We Founder Circle (WFC), a founders led early stage startup investment platform, have closed their first year with 33 startup investments to emerge as the second largest early stage investor of the year. The platform has become one of the fastest-growing angel network communities and has already facilitated funds worth US$ 20 million across 33 startups.
Established in August 2020, WFC is a global community of over 2000 founders and strategic angels from over 16 countries that provides seed funding, strategic business partnerships, and global networking opportunities to entrepreneurs in their early stages. Thus, ensuring a 360-degree support system of investment, business and community.
“Gaurav VK Singhvi, and I, together have invested in 105 startups in the last five years. I understand that, as an investor, you need to go beyond just providing the capital support, and need to mentor a budding startup on the business front too. Following this, we started WFC with an aim to help new startups connect with strategic angels and founders of renowned startups like Beardo, Zypp Electric, Dineout etc.,” explains Neeraj Tyagi, Co-Founder and CEO, We Founder Circle.
“With WFC, we want to open avenues for startup investments from Tier II and Tier III cities and encourage the burgeoning start-up community. Coming from Surat, I understand that the local business community and SMEs have a lot of interest to join the mainstream business investment bringing both capital and years of experience as value addition to startups,” affirms Gaurav VK Singhvi, Co-founder, WFC.