Capital Engine · Founding Firm

Get in front of accredited investors every month — or your money back.

Flat monthly distribution for firms raising capital.

I promote your webinars and deals to my accredited investor audience through sponsored media placement, hand you the investors who raise their hand, and never touch your raise. You put down a refundable deposit — and you don’t pay a monthly dollar until 10 investors sign up.

$500 / month founding rate
1,100+
Investor audience
$500/mo
Flat founding rate
10
Signups before you pay
$0
Cut of your raise
The Problem

You run the raise. I bring the room.

You’re great at finding and operating deals. You were never supposed to be a media company.

So most firms rent attention instead — cold ads, cold lists, investors who don’t know you and don’t wire. The result is always the same: impressions that don’t convert and a raise that closes slow.

What you actually need is a room full of real, accredited people who raised their hand — and a clean way to hand them into your own deal.

That’s the entire product. It’s advertising and software. It is not a placement-agent engagement, not investment advice, and not participation in a securities transaction.

Founding firm terms

$500/month

Put down a refundable deposit. I start promoting your webinars the same week.

The fee is flat. It never changes based on capital raised, wires, introductions, investor signups, or completed investments.

What’s Included

Every month, as a founding firm, you get the whole raising channel — always on.

The investors who raise their hand

When an accredited investor registers for your webinar, moves your deal to Connect, or asks for an intro, I hand you their name and a way to reach them. Real, opted-in demand you can follow up on — not a locked count.

Founding-firm priority placement

When your deal fits an investor’s plan, you’re placed first — ahead of firms that fit them equally well, clearly marked as a founding placement. Fit always comes first: I never push a weaker-fit deal ahead of a stronger one, and you can’t buy your way into a plan you don’t match.

Your webinar, packed by my audience

You host and moderate your own investor webinar. I promote it to my accredited audience through the calendar, the weekly roundup, and dedicated sends, and fill the seats.

Sponsored media placement

When your offering and materials permit it, I distribute your recorded or upcoming content as clearly labeled sponsored media placement — so your raise stays in front of investors between webinars.

A demand dashboard you can see

Watch demand move stage by stage — viewed, considered, saved, in conversation. For the first time your raise is measurable, with aggregate analytics and opt-in investor information requests, even when wires are slow.

Evergreen education placement

A permanent educational slot in front of investors learning your asset class — so the audience arrives already understanding what you do.

The Value Stack

Here’s what each lever would cost you to buy on its own. Every person on the other end is accredited, already on the platform to deploy capital, and — for the intros — raised their hand.

  • The investors who raise their hand + direct calendar booking$6,000
  • Always-on sponsored placement + founding-firm priority among equal-fit deals$4,000
  • Your live investor webinar, promoted to my accredited audience$3,000
  • Evergreen education-catalog placement$1,500
  • Total value~$14,500

The demand dashboard, aggregate analytics, and opt-in investor information requests ship with it — the tools to manage and close the demand, no extra charge.

~$14,500 of channel and tools, for $500/month — and you don’t pay it until 10 accredited investors sign up for your webinar.

One investor commitment of $50,000–$100,000 pays for years of the subscription. This was never a cost-per-month decision. It’s a cost-per-raise decision.

Founding Bonuses

Say yes as one of the first 20 firms and these come with it — each one removes a reason to say no.

Your first promoted room in 14 days

Kills: “How long until I see anything?”

Your first webinar goes on the promotion calendar within two weeks of signing. You see real demand fast — no months-long ramp.

My LinkedIn push on your deal$2,000 value

Kills: “Your list is too small for my raise.”

I put your deal in front of my own LinkedIn audience on top of the email list. More qualified eyes, zero extra work from you.

Six-month homepage rotation

Kills: “Will anyone actually see me?”

A rotating spot on the homepage for your first six months, as promotion capacity allows — the highest-traffic real estate I control.

Every Month
  • Your webinar promoted to my accredited audience through the calendar, roundup, and dedicated sends
  • Sponsored media placement and clearly labeled founding-firm placement — first among the deals an investor already fits, never ahead of a better-matched deal
  • The investors who raised their hand, handed to you with a way to reach them
  • A demand dashboard with aggregate analytics and opt-in investor information requests
How It Works
1

Book a call

We confirm your firm fits, your offering can be promoted, and the sponsored distribution scope. No self-serve securities sale happens here.

2

Put down a refundable deposit

A refundable deposit reserves your founding spot and starts the promotion. It’s fully refundable any time before your subscription activates.

3

I fill your room

I promote your webinars and deals to my accredited audience. Your subscription starts only once 10 investors have signed up — until then, you’ve paid no monthly fee.

4

You run the offering

You control the webinar, the materials, investor verification, subscription documents, and the funds. I route consented information requests to your team and never participate in the transaction.

Media is sponsored and firm-controlled. I help distribute your firm-hosted webinars and recordings, but you approve the content and stay responsible for the offering, disclosures, and exemption posture.
Why Now

Founding firms lock the early rate.

I’m opening this to 20 founding firms. You lock $500/month for as long as you stay subscribed, while the audience and the distribution system are still growing. The published rate steps up as the audience grows — new firms pay the higher rate, and you don’t.

The quiet market is the cheap time to build the lane.

The capital didn’t leave — it rotated toward income, debt, and cash flow. The firms who keep showing up to investors now own the relationships when the money re-deploys. Build the pipeline before capital comes back, not after.

The boundary is the product

I won’t promise you’ll raise a dollar — anyone who does is lying to you. So I don’t guarantee dollars. I prove the channel before you pay for it.

The deposit-to-activation guarantee. Put down a refundable deposit. I start promoting your webinars to my accredited audience right away. Once 10 accredited investors sign up, your subscription activates at $500/month and the deposit becomes your first month. If we don’t hit 10 signups, you get your deposit back. You saw real demand before a single monthly dollar left your account.

I guarantee the things you can see and track — real signups from real accredited investors, driven to your webinar. I don’t promise dollars raised or investors closed: that’s your deal, your pitch, your follow-up. And I stay neutral on your deal toward investors — I promote your webinar to my audience, I never tell them to invest.

Claim a founding seat

$500/month founding rate · refundable deposit first · no percentage of capital raised

No self-serve securities sale happens here. We confirm your offering posture, sponsored content scope, and opt-in workflow on the call before anything activates.

Common Questions
A flat monthly marketing and software subscription: sponsored distribution, webinar promotion, sponsored media placement, calendar and email placement, a demand dashboard with aggregate analytics, and opt-in investor information requests. The fee is not based on capital raised or investments completed.
No, on both counts. You own the offering, the subscription process, investor verification, documents, follow-up, and the funds. I don’t recommend the offering, negotiate terms, handle money, or participate in securities transactions — and I never take a percentage of what you raise. Investors wire directly into your own fund.
You can’t buy fit, and you can’t outrank a deal that fits an investor better than yours. What a founding firm gets is placement first among the deals an investor already fits equally well, always clearly labeled as a founding placement. It’s amplification of a deal that already matches — never a recommendation, and never a way to appear in a plan you don’t fit.
You put down a refundable deposit to reserve your founding spot and start the promotion. It’s fully refundable any time before your subscription activates. The subscription only starts once 10 accredited investors have signed up for your webinar — if we don’t hit 10, you get the deposit back.
Only when an investor affirmatively requests information from your firm or consents to share details — they opted in by raising their hand. Otherwise the analytics you see are in aggregate. I don’t sell individual investor identities.
Not for public, deal-specific solicitation. If an offering can’t be generally solicited, I limit public promotion, and your firm stays responsible for confirming the correct exemption with your counsel.
A firm profile, materials you’re cleared to distribute, a clear offering posture, and your own subscription and investor-onboarding flow. I don’t replace your legal, compliance, verification, or fund-administration process. Cancel any time after activation — your free firm page stays listed; Capital Engine is the optional sponsored distribution layer on top.