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FirstLook for Founders
Your 🚀➜ 📦➜ Investors
Have your product and pitch deck sent directly to investors obsessed with consumer brands.
Getting Started
How it Works
Step one
Submit your brand
We’re looking for the basics so we can learn your brand and see where you’re headed.
Step Two
Let’s talk
We’ll follow up for a deeper conversation. If everything checks out, we’ll put you in the next box shipping out.
Step Three
You connect
After investors experience your brand, we connect you to those interested in learning about you and your company.
“Being selected to the FirstLook box was an incredible opportunity for Moment and led to several conversations with leading investors and startup advisors—some of whom subsequently invested. The experience was super valuable for a young brand like us.”
“FirstLook was an amazing opportunity for us! It is an incredibly efficient way to connect investors who already have samples, saving us from losing a week to ten days in the conversation process! Highly recommend FirstLook to all founders interested in getting their brand and product in the hands of consumer investors.”
DUE DILIGENCE
What We Look For
Team
We like diverse, agile teams who have a questionably delusional passion for changing the world. Major 🔑- Can you make decisions quickly?
Product-Market Fit
“…you can always feel product-market fit when it’s happening. The customers are buying the product just as fast as you can make it.” -Marc Andreessen
Traction
Traction is great, but you know what’s better? Understanding the levers a startup can pull to change their business. This speaks volumes to operational IQ.
Market Opportunity
We like it when founders are well read and see patterns before everyone else. They’re playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
Helping Others
Philanthropy and/or sustainability should be a cornerstone. If a brand isn’t doing more than returning shareholder value, they’re going in the wrong direction.
X-Factor
Gravity- you can feel it, you know it’s there, but it’s incredibly hard to describe. Incredible founders have an X-Factor that becomes the gravity to pull everything together.
Our Subscribers
Who Gets a Box?
FirstLook subscribers include Angels, VCs, Family Offices, Syndicates, and Talent Agencies including CAA and Endeavor. Everyone is carefully vetted to ensure they can provide the right capital and strategic value brands need to grow.
FirstLook Investors write checks between $10,000 – $750,000, and have invested in over 700 startups spanning first-check in through Series B.
They also provide access to networks of investors, distributors, retail buyers, manufacturers, influencers, other so many other unique opportunities.
A FEW PAST INVESTMENTS BY OUR SUBSCRIBERS
Our Expertise
Why FirstLook
We understand your time, energy, and resources are precious. You have better things to do than spend months wandering down ‘Investor Lane’ shaking a cup for money.
You are certainly capable of doing that, but is it the best use of your time? No. Every minute fundraising is a minute taken away from building your dream company. And in the end, it’s all just a battle against the clock.
That’s why we started FirstLook to help founders raise quicker, work more efficiently, and get back to building so you can be the hero of their story.
Funding
Connect with investors who believe in you, and want to see your vision reach fruition.
Efficiency
Time and money saved = a better shot at building your dream company.
Sales
We put your brand on the map so you hear “Oh yeah, I’ve heard of you!” way too often.
Working Together
Jumping in a Box
Startups who make it in a box (congrats!) enjoy all of the following…
- Your products sent to a bunch of chatty investors who love consumer brands
- Notes highlighting how they’re the next big thing!
- Your brand shared with additional investors via our private email list
- Features in our newsletter and Instagram to drive awareness and sales
- Lifetime intros to key people from our network who can help you flourish
- Access to private resources and community of venture backed founders
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