Warm Paths · Founders help founders

You know a fund.a designer.how to raise.
Someone here needs it.

A fund you have a line to. A thing you’ve already been through. A service your company could trade. List one, and the room opens.

See how it works

Warm paths

Open a door to a fund.

A partner you pitched, a fund that backed you, an angel you worked with. A founder matched to them can ask you for the intro.

Founder → you → fund Founderseed, fintech Youknow the partner Alder RowCapital Warm path cold email
Skills

Lend what you’ve been through.

You raised a seed. You hired a designer. You closed your first enterprise deal. Somebody here is doing it for the first time this week.

They pick · you answer Example
Raised a seedHired a designerDeck feedbackFirst eng hireGo-to-marketPricing
Founders here can help with raising a seedFounders here can help with hiring a designerFounders here can help with go-to-market
“First hire is a designer — contract or full-time?”Ask
Service swap

Trade what you build for what you need.

Your company does something. So does theirs. Design hours for a data feed, dev time for a fintech intro — no cash, no invoice.

Swap
NG
Payroll API sandboxIn exchange for: design hours, or a fintech intro
LL
20 hrs product designIn exchange for: an API sandbox, or a seed-deck review
Ships next · after Warm Paths room
The one rule

You have to list something
to ask for something.

That’s the whole deal. One fund, one skill, one service — any of the three, and the room is yours. Most founders don’t know a fund. Most founders know something.

What you can giveOpen to asks
A
Alder Row CapitalFund · Met them
M
Maya R. · Larkspur VenturesPerson · Pitched them
✓
Raised a seedSkill · Seed, 2025
NG
Payroll API sandboxService · for design hours
🔓  You’ve listed 3. Ask is open — paths, skills, swaps.
How an ask works

They ask. You decide.

01

Someone here needs it

A founder is matched to a fund you know, or picks a skill you listed, or wants what your company makes. They see that it exists. Never your name.

02

One sentence

They send their card and one line on what they need. Up to ten open asks at a time on a paid plan, two on the free one, so nobody floods the room.

03

Yes, or pass

Yes puts you both in a chat. Pass sends no reason and no name. Nothing happens without you.

What a founder sees

A fit with a door in it.

Every founder on AdPerch gets a board of funds that fit their raise. Most of those doors are cold. This is the one that isn’t.

Example

Alder Row Capital

Seed · Fintech, infra · SF
Strong fit
Backs pre-revenue fintech infra with a technical founder. Your thesis and theirs overlap on payments rails.
✓ Stage✓ Sectors
Warm path · A founder here knows this fundAsk for a path
Add to pipeline·Apply·Similar funds
  • ◐

    Your name, only on your yes

    They see that a founder here knows the fund, never your name. You see their company card and one sentence. Your name crosses only when you say yes.

  • ✕

    Funds are never told

    Your relationship stays yours. AdPerch never messages the fund about your path.

  • ⇄

    It runs both ways

    Your board has cold doors too. Somebody here knows one of them.

  • $0

    Free, and it stays free

    Every AdPerch account includes Community. No card, no company needed.

Founders help founders

List one thing.
The room opens.

A fund, a skill, or a swap. Town Square, the co-founder pool and Percy come with it.

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Founders in the open — who is building what. You choose what of yours appears there, one thing at a time.

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Browse founders looking for the other half of their team. Saying something is the Co-founder Matching plan.

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Gigs and talent: startups post what they need, people post what they offer.