TRAVIS BRODEEN / FUNDRAISING OPERATOR / EST. FIRST RAISE 1996
I turncrowdsinto capital.
$300M+ raised for 200+ startups. First $10M at 22. Fundraising isn't magic. It's a machine, and I've spent thirty years building it.
▲ LIVE: 400,000 INVESTORS. ONE MACHINE. YOUR ROUND IS THE TARGET_
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RAISED FOR FOUNDERS
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CAMPAIGNS RUN END-TO-END
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INVESTORS BROUGHT TO THE TABLE
// THE RAISE DIAGNOSTIC
Should you raise? Most founders aren't ready.
Seven questions, two minutes, scored against 200+ real campaigns. Get your readiness score and the playbook that matches it.
// THE RECEIPTS
Founders don't need another advisor. They need someone who's sat in their chair.
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First raise: $10M at twenty-two
Dotcom years, my own company, no track record and no safety net. That raise taught me more about investor psychology than any book since, and it's why I have zero patience for fundraising theory from people who've never wired a payroll.
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$3K to $1.2M a month, in one quarter
In 2011 I bootstrapped a company from three thousand dollars to over $1.2M in monthly revenue within its first quarter. Growth isn't a mystery when you've done it with no budget and no permission.
03
#21 fastest-growing company in America
In 2012 the company I ran as CTO ranked #21 on the Inc 500. Starting the fire is one skill. Keeping the systems, the team, and the technology from melting while it burns is another. I've done both.
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A record that still stands
I ran the raise for the highest-valuation pre-revenue company to ever pull $5M through crowdfunding. The story and the community did the work, which is the whole point. That client went public on NASDAQ.
05
Crowdigy: $300M+ and counting
My team has run 200+ campaigns end to end. Eight-figure rounds, stalled raises rescued mid-campaign, first-time founders with zero network. Every major funding platform knows us, because we keep showing up with closed rounds.
30 YRS
OF SKIN IN THE GAME
> Most fundraising advice comes from people who've never missed payroll. Every lesson I sell, I paid for with my own money.
I started as a founder in the dotcom years, raising real money before I was old enough to rent a car. Some of it went brilliantly. Some of it taught me lessons the expensive way. All of it happened with my own name on the line, which is the only kind of experience I trust, and the only kind I sell.
Along the way I was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, working inside Microsoft and the Fortune 50: IBM, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Walmart. I keep that résumé in a drawer. It means nobody can hand-wave a technology story past me, and it taught me how the people writing big checks actually think. But it's not why founders call.
They call because I never left the founder's side of the table. I took a company to the top of the Inc 500. I helped put startup investing in the hands of 400,000 everyday people. And for the last decade I've done exactly one thing: get founders funded. $300M+ closed, most of it for people who were told to wait their turn.
I've been the founder with ninety days of runway. If that's you, we should talk.
// WHERE I WORK NOW
Three ways in. Pick a door.
You're only one raise away...
Raising in the next twelve months?
Every week you wait is momentum you don't have. Tell my team what you're building and we'll show you what your raise should actually look like.