Private founder network
As the cohort fillsFounders and CEOs of other recently funded companies, at the same stage and slightly ahead of it.
The Founding 1,000
The network for what happens
after the raise.
A private network for founders and CEOs of recently funded companies.
Tell us what you need next. AfterRaise helps put it in front of people who may be able to help.
The first 1,000 verified funded companies join free for life.
- Funded companies
- 2,336
- Disclosed rounds
- 2,399
- Capital tracked
- $444bn
- Countries
- 26
Already tracked on AfterRaise, updated daily, every figure linked to its source. Your company is probably already one of them.
Why join
Built for what happens after the announcement.
The round closes and the hard part starts. The announcement is the last easy day: everything after it is execution, and most of it depends on reaching people you do not currently know.
- Hiring
- Customers
- Partnerships
- Suppliers
- Pilots
- Market entry
- International expansion
- Advisers
- Senior leadership
- Introductions
- Execution
AfterRaise already tracks the companies. This is the part where the companies talk back.
What members get
Eight things, and what each one is worth today.
Every one of these carries its real state. A founder network with no founders in it yet is not a feature, so we say which parts work now, which start the day you are verified, and which arrive as the cohort fills.
Tell us what you need
Live todayHiring, customers, partners, distributors, suppliers, pilots, advisers, market entry or an introduction. Say it once, in your own words.
AfterRaise distribution
From verificationWe put your ask in front of people across the wider AfterRaise network who may be able to help. Your page, the Daily and the database are already read by people looking for exactly these companies.
Closed-door founder sessions
As the cohort fillsPeriodic, focused conversations about the real problems that arrive after a raise. Small, off the record, and never a keynote.
Founder-to-founder access
As the cohort fillsCompare notes with people solving the same problem this quarter, and with people who solved it last year.
Priority introductions
From verificationWhen there is a person, a market or a capability you need to reach, ask us. We help surface relevant people, companies and routes. We do not promise an introduction we cannot make.
Post-raise intelligence
BuildingWhat funded companies actually do next: hiring, expansion, partnerships, commercial moves and leadership changes, read across the whole database rather than one company at a time.
Control your company profile
From verificationCorrect what AfterRaise holds, say what you are really doing next, publish the needs you choose to publish, and set who may approach you.
The ask
What do you need next?
Tell AfterRaise what would materially help your company right now. We help put the right asks in front of people who may be able to make them happen.
HiringSenior hires and the roles that are hard to fill.CustomersThe buyers you want to reach next.PartnersCommercial, technology and channel partners.DistributorsDistributors and resellers in a market you are entering.SuppliersManufacturing, logistics and specialist suppliers.Pilots and design partnersDesign partners and first deployments.Market entryA country or a segment you have decided to open.AdvisersPeople who have already done the thing in front of you.IntroductionsA person, a company or a route you need to reach.Something elseSomething the list does not cover.
You choose who sees it: published on your company page, visible to the AfterRaise network, or private with introductions only. Nothing is published without your explicit choice, and your email address is never shown to anyone.
Closed-door founder sessions
Inside the room.
No keynote theatre. No forced networking. No obligation to turn up every month.
We bring founders together around real post-raise problems and the asks in front of them right now. Small groups, off the record, and shaped by what members are actually working on.
- Entering Germany without opening an entity first
- Hiring a VP Sales when the founder has always sold
- Finding an enterprise pilot that pays
- Choosing between a distributor and a direct team
- Regulatory expertise for a market you have not sold into
- The one introduction that would change the quarter
You can submit an ask without attending. The network should still be useful in the months you are too busy to be in the room, which is most of them.
How it works in practice
This is not another community.
- No noisy Slack.
- No networking theatre.
- No mandatory posting.
- No endless webinars.
Use the network when you need it.
Ask for help when it matters. Help someone when you can. Helping is not a condition of membership and nobody is scored on it.
Founding status
Founding Company.
The first 1,000 verified funded companies become the founding cohort and keep Founding Company status permanently. Founding membership is free for life.
The status sits on your company page and in the network. Where it is relevant, the founder is a Founding Founder. It is a fact about when you joined, so we keep it quiet and we keep it accurate.
Founding Company
Who can join
Founders, CEOs and authorised senior leaders of recently funded companies.
We verify applicants against their company before activating Founding membership. That means a work email at the company, confirmed by a six digit code, your role, and your LinkedIn profile, read together by a person.
- A work email at the company. Personal addresses cannot evidence a company request, so they are refused.
- Your role, in your words. Read alongside everything else, never on its own.
- A person decides. Applying reserves nothing. Verification is what activates a place, and somebody else applying for your company gives them no claim over it.
AfterRaise holds every disclosed US, UK and European round of $5M and above. If your round is smaller, newer or undisclosed, tell us about it and a person builds the page.
AfterRaise already tracks the market.
We are now opening the room.
Three steps, about two minutes, and no account. Find your company, tell us who you are, and tell us what you need next.