is the #1 reason startups fail. I’ve seen many good companies fail because the founder wasn’t able to raise seed funding. Many founders go about the fundraising process in a disorganized and scattered way, or worse they don’t follow a process at all, and they end up wasting a huge amount of time and come up empty handed.

Of course this isn’t their fault, because nobody has been teaching founders a proven process to raise seed funding, and walking them through the steps until now.

In 2020 I founded Fulcrum, a fundraising accelerator for mission-driven entrepreneurs. Every quarter we look for the best companies with a positive social mission, and put them through a rigorous process of fundraising development to help them execute on their raise. We spend time making sure founders understand the process at a deep level, and execute a successful fundraise so they can close their round and get on with building their company.

I like to remind founders that they can delegate marketing, product, finance, customer support, operations, manufacturing, and design, but they can’t delegate fundraising. For this reason becoming excellent at fundraising can massively turbo-charge what a given founder is able to accomplish and the difference they are able to make.

We help our founders be among the top 1% of entrepreneurs when it comes to raising money. To date more than $20M in pre-seed and seed capital has been raised using our process.

We look for high-caliber founders who are building something impactful and who are currently raising (or about to be raising) seed capital. Learn more and apply at www.fulcrumventureaccelerator.com