Newsletter 99: +278,000 investors,+100 pitch deck slides, and other tools for free.
Resource giveaway.
This week I am doing something different.
Throughout the past few years, I have been collecting great resources on the topic of building a company.
And I want to give them all out for free. No strings attached.
I strongly believe in paying forward because it inspires kindness, connection, and serendipitous opportunities.
So here you go, databases with a total of:
+278,000 investors (VCs, Angels, PEs, Family offices, and LPs)
+4000 case studies with founders
+100 investor-approved decks
many more tools to help you build an iconic business.
Enjoy! ❤️
Startups and fundraising
1. Learn how people are starting successful businesses.
Four thousand seventy-four case studies with founders who built their businesses to thousands of customers.
2. Pitch Deck templates.
+100 investor-approved slides.
https://www.basetemplates.com/pitch-deck-template
3. The world's largest directory of tools and resources for startups and entrepreneurs.
Over 600 products in 50 categories, such as Idea Generation, Early users, Marketing, Raising Capital, and Customer support. Each category consists of handpicked resources and tools, with their own detailed page that displays some product information.
4. Do things that don't scale.
A crowdsourced collection of unscalable startup hacks and stories.
https://dothingsthatdontscale.com/
5. Directory of angel investors by First Round Capital.
Now 120 members strong, the community spans across the United States, bringing angels from some of tech’s leading companies into conversation with the founder community.
https://angels.firstround.com/?t=home
6. Signal — a free tool for founders to find the right investors.
Signal helps you get the intros you need to the right VCs. It allows you to make your invisible network visible privately. Let’s you track your progress in building that network and lets you see the outcome of each connection you make.
7. OpenVC — an open resource (think Wikipedia) that founders connect with the right investors properly.
OpenVC drives deal flow for 1,000+ VC firms, angel networks, and corporate funds. Every week, over 100 pitch decks are sent through this platform.
8. Gen Z VCs.
A global collective of 19,000+ Gen Z VCs, founders, angel investors, operators, and aspiring VCs.
9. Gritt — a database of angel investors.
+1450 angel investors based predominantly in the USA.
10. Investor Scout — Connect with the best investors to fund your startup in seconds.
Investor Scout saves you hundreds of hours by aggregating data on 37,000+ venture capitalists, angel investors, and PE funds in one place, complete with their investment preferences and contact info.
11. VC Deals — The searchable venture capital database.
A venture capital database of +20,000 deals designed for entrepreneurs. Search startup funding data and access thousands of VC Deals in one place.
12. Finta — your fundraising copilot, automating your workflow end to end.
Finta provides a secure, online, and cloud-based deal room, which is shareable with a single link.
13. Foundersuite brings structure, speed, and efficiency to fundraising and investor relations.
Access to a database of 200,000+ VCs, Angels, Family Offices, PE, and LPs + many tools to help your fundraising process.
14. Stonks — the home for startup demo days.
First, live access to competitive, invite-only startup deals.
15. Capital — banking built for founders.
Raise, hold, spend, and send — all in one place. Just start a round or transfer funds from another bank account. No minimums and no time restrictions. Free.
16. Compound — Wealth management for people from leading tech companies.
Compound combines the best of wealth management, investment strategy, and tax planning in a thoughtfully designed personal finance platform.
Bonus — productivity tools
1. Remove.bg — Remove image background
Think removing backgrounds from photos is a fiddly task taking a lot of time and attention to detail? Even with the most professional software? Not anymore! With remove.bg, anyone can remove the background of profile pictures or holiday photos in just 5 seconds, with a single click, 100% automatically.
2. Show me a 10ft paywall, and I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL of any paywalled page, and they will try to remove the paywall and get you to access to the article.
3. TinyWOW — offers PDF, video, image, and other online tools to make your life easier.
TinyWow provides free online conversion, pdf, and other handy tools to help you solve problems of all types. All files, both processed and unprocessed, are deleted after 1 hour.
4. ContactOut — a powerful email finder tool that helps you connect with the right people in your industry.
ContactOut is an email finder tool similar to LeadIQ, Hunter.io, and SignalHire. What sets ContactOut apart from other email finder tools is the quality of data they provide. They take great care to ensure that the contact information they gather is accurate and up-to-date.
I hope you enjoyed my collection of a startup, fundraising, and productivity resources. Bookmark this page or subscribe to this newsletter, as I will continue to share similar tools every once in a while.