Finta
Founder InstituteA four-week Finta Fundraising Academy sprint for Founder Institute alumni preparing to raise pre-seed or seed capital. Build your narrative, data room, model, target list, warm intro map, and outreach, all inside Finta with Aurora.
A tactical fundraising masterclass on venture capital that gives you the knowledge, tools, and work environment to accelerate. Each week you build real fundraising materials inside your Finta workspace, so your raise is organized and ready before you go out.
Each session pairs tactical fundraising education with hands-on work inside Finta. Live on Wednesdays with Kevin Siskar. You finish ready to open your raise with real momentum.
Define your round strategy, fundraising goals, target investor profile, and core narrative. Understand how venture investors evaluate early stage companies before outreach begins.
Prepare the materials investors expect to review. Organize your data room, sharpen your financial model, and get ahead of the diligence questions of a pre-seed or seed raise.
Build your investor pipeline and map warm intro pathways. Prioritize investors by stage, sector, geography, check size, thesis fit, and relationship path.
Launch your outreach process and manage momentum. Investor emails, first meetings, follow-up, and creating urgency toward commitments.
Four live Wednesday sessions with Kevin, plus focused work on your own raise in between. Plan for roughly five to twelve hours a week, as much or as little as your raise needs.
Work on your raise in real time, week to week. You make real progress through the sprint, then launch your outreach campaign together in the final session.
Hundreds of additional resources to go further on your own. Research, reading, and recommended material to ramp your round as quickly as possible.
Finta helps you find and work the connections that actually move a raise, without turning anyone's network into a spam list. You leave with two networks working for you.
By Founder InstituteFounders who finish the sprint can request access to the Founder Institute mentor and director network, 35,000+ strong, through Finta Networks. Access is permissioned and subject to review.
The Portfolio Success approach applies: connections cannot be forced. It is your job to generate interest, follow up, close the meeting, and build the relationship. Our job is to give you the best possible process and advice to make those connections.
By FintaYou already know more investors than you think. Finta surfaces the paths hiding in the relationships you have.
Investor matching and intro requests are subject to eligibility, network permissions, and review. No funding or introductions are guaranteed.
Kevin Siskar · Co-Founder & CEO, Finta
“Founder Institute helped you build the company. I want to help you run the raise.”
Kevin led Founder Institute NYC for five years, helping hundreds of founders get to the starting line. He went on to invest over $10M as a Managing Director at 43North, then built Finta to open up capital access for founders everywhere. He is a pre-seed investor at Firehouse Ventures, has backed 160+ early stage companies, hosts the Ambition Today podcast, and co-founded the NYC Innovation Collective. His work has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and Entrepreneur.
Unlike many online webinars or courses, this series has proven to be tight, to the point, and very clear on how to advance to the next steps.
For many first time founders, this is essential.
Kevin's startup content and insights are top rate. Highly recommend.
Kevin provided an in-depth walkthrough of the fundraising process and showed how to leverage Finta to support it. The session was highly interactive.
Kevin does a great job giving real-life guidance and tools to founders in the fundraising process. A true step-by-step guide.
A great course to take, applying what you learn each week to your fundraise. Plus, you get a much clearer understanding of how to better use the Finta platform.
An awesome course for anyone prepping for a fundraise, regardless of stage. The presentations were digestible and the homework broke things into manageable chunks.
Kevin knows what he's talking about. Having raised from angels and friends before, I still found his course indispensable for the insider knowledge of how fundraising actually works.
I recently completed this course and it was excellent. Kevin took us step by step through building a pitch deck, identifying investors, and pitching them. Incredibly informative and easy to follow.
A great course, not just for startups raising capital now, but for those that will in the future. Kevin does a great job sharing real industry insight.
Tell us about your company and your raise. If you are eligible, we will set up your Founder Institute fundraising workspace in Finta and send your Academy session invites.
Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, with a global community that helps founders build real companies. Finta is where the modern raise runs: your materials, pipeline, warm paths, and outreach in one workspace. Bringing them together gives Founder Institute alumni the best of both worlds, the community and structure that built your company plus the system that runs your raise.
Yes. Your Finta workspace is the core of the experience. Live sessions and recordings may run on Maven, but the fundraising process itself lives in Finta.
No introductions are guaranteed. Finta helps you prepare your materials, organize your pipeline, map warm pathways, and generate intro requests. Any investor or mentor introductions are permissioned and subject to review.
Bring your company website, your current deck if you have one, your target raise amount, your round timeline, and any existing investor list or outreach history.
Sessions are recorded when possible, and you can keep working through the assignments in your Finta workspace on your own schedule.
The sprint is optimized for pre-seed and seed founders. Later stage founders can still benefit, but the core curriculum is built around early stage fundraising preparation and execution.
This page is for Founder Institute alumni access. Other founders can join through Finta Academy or future public Finta programs.
Claim your Founder Institute alumni access, set up your Finta workspace, and start preparing your investor pipeline with structure and momentum.
Claim Your Founder Institute SeatAug 12 to Sept 9, 2026 · 100% virtual · Live with Kevin Siskar