Connect the dots faster with a community

The Mercury Raise founder community is a space to pool learnings, access exclusive events, and get support.
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The founder community that fits in your calendar

Connect on your schedule

Engage the way that works for you. Whether you prefer to drop in async or attend live events, you’re welcome however your schedule allows.

Meet high-quality founders and mentors

Members and experts are vetted and curated by the Mercury team to ensure all participants are relevant and additive.

Combine forces with other founders

Get direction and arrive at answers faster by pooling the collective knowledge and expertise of the community.

Compare notes, scale smarter, and find community

Get on the list for invite-only events

  • Get feedback on your pitch via workshops
  • Enter the virtual offices of industry experts
  • Tune into live AMAs with leaders in your industry
  • Take part in moderated discussions
  • Drop in on the Raise team’s office hours for support
Examples of expert sessions and virtual pitch review events with experts/mentors.

Get high returns on your time invested

Tune into a variety of live sessions with experts and moderated async discussions on Slack — when and how it works for you.

Image showing that you can join exclusive expert session events, with the option to ask questions to the experts/mentors.

Expand your inner circle by joining small groups

Meet with founders who share the same focus areas as you, from pre-seed and seed fundraising, building a minimum viable product, go-to-market strategies, and finding product-market fit.

Referential messaging platform UI, showing the different small group channels that can be joined: fundraising: pre-seed, fundraising: seed, GTM, and minimum viable product.

Overheard on Slack

I like that we can share common pain points and learnings on our journeys.

Tom

Founder

Sendablast

Startup

Being a founder is an endurance, knowledge-acquisition, and morale challenge. The Mercury Raise founder community helps with all three, and I’d recommend it to any early-stage founding team.

Quimby

Founder

Confection

Data startup

It is a lonely job to be a founder and this community is the closest one gets to a combo of advice, therapy, and help.

Anonymous

I have had so many great conversations and I have received very good resources from other founders.

Anonymous

Connecting with founders and other minds is very powerful, it helps me feel part of a group of people like me. Makes me work harder!

Anonymous

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Your questions, answered

We’re glad you asked. To get started, you’ll provide us with some basic info about yourself, your company, and why you’re interested in joining. This helps us to build the community to better serve founders’ top priorities. Once you submit, give us a few days to review your application and send you an invite. This should land in your inbox within a week.

We encourage founders of pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies to join the founder Slack community if they are interested in sharing their insights, stories, and support as they scale their companies.

We will match participants into groups of 8–10 based on current priorities and goals — for example, founders searching for PMF, focused on raising capital, or planning to scale. We will do our best to avoid placing direct competitors in the same group.

Yes, it’s completely free.

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Disclaimers and footnotes

    Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.