For Founders
Investors Research You Before You Send the Deck
Before any partner meeting, before any intro call, every serious investor reads what you have published online. If there is nothing to find, the question becomes: why is this founder invisible?
The Problem
A thin profile reads as a risk in due diligence
Every term sheet decision involves a founder bet. Operators, angels, and institutional LPs all know this. What they want to see before a first meeting is signal — evidence that you understand the market deeply, that you have a point of view worth backing, that you are the kind of person who attracts talent and press without being chased.
A thin or absent online presence does not read as modest. In due diligence, it reads as a risk. It leaves the interpretation of who you are entirely to whoever made the intro — and intros are only as strong as their framing. Founders who show up in a partner's feed before the deck arrives start the conversation ahead.
The best technical founders often have the weakest public profiles. You have been heads-down building. That is correct. But the round you are raising will be won or lost partly on conviction in you — and conviction is built over time, not in a single pitch.
The Process
How it works
You talk.
One 30-minute recorded conversation per month. No posts to draft, no threads to schedule.
We build.
We turn it into LinkedIn posts, X/Twitter threads, founder newsletter issues, blog articles, and short-form video — your thinking, your voice, your name.
It goes live.
A consistent founder presence across the platforms where investors, talent, and press look first.
What You Get
One conversation, full founder presence
A founder profile that holds up in due diligence
A public body of work showing market depth, company conviction, and strategic clarity.
Content that attracts inbound from angels and press
Posts that put your name in front of the right people before they hear of you elsewhere.
Talent signalling
Engineering and product candidates research founders before they apply; a strong presence shortens the conversation from weeks to days.
A public articulation of your thesis
Makes every intro more productive because the investor arrives with context, not cold.
Operator credibility outside your network
Particularly valuable when raising from LPs and institutional investors who do not know your local ecosystem.
30 minutes per month, no more
So you stay focused on the company while the presence builds in the background.
“I raised a pre-seed from angels who had been reading my posts for three months before we ever spoke. Two of them reached out directly from LinkedIn. I had been posting sporadically before — BrandForge made it consistent and far more focused than anything I would have written myself. The conversations I have with investors now start in a completely different place.”
Founder & CEO
B2B SaaS, Series A, Berlin
“My co-founder handles the public presence naturally. I am the technical founder and I had essentially zero online presence going into our Series A process. Due diligence kept coming back to questions about me that I could not answer quickly — they wanted to see evidence of my thinking, not just my CV. We started with BrandForge three months before the next raise and the difference was significant. Lead investor mentioned two of my posts in the first meeting.”
CTO
Climate tech startup, Amsterdam
Pricing
Start building your presence
Founders raising or preparing to raise typically start on Growth at €999/month — the full content stack gives you the widest coverage across the platforms investors and press actually use.
One warm intro from an investor who found your content reduces a funding round by weeks of cold outreach.
Not sure? Start with Starter at €299/month