New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Where should I go to look for Investors?
Ask HN: Where should I go to look for Investors?
2 by vednig | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hope you're doing fine. I'm Ved, I'm a 20 year old founder who is working on DoShare Cloud we launched our first tool this year in March which received a significant interest from the internet community. We understood there was a problem in the market that nobody was looking at, so we identified the problem and built a solution(partially built still needs a lot of features to be generally usable) we validated the idea with waitlist got a lot of feedback, but we were moving very fast we burned through a lot of cash fast. Which in turn let to delayed salary which stopped a lot of work(new features) and impacted the overall momentum of direction product line was headed in. After successful launch of DoShare Personal Cloud we were hit by payment gateway issues(Stripe is invite-only here - I messaged them multiple times) We're now just initial founders and one person still working on the product but we want to grow the product line to enterprise users and we have a plan to tap and disrupt the market. But we're lacking the capital to do so. We can only support current users now, after our PG(Cashfree) without any reasonable communication stopped recurring payments for the service. We're now in requirement of capital to keep us on the trajectory for the next year. We're now looking to launch our service for Enterprises and Startups in Jan 25(prev. scheduled for Nov 24) I've applied to YC(twice), Founders Inc and few other incubators and schools, but have either received rejection or have been left hanging till now. Where or how could I find investors, to raise funds in a tight frame of time? PS: I've prev. built and scaled some small indie tools and products but this is the first time I'm running a start up at this scale. (thank you in advance) Some Stats about DoShare Personal Cloud - we achieved in 2024 while bootstrapped: - Got 100+ users on our first launch waitlist within 8 hours - Scaled upto 30 monthly paid users in 3 months - Reimagined the future of cloud storage - Received verbal interest from 3 out of 5 startups I pitched to - 40+ users on Discord + 15+ stars on our Desktop App's OpenSource Repo + Several experiments we did with AI
2 by vednig | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hope you're doing fine. I'm Ved, I'm a 20 year old founder who is working on DoShare Cloud we launched our first tool this year in March which received a significant interest from the internet community. We understood there was a problem in the market that nobody was looking at, so we identified the problem and built a solution(partially built still needs a lot of features to be generally usable) we validated the idea with waitlist got a lot of feedback, but we were moving very fast we burned through a lot of cash fast. Which in turn let to delayed salary which stopped a lot of work(new features) and impacted the overall momentum of direction product line was headed in. After successful launch of DoShare Personal Cloud we were hit by payment gateway issues(Stripe is invite-only here - I messaged them multiple times) We're now just initial founders and one person still working on the product but we want to grow the product line to enterprise users and we have a plan to tap and disrupt the market. But we're lacking the capital to do so. We can only support current users now, after our PG(Cashfree) without any reasonable communication stopped recurring payments for the service. We're now in requirement of capital to keep us on the trajectory for the next year. We're now looking to launch our service for Enterprises and Startups in Jan 25(prev. scheduled for Nov 24) I've applied to YC(twice), Founders Inc and few other incubators and schools, but have either received rejection or have been left hanging till now. Where or how could I find investors, to raise funds in a tight frame of time? PS: I've prev. built and scaled some small indie tools and products but this is the first time I'm running a start up at this scale. (thank you in advance) Some Stats about DoShare Personal Cloud - we achieved in 2024 while bootstrapped: - Got 100+ users on our first launch waitlist within 8 hours - Scaled upto 30 monthly paid users in 3 months - Reimagined the future of cloud storage - Received verbal interest from 3 out of 5 startups I pitched to - 40+ users on Discord + 15+ stars on our Desktop App's OpenSource Repo + Several experiments we did with AI
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