WHAT WE DO FOR FOUNDERS

Fictive’s Support for Founders

This is How We Help Our Founders

Founder Community

Fictive holds workshops, deep dives, and social events, creating a community space for our founders to grow together.

Co-investment Opportunities

Fictive Founders, who become accredited through the growth of their ventures, can co-invest in Fictive deals alongside the fund.

Startup Community Connections

We facilitate connections for our founders to other stakeholders in the startup community that can help our founders incubate and scale their ideas. This includes potential advisors, contractors, teammates, peers, specialists, partners, investors, and more

Tech Tools & Credits

We partner to provide Fictive founders discounted and free access to needed technology to support their scale.

Jobs & Recruiting

We help our founders fill key roles as they build their teams.

Executive Support

Fictive engages with fractional executive specialists across the Operational, Marketing, Financial, Technical, and Product spaces to offer specific strategic support to founders to build good foundations for scaleable companies with their innovative ideas.

Mentorship

Each Fictive founder will be assigned a long-term mentor with relevant experience in their industry to help guide their growth.

Angel Investments

We facilitate pitches for our founders to our LP network for additional capital.

Mental Health Support

Entrepreneurship is hard, and Fictive supports founders at every level. We offer therapy support and group therapy sessions to ensure that our founders are whole and well in order to scale their companies.

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 $150K initial checks at pre-seed to seed stage

If you are a founder looking for investment from Fictive Fund, please fill out an application - all founders aligned with our mission are welcome to apply regardless of race, gender, or any other protected class.

Founder FAQs

  • 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.