Raising money for early-stage ventures is a grind. Too often, promising entrepreneurs give up, or give up too much.
We want to change that.
Our Approach:
Using donated capital – free from expectations of market-rate returns – Willowseed provides flexible, customized, low-cost financing so that entrepreneurs and small businesses can focus their energy where it’s most needed: growing ventures that benefit their customers and their communities.
We especially like working with ventures and entrepreneurs that:
- Aren’t (necessarily) seeking hockey stick growth
- Don’t fit commercial underwriting terms or process
- Don’t have friends, family, or collateral that can back them up
- Don’t look, talk, or act like entrepreneurs who are familiar to impact funders
- Do have sustainability or social benefit embedded into their outcomes