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Fundraising playbooks, market signals, product updates, and (soon) founder stories — written by the PocketFund team and the operators behind the platform.
What we're thinking about this week.
The 18-signal matching engine: how PocketFund scores founder ↔ investor fit
An inside look at the heuristics, taxonomies, and feedback loops that drive every match score on PocketFund — from thesis to check size to co-investor density.
Read article →From dorm room to $1.4M seed: how Stellar Labs raised in 12 days
Priya Raman walks through the deck, the data room, the conversations, and the negotiation tactics that turned 47 investor views into a closed round.
Read article →Q1 2026 funding pulse: where micro-VCs are deploying right now
We analysed 1,400 cheques written through PocketFund this quarter. Vertical AI is up 38%, ClimateTech is back, and pre-seed cheque sizes are quietly creeping past $750K.
Read article →The investor data-room checklist that closes 70% faster
Cap table, financial model, customer references, security review — every artefact serious investors want to see, in the order they want to see it.
Read article →Sub-accounts for syndicates: now you can run an SPV under your firm
Investors at multi-strategy funds can now spin up sub-profiles with their own thesis, deployment, and team — without leaving the parent account.
Read article →Why we stopped showing investor cheque sizes by default
Anchoring is real. Here's how we redesigned the negotiation flow to put founder asks first, investor counters second — and what happened to close rates.
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