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The Founder Who Quit Fixing Pitches and Started Rewiring the Room
After raising $9.6 million and still losing her first company, Allison Byers stopped treating access to capital as a pitch-deck problem. Scroobious is her attempt to turn cold outreach into useful relationships - for $30 a month, not a cut of the check.
digitalundivided counted the founders venture capital overlooked
A missing dataset became a business-building mission. Inside the nonprofit helping overlooked founders test ideas, find investors and get past the warm-introduction problem.
Endeavor Chile wants successful founders to come back for more
The nonprofit helps Chilean entrepreneurs tackle the awkward business of getting bigger. Its longer bet: today’s founders will become tomorrow’s mentors, investors and door-openers.
Founderland Gives the Investor Pitch a Practice Room
The Berlin nonprofit helps women of colour founders prepare for capital, find investors and build useful networks. Its next bet: turn the lessons of a small accelerator into tools more founders can use.
Startup Junkie Gives Away the Advice. Arkansas Gets the Bet.
From enterprise pilots to a mushroom farm’s cooling bill, Startup Junkie puts free business help to work. Its Arkansas experiment depends on something less glamorous than a pitch: people willing to pay for somebody else’s start.
Qodeo
Qodeo is a matching platform that connects entrepreneurs seeking capital with the venture capital and private equity firms most likely to fund them. Using proprietary, AI-enabled algorithms, it filters thousands of investors down to ranked 'Hot, Warm or Cool' matches based on a company's profile and funding criteria - free for investors and without taking commission. Led by founder and CEO Simon Glass and backed by cornerstone investor Sir Harvey McGrath, Qodeo tracks over 22,000 organisations globally and aims to democratise venture by giving all entrepreneurs, especially diverse founders, access to investors they would otherwise struggle to reach.