WHAT WE DO FOR FOUNDERS

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Support for Founders

This is How We Help Our Founders

Founder Community

Fictive hosts workshops, deep dives, and social events to create a strong founder community where you can learn, share, and grow together.

Co-investment

As your company grows and you become accredited, you can co‑invest in Fictive deals alongside the fund to build your own investing track record.

Startup Community

We connect founders with investors, advisors, talent, vendors, specialists, and partners who can help incubate, launch, and scale their startups.

Tech Tools & Credits

Fictive partners with leading providers to give founders discounted or free access to the technology needed to build and scale efficiently.

Jobs & Recruiting

Fictive helps you identify gaps, define roles, and source candidates who fit both the responsibilities and your culture, using structured evaluation so you can hire with confidence.

Executive Support

We connect founders with fractional executives in operations, marketing, finance, technology, and product to lay strong foundations and turn ambitious ideas into scalable companies.

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Mentorship

Every Fictive founder is paired with a long‑term mentor who has relevant industry experience and can provide practical guidance over time.

Angel Investments

We facilitate curated pitch opportunities to our LP network so founders can access additional angel capital.

Mental Health Support

Entrepreneurship is demanding, so Fictive offers therapy resources and group support sessions to help founders stay well while they build.

How To Pitch Us?

We invest in Idea+, pre-seed, and seed-stage opportunities:

Idea+: $25K or $50K check, pre-MVP
Pre-seed+: $50K to $250K at pre-seed to seed stage

We back founders at the idea stage and beyond—before you have traction, before you have a team, sometimes before you have an MVP. If you're aligned with our mission and ready to build, apply now.

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Hattie

Pitch coaching for founders

Hattie is a free AI pitch coaching tool for founders. You have a conversation about your company across four dimensions (product, ecosystem, business model, team), and Hattie pushes back on vague answers, names where investors will probe hardest, and gives you a written summary of your biggest open question and what to work on.

Takes 10-15 minutes.

Built on the evaluation framework we use at Fictive Ventures. Hattie is not connected to our investment pipeline or CRM. It's a coaching tool, not an application.

Start a session with Hattie

Tipping Hattie: Hattie is free to use. Each session delivers a personalized AI coaching conversation and a written summary based on your specific company and answers. After your session, if the coaching was useful, you can tip Hattie by buying her a coffee. Tips are optional. Every founder receives the full session and summary regardless of payment.

Founder FAQs

This section answers common questions about check sizes, evaluation, industry and geographic focus, timing, preparation, follow‑on capital, and who Fictive invests in.

  • We have two paths to funding, Idea+ and Pre-seed+. For Idea+, these are typically pre-MVP and our initial checks are between $25K or $50K, for a fixed amount of equity or are done using a financial instrument known as a Convertible Income Share Agreement (CISA). You can read more about CISAs below.

    For founders who are a further along, our Pre-seed+ path is aimed at writing initial checks in pre-seed or seed stage funding rounds. These checks range from. $50K to $250K.

  • Investing early means we are betting on the founder. We look for founders with grit, the ability to execute with velocity, and who have demonstrated a deep understanding of their industries through lived experiences, academic pursuits, or professional achievements. This experience should enable you to identify unique opportunities and develop innovative solution. We look for evidence that you have or can gain significant traction in the market, but really, we’re betting on you.

  • We are sector agnostic, but we generally do not invest in crypto-tokens, life sciences, drug development, gambling.

  • We invest in startups organized in the US, but they may operate globally. We are particularly interested in finding breakthrough opportunities outside the main centers of startup activity

  • You have a mature idea for a compelling solution that you can build and deploy to real customers — and you have evidence that it is scaleable. You do not have to have built it yet. We will invest in pre-minimum viable product (MVP) opportunities. These opportunities are usually considered as part of the Idea+ funding path, which writes $25K or $50K checks for a fixed amount of equity or invests using the CISA.

  • No. We expect and prefer to be the first investor for extremely early stage ventures.

  • We aim to make final investment decisions in less than 4 weeks

  • You should clearly and concisely describe your idea and the potential market opportunity. A pitch deck is nice but not required. You do not have to have formed a company yet.

  • We are very selective about follow-on investments and only provided the company demonstrates a compelling trajectory. We expect to make follow-on investments in less than 30% of our portfolio. Note that as a small fund, we can’t make follow-on investments in every portfolio company, and even if we do not, we will help you engage with other investors, if appropriate.

  • Reach out to us using this form.

  • Fictive does not make investment decisions that exclude any legally protected classes. We invest in founders who are aligned with our mission.