Foundersuite
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Foundersuite offers a software platform for fundraising and investor relations, including an investor database, CRM, warm-intro tools, investor updates, data rooms, and deal documents. It serves startups, accelerators, VCs, and investment banks worldwide.
Also known as Foundersuite.com
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Foundersuite operates a software platform for raising capital and managing investor relations. Its workflow spans searching a proprietary investor database, adding leads to a kanban-style investor CRM, using a "Get Intro" feature to source warm introductions, hosting and sending pitch decks with view tracking, sending personalized bulk emails, publishing investor updates with view and duration tracking, running diligence in a virtual data room, and closing rounds with deal documents.
Additional platform components include investor profiles with peer reviews and feedback from founders who have pitched those investors, a "Founders Market" of discounts on third-party products such as Stripe, Intercom, Gusto, Bench, InVision, Carta and WeWork, and a library of more than 80 downloadable documents and templates covering term sheets, cap tables, pitch decks, financial models and NDAs. The company also runs a sister platform, Fundingstack, aimed at emerging-manager VCs, venture studios and investment bankers, and publishes a blog of investor lists and fundraising guidance plus the "How I Raised It" podcast, hosted by CEO Nathan Beckord, which interviews founders and investors about capital raising.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold by subscription directly to founders and investment professionals, with a permanently free Basic tier used as an on-ramp to paid plans and paid add-ons such as the data room.
Tiered subscriptions billed monthly or annually (annual plans carry a 10% discount and auto-renew): Basic at $0, Silver at $745 billed annually, Gold at $1,069 billed annually and Platinum at $1,609 billed annually. Tiers differ mainly by investors allowed per pipeline (75, 200, 1,000 and 1,500 respectively) and by access to features such as investor-update view tracking, data export, scheduled live Zoom calls and AI email generation. The virtual data room is an add-on carrying an additional fee. Accelerators and similar organizations can buy enterprise licenses or supply discount codes for perks pages.
Traction
The company reports use by over 100,000 startups, accelerators, VCs and investment banks globally and cumulative customer fundraising of more than $21 billion since 2016. Its investor database is described as 216,000 investors on the homepage and 227,000 on the pricing page. A 2024 report cited over 2,000 active monthly users and a database of over 140,000 investors. The "How I Raised It" podcast has published more than 320 episodes and shows a 5.0 rating from 115 Apple Podcasts reviews.
Latest developments
Recent blog output includes year-end roundups of newly launched venture funds to pitch in 2026, regional and sector fund guides, AI-oriented fundraising resources such as 135 AI fundraising prompts, and CEO commentary on the tightening and recovery of startup capital; the podcast continues publishing interviews with founders and VCs, most recently with Matt Ober of Social Leverage.
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Market position
Positions itself as an established fundraising software platform serving over 100,000 startups, accelerators, VCs and investment banks worldwide, with customers reported to have raised more than $21 billion since 2016.
Bundles investor discovery, outreach, relationship management and deal closing in one product rather than as separate tools, and adds a warm-introduction finder and crowd-sourced investor profiles with reviews from founders who have pitched those investors.
Technology
Web-based platform combining a proprietary, searchable investor database with contact information, a pipeline CRM, pitch-deck hosting with view analytics, email integration and personalization tokens for bulk outreach, an AI email generation feature, investor update newsletters with view and duration tracking, and a virtual data room.
Go-to-market
Self-serve signup with a free-forever Basic plan requiring no credit card, supported by content marketing (a blog publishing curated lists of venture funds by geography and sector, fundraising guides and templates), the "How I Raised It" podcast, and partnership/enterprise arrangements with accelerators; the sister product Fundingstack is cross-promoted to investors and intermediaries.
Early-stage startup founders raising capital, plus accelerators, venture capital firms, funding advisors, fractional CFOs and investment bankers.
Geography
Serves startups and investors internationally; content and investor lists cover the United States (San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, Miami), Europe (UK, DACH, Nordics, Southern Europe, CEE, Berlin), Latin America and other regions.
History
Foundersuite launched its flagship Investor CRM in 2016 and subsequently expanded the platform to add a large investor database, an investor update tool, pitch deck hosting, bulk email tools, a virtual data room, and products aimed at VCs and investment bankers. It later launched a sister platform, Fundingstack, for emerging-manager VCs, venture studios and investment bankers. Podcast copy from an earlier period cited $2.5 billion raised by users, versus $21 billion in current materials.
Risks & controversies
Publicly stated figures are inconsistent across the company's own pages, with the investor database described as 216,000 investors on the homepage and 227,000 on the pricing page. A third-party report of a $13 million Series A dated August 2024 is not corroborated by the company's own materials in this set.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsFoundersuite operates a sister platform, Fundingstack, targeted at emerging manager VCs, venture studios and investment bankers.
Foundersuite launched its flagship Investor CRM, later expanding into an investor database, investor updates, pitch deck hosting, bulk email, a virtual data room and products for VCs and investment bankers.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Foundersuite do?
- Foundersuite is a fundraising and investor-relations software platform combining an investor database, CRM and deal tools.
- Who founded Foundersuite?
- Foundersuite was founded by Nathan Beckord.
- Who are Foundersuite's investors?
- Foundersuite's investors include Ff Venture Capital.