Intro

Transforming customers and community into owners and advocates™.
$1 Million
$100 Million

why

Purpose Rounds™ are strategic rounds of funding for Women, Historically Excluded, and Impact Founders organized and resourced by Renew VC™.
We are not a Crowdfunding Portal or a Broker-Dealer. We cover the costs associated with a fundraise, wherever you choose to offer it.

Mission

We oversee the process, design the story, pay the vendors, and work with you as the founder to raise from $1M to $100M or more from both Wall Street and Main Street investors.

We cover the costs

All fundraising, done correctly, is expensive. The hard costs for regulatory approval, compliance, and the partners and activities required to be successful can easily be $200k or more.

Founders typically don’t have $200k sitting around and funding via OpEx is not an option. So we cover these expenses up front on your behalf.

We Oversee the process

Any non-accredited offering requires identification of and coordination among a number of vendors. Finding and managing legal counsel, auditors, broker dealers, subscription tech platforms, transfer agents, Edgarizers, marketing firms, Blue Sky filers, and more is a daunting proposition.

We engage and orchestrate vetted industry leaders so you can pursue investment while staying focused on running your business.

We Design The Story

A Purpose Round™ is part investor communication, part marketing, and wholly bespoke. It requires us to understand your brand, your business model, and the broader investment landscape, so that we can design, craft, and tell your story to your ideal audiences.

We work together to develop the most compelling (and accurate) story, branding, and visuals as we build your custom investment page and marketing assets.

Gathering a broad community of investors is exciting, but mobilizing community around Purpose is powerful. There is no limit to what can be achieved when like-minded investors align their values with those of a company and a founder.
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A Platform for Women, Historically Excluded, and Impact Founder.

Renew VC™ is a platform dedicated solely to the resourcing of Women, Historically Excluded, and Impact Founders. We do two things — invest in profitable, scaled Impact; and back founders who have been shut out of funding for reasons other than what they are building.
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An Alternative and Complement to Venture Capital and Private Equity.

High growth companies typically must secure outside capital — often in significant amounts. VC and PE receive most of the attention, but they are often neither a suitable nor a complete solution:

Too Capital Intensive

Many companies have business models that require large or consistent influxes of outside capital. This can be a limiting factor for a VC firm as they might hit their maximum investment thresholds without securing a large enough holding in the company to meet their strategic targets.

Too Lengthy of a Growth Cycle

VC funds are term-bound vehicles — typically 10 to 12 years in length. Of that time, a third can be spent investing, so companies need to begin returning capital within three to six years to be considered successes. Most businesses cannot or should not grow that fast or produce liquidity that quickly.

Non-Favored Business Model

“We don’t invest in hardware.” “We don’t do B2C or DTC.” “We don’t back CPG.” “We won’t touch retail.” There are a myriad of business models that simply don’t fit the VC framework. Yet these models build enormous, global, highly profitable companies all the time. Not only are these approaches suitable for a Purpose Round, most are preferable.

Systemic Inequalities

Entire categories of founders have been summarily excluded from most early stage institutional investment, receiving a mere 1-3% of VC funding despite clear research showing a propensity to manage better, return more capital, and be more resilient than founders more traditionally backed by the industry. These are the kinds of leaders that others want to rally around, support, and invest in — one more example of a meaningful reason to organize a Purpose Round™.

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Purpose Rounds™ in no way exclude Accredited or Institutional Investors. Every founder with whom we collaborate raises money from Accredited and/or Institutional Investors before, during, and after a Purpose Round™.