The Collective for Startups
Find Advisors, accelerate your impact
At The Collective, we understand the unique challenges startups face on their journey to impact. That’s why we’ve created a platform to help you navigate the world of building a startup, with a specific focus on getting you ready to raise capital. Explore our advisor marketplace, get feedback on your business, and join our community of like-minded changemakers who are taking their startups to the next level.
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Start by building your Venture Profile and share it with your network for free, to collect anonymous and aggregated feedback.
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Explore our Advisor Marketplace and collect valuable feedback on your business helping you reach capital raise readiness.
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Choose from expert-led courses covering topics like fundraising strategies, go-to-market, impact measurement, and sustainable growth.
Join the Waiting List
So what is The Collective?
Build your profile for free with our ‘InvestReady’ modules.
When it comes to fundraising, it’s all about the pitch deck. But how many slides? How should you value the company? Are you talking too much about the product? We’ve asked thousands of investors and created a standardized startup pitch that speaks their language.
Send to our Advisors for feedback
But is your business ready to raise? Do you check off all of the criteria for investors? Have you demonstrated Product Market Fit? The good news is, there are tons of really amazing advisors who are looking for ways to get involved in impactful work. The even better news is, we’ve made it easy for them to join, and even easier for you to connect with them.
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Investor Essentials
Free
Helps you present your business as a venture by categorizing it in a way that aligns with investment mandates of most investors. Articulate your value proposition exactly how investors want to see it.
Profile Essentials
Free
Helps you craft a dynamic and beautiful company profile with all the information that investors desire. Quickly identify where you are lacking and where you may require support from advisors in The Collective. Enables you to articulate what makes you special, unique and worthy of their support.
VizMetrics
Subscribers
Helps you tell your story using the love language of advisors and future investors – quantifiable metrics. Helps you articulate your actual and forecast market traction and growth with simple to build and read financial graphs/charts. Helps you shine light on the critical assumptions you’ve used to come up with your forecasts, to show the quality of your thinking. Business people love this stuff!
NetworkLoop
Free
Helps you invite and get quantifiable, honest feedback on your company profile from friends and acquaintances in your network.
AdvisorMarket
Subscribers
Helps you sort through a network of mission-aligned advisors from around the world.
AdvisorLoop
Subscribers
Helps you get quantifiable, honest feedback on your company profile to make your value proposition razor sharp.
Join the waiting list as a startup
Online Courses
Start and grow a social enterprise following a tested and validated curriculum. This program will guide you through creating a social impact strategy, business model, customer development plans, financial feasibility analysis, and go-to-market strategy.
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In partnership with EarthTech, The Collective offers startups a unique pathway to funding. It’s the perfect synergy of support and opportunity, ensuring that your venture gets the attention and investment it deserves.
Find Your Advisors on The Collective
By joining The Collective, startups gain access to expert advice, tailored feedback, and a supportive community that accelerates their path to fundraising readiness.
Raise Capital on EarthTech.io
When you’re ready to take the next step and start raising capital, seamlessly transition your profile to EarthTech Pro and start getting matched with Investors.