Founder community with fundraising education and market insights
Capital Raise Community: Free Community membership
Capital Raise Community is a private, member-only platform providing structured fundraising education, execution-ready resources, peer insight, and expert commentary. It is built for founders, CEOs, and CFOs who want to treat capital raising as a disciplined business process — not an ad-hoc activity. The Free Community membership gives you access to the core community and foundational course so you can explore the platform and start building your knowledge.
The community is deliberately practical rather than motivational. Discussion is grounded in real situations, moderated, and focused on judgment, trade-offs, and what actually moves decisions. Members share real-time insight on funding markets, investor behaviour, and what is working ...
Outcomes
- Know exactly what a professional capital raise looks like
- Walk into investor conversations better prepared
- Avoid the most common fundraising mistakes early
- Stop navigating your raise in isolation
What's included?
Community Discussions
A private, operator-led space to see market insight, ask questions, discuss investor approaches, and learn from others.
Market Insights
Members share real-time insight on funding markets and investor behaviour — timely, relevant, and grounded in live raises.
Capital Raise Foundations Course
A structured course covering the fundamentals of the capital raise process — what it looks like and how it actually works.
Funder and Advisor Insights
Expert commentary from investors, advisors, and operators who see live processes, real diligence, and real outcomes.
Who is this for?
- Pre-seed and early-stage founders preparing for their first raise
- Founders who want to understand the process before hiring expensive advisors
- CEOs and CFOs looking to run a more disciplined fundraising process
- Teams treating capital raising as a structured business process, not a one-off event
About the creator
Guy Weaver
Founder, Capital Raise Community | Board adviser/ NED | Corporate Finance | 20+ Years | £ 1bn+ Raised | Helping Founders Run Institutional-Grade Capital Raises | AI-Enabled Execution
I spent nineteen years at KPMG as a Chartered Accountant specialising in corporate finance — equity and debt capital raising, M&A advisory, valuation, and transaction execution. After that, I moved to Praetura Ventures as Investment Director, where I...
