Where agrifood founders come to build and raise.
FTW is a closed, founders-only community — six years of curation turned into the tools, playbooks and relationships that get capital into the best agrifood companies. This is how we partner with the funds, accelerators and family offices around them.
Founders, in their own words.
Members of the FTW community on what the Hub changed for them. — Tap any video to play.
Tap any video to play inline — or watch on YouTube: The Protein Brewery ↗ · $300K raise ↗ · $12M+ raise ↗
One community for founders. A value-creation engine for you.
Newsletter, podcast, invite-only dinners and a closed Hub — all built to help agrifood founders raise. No investors, ever.
Your portfolio keeps asking for intros. FTW does that work — turning your founders into confident fundraisers. No cost, no headcount.
Share a discount with your portfolio, send us who's raising, and — for the right partners — build with us.
Four surfaces, one job: help founders raise.
Every round broken down to lead and follow — naming the VCs, funds and family offices behind it. Verified every week.
Investors explain what they fund and what they check first — plus playbooks from founders who just raised.
Founders and operators only, on the sidelines of the biggest weeks. No pitching, no investors — just trust that turns into relationships.
Database, investor matching, warm-intro mapping, CRM and meeting prep — the operating system for a founder's raise.
Three engines feed one hub.
Each surface earns trust and data on its own. The Hub is where they compound into a raise.
Every round, broken down to lead and follow.
A funding note says a company raised. We say who led, who followed, and who wrote the quiet family-office check — verified every week.
Who priced the round and set the terms.
Who joined on those terms.
Family offices, angels & strategics — often unlisted elsewhere.
↳ An actual issue — every backer tagged Lead or Follow. Human-verified data, uploaded to our database every week.
300+ issues, every Thursday since 2020 · 65%+ open rate · 3,300+ readers
How investors actually think — before you're in the room.
The playbooks of the investors and funds deploying cash in agrifood over the last six months — and the founders who just raised.
Recent guests — and they map to every partner type
What investors analyse early
- Team — and why you
- Technology & technical readiness (TRL)
- Market timing & wedge
- Unit economics at scale
- Regulatory path
- Who's already on the cap table
Docs to have ready
- One-pager & pitch deck
- Data room — cap table, financials, IP
- Technical dossier & TRL evidence
- 18-month plan & use of funds
- Reference & customer list
- The answers to the questions above
Distilled from 100+ conversations with active investors.
Get your fund in front of founders.
A podcast seat — free — plus a written feature on your thesis, and relevant deal flow that matches your mandate. Real exposure to LPs and founders.
The closed workspace where founders run their raise.
One profile — then the Hub replaces every scattered tool a founder uses to raise.
The most accurate agrifood investor dataset, updated weekly. Replaces PitchBook & Crunchbase.
Ranks the 100–200 best-fit investors per company — with the reasoning.
The shortest warm path to any investor, across the team's network.
Every conversation tracked, first touch to term sheet.
The exact first-call questions to expect, by stage.
Point Claude at the Hub over MCP to auto-fill profiles and matches.
An anonymous read: who's actually deploying, and who ghosts.
Monthly off-record fireside with an industry leader.
Closed to investors by design — which is why founders are honest here.
Three ways we work with accelerators, VCs & funds.
A free value-creation team for your portfolio.
Point your founders to FTW and we take on the fundraising legwork — playbooks, warm intros, community. No cost, no headcount.
30% off to share with your portfolio.
Your portfolio gets an exclusive 30% discount on the Hub — a real perk you can offer and a fast on-ramp into the community.
Co-build & white-label.
For the right partners, a white-label extension of what you already give your community. Tell us your founders' three biggest challenges; we build the fix.
Take your founders and deal flow, make them raise-ready, profile your fund on the podcast, and give your portfolio a Hub discount.
Give investors access to the Hub or our data. FTW is not a deal-sourcing platform for investors — it's solely for the community of founders.
Need us to open doors? We book targeted investor meetings for a flat fee — $250–300 per meeting — charged only when a meeting is set, never a success fee.
What partnering looks like for you.
Accelerators
- Give every cohort a fundraising engine after demo day.
- A perk that strengthens your program's pitch.
- Cohorts highlighted to the community.
VCs & Funds
- Offload the endless portfolio intro requests.
- Fresh, qualified deal flow from the community.
- A podcast seat to share your thesis with 3,300+ founders.
Family Offices
- Discreet access to vetted, raising founders.
- Co-investment visibility via lead/follow data.
- A quiet way to build agrifood relationships.
Deliberately focused: we serve roughly 1,200 agrifood companies that have actually raised. Quality over volume — the founders worth backing.
A small team of operators and investors.
People who care about getting capital into the founders building the next generation of food.
Host of the Investment Climate Podcast. Investment Relations at Ayana Bio.
Runs partnerships, operations and go-to-market — numbers-first and fast. The engine behind FTW's shipping pace.
Leads the FoodTech Weekly newsletter — the voice behind six years of curation.
Agricultural Engineer turned operations specialist — across content operations, data management and customer onboarding.