We helped launch over a million startups
This is what we do.
Mission
What if anyone could launch a startup?
- (Really... anyone).
- What if all it took to launch a startup was an idea and the willingness to go do something incredible?
- What if all of the dumb stuff that makes 90% of startups fail could just... go away?
- What would the world look like with hundreds of millions of Founders who get to do exactly what they're passionate about?
- How many wildly innovative products would there be?
- How much more empowered would people feel?
- What happens when everyone is finally only limited by their imagination?
- For us, that's not a "What if?"
- We're in the business of breaking down all of the barriers that prevent startups from launching and causing them to fail.
- We're in the business of no longer leaving Founders lonely, frustrated, and under-resourced.
- We are in the business of launching startups.
- We're Startups.com. This is what we do.
Leadership
This is our Dream Job
Our goal in building this company was to spend all of our days sitting around helping Founders. It's awesome, and it never gets old. Working with Founders is the hardest and most inspiring work we could possibly do.
So, thank you.
“The only thing I love more than building startups is helping a million Founders build theirs.”
Wil Schroter, Founder + CEO
9 Startups, 6 exits, 32 Years
Ed Kang
Chief Strategy Officer
7 startups, 2 exits, 24 years
Ryan Rutan
Chief Marketing Officer
7 startups 4 exits, 27 years
Steve Gacka
Chief Technology Officer
6 startups, 4 exits, 17 years
History
We're over 15 years old. That's like 100 in startup years.
Here's our origin story...
2012
Startups launches Fundable.com - one of the first equity crowdfunding platforms
Owlet lists on Fundable for its baby smart sock - first company on platform to later go IPO
2013
Bumble debuts on our platform and grows to 100M+ users
HotelTonight ignites its growth on our platform and later exits to Airbnb (~$400M)
2014
Vevo builds its initial audience on our platform and scales to 400M+ monthly users
Acquired Launchrock.com (Trinity, Venture51, 500 Global)
Acquired KillerStartups.com
2015
Acquired Clarity.fm (Dan Martell, Baseline, Freestyle, Mark Cuban)
Acquired Zirtual.com (Mayfield, Structure Capital)
2016
Acquired Zana (spun out of True Ventures) to bring world-class education from top experts from Adobe, LinkedIn, and Wordpress.
2017
Acquired BizPlan.com - Online business planning software
Arcimoto, the electric vehicle company, IPOs after launching on Fundable in 2013
2018
Launches Startup Therapy podcast
Laird Superfood, after launching on Fundable, goes IPO on the NYSE
2020
Startups.co becomes Startups.coM by adding a very expensive consonant
2021
Launches "Founder Groups" product to be held in person globally, a week before COVID is announced.
ThredUp goes IPO after initial launch on our platform
Athletic Greens, an early member of our Founder Groups, hits $1B valuation
2022
Sonder reaches $2B valuation after Fundable launch
Loop Returns hits $1.75B valuation while in Founder Groups
2023
Instacart, one of our oldest launches, hits IPO and 10M+ Customers
2024
Sold Zirtual.com after it became the largest Virtual Assistant business
2025
Launches Startups.com YouTube channel
Sale of KillerStartups after having created over 10,000 startup reviews
2026
Sold Clarity.fm
Customer Success
Our success is 100% measured by the startups on our platform
$20 BILLION
Follow-On Funding
$115,000,000 Raised
15 IPOs
$178,000,000 Raised
$1 BILLION
Raised
1,000,000
Startups
20,000
Verified Experts
EVERY 90 SECONDS
On an Expert Call
237,000
Site Launches
$2,740,000,000 Raised
23 Million
Customers Acquired
$35M
Raised
73,000
5-Star Reviews
17,000
Answers
30,000
Testimonials
1,000
Masterclasses
20,000
Verified Experts
Acquisitions
We don't just build startups - we buy them.
We've acquired quite a few VC-Funded Startups from some well-known investors.
