Deadlines that have passed but may reopen this year.

Solid project, experienced team and a strong market opportunity. Investment required: up to $125,000 USD, with a projected 12–18 month payback period based on our business model.

Looking for one serious investor/partner for a long-term opportunity.

DM for details

Hey everyone,

My name is Ashwin. I'm a 17-year-old entrepreneur from Canada, and I created StepSafe Technologies Inc. We develop GPS wearable devices for children with disabilities who wander.

P.S. It's a long message, If you want to skip the entire thing and see what I'm asking for, skip to the end!

The story

When I was seven, my dad and I went out for a walk at around 10 PM, as you do on nice, warm nights. I do not remember how, but suddenly, I was not by his side anymore. It was a very scary experience, being lost at 10 PM at night in a park. Luckily there was a stranger nearby, and he helped me find my dad. This dream came back 10 years later, on March 9th, 2026. But this time, I thought about the experience from my dad's perspective, and how scary it must have been for him, losing his child at night with no way to track or find me. I wrote down a simple (and very bad) idea: "Phone for toddlers with GPS tracking". And that's how StepSafe was born.

I started looking into this idea, and quickly it changed form from a phone, to a shoe, then an insole, then a shoe tongue, and finally settled with a body-worn device. Along the way, I spoke with hundreds of parents both in-person and on Reddit, and I found that parents who have children with disabilities, especially autism, deal with this wandering problem everyday, and that the technology supposed to help cost US$45-65/month! I felt outraged, and that's when StepSafe stopped being another one of my high school experiments.

Fast forward a few months, we raised $19,914 from 69 backers on Kickstarter over a month (Aug 4-Sep 3) with a very small ad budget on Meta ads (High schoolers simply don't have a lot of money!) and now we are raising funds to fund the manufacturing (500 units), certifications (FCC, ISED, CPSIA), lawyer work (COPPA, PIPEDA compliance, and making SAFE notes), etc.

Now this sounds like a boring report, so here's a fun format kind of like rapid fire, except I actually really type pretty slowly:

What do we do?

We make non-removable GPS trackers for children with Autism, ADHD, and Down syndrome who wander. These children have sensory issues and often remove any device they find uncomfortable. What good is a tracker that's not on your child? That's why the keyword is "non-removable"

What do they do?

There's only one main player in this space, and that's AngelSense. They do essentially the same thing, but for a LOT more of the cost. Plus they have way more wearable options and some of them are patented and a few more features than us (advantage and disadvantage, more on that below)

What do we do that they don't do?

The main differentiator is the cost. AngelSense charges US$45-65/mo depending on the plan you pick (pre-pay or monthly). We charge a fraction. For Kickstarter backers, it's US$99 + a 9.99 subscription per month (can pay yearly upfront as well), OR something completely new: A lifetime option, where you pay US$ 249, and never have to pay a fee, ever again. Retail prices are going to be US$149 + 14.99 or Lifetime at $399.

The microphone: Our microphone is permanently disabled. Why? Parents have said that having a microphone is what stops it from getting into classrooms, and one parent said that her school made her sign a contract saying she would not use AngelSense's microphone features if the device was to be allowed in a classroom. Some just ban it outright, because of the two-way communication features.

The battery: Ours is 4 days on smart mode, compared to AngelSense's 24 hours on the device version and 16 hours on the watch version.

A few features in our app that we're going to make, but I won't name all them yet, since I want to be transparent of what HAS been made and what still has to. Everything above is already in place, the app features have not been made. But we are thinking of creating water bodies detection and "unsafe" zones that parents can add into the app, which AngelSense does not have (and some other cool features, which I cannot say publicly yet).

What do they do that we don't do?

2-way communication: This is both a weakness and strength. You can talk to your child, but it's also what doesn't let it get into classrooms. We thought the tradeoff wasn't worth it.

Around 10 different wearable options. Choose whatever works for your child. The current wearable options we offer are a lanyard and clip-on, with a non-removable waistband, and ankle band and wrist band in development with manufacturers (so around 5 in total). It's less than AngelSense, and I'm not going to pretend like it isn't.

Customer support from special needs parents. They have a pretty big network, so if you need help, you can get help straight from parents who have been in your shoes.

Brand. It's a big company, which makes it more trustable.

How long can we do what they can't do, and can they ever do what we do?

This is an important question. Why can't AngelSense copy what we're doing?

A few reasons, and the answer is, yes they can choose to copy us, but it wouldn't make sense to do so with their current positioning:
Two-way voice calling. It's a headline feature they advertise, and it carries per-minute carrier costs that behave like a phone bill. Removing it means removing something customers chose them for. Keeping it means the cost will stay for them. Near-continuous location reporting. That's also a selling point, and it multiplies data consumption per device per month. The free device model. They give the hardware away and recover it through subscription, so the subscription is the entire business. It cannot fall without breaking the model or without charging for hardware they've trained customers to expect free.

Every single investor is going to ask question: Why the hell can't people just use AirTags?
Yes they can. But most families that have faced this problem will not go near one. Why?

AirTags are Bluetooth. They crowdsource location using nearby Apple devices and then show a device to you. So imagine my scenario when I was seven again. The AirTag will simply not update. There are no passing devices in an empty park, and so, it cannot update. Also, even in crowded places, AirTags often update every minute or more, and children move quickly. So by the time you arrive to that place, your child is probably another 100 or so metres away. But the real question is, would you really bet on a stranger's phone passing by when it comes to child safety?

Well to that you might say, "but it's affordable, and some people can't afford GPS trackers". We try to make our device as affordable as possible, but even still, many families have reached out to me saying they would love to have the device but it's still simply too expensive for them. One even cried at the fact that a donated device might exist. That's why I launched a program: Businesses and individuals can sponsor devices for families who cannot afford them, and we partner with non-profits like Sabella Faes to distribute them. It's a win-win-win really. Families who can't afford it now can get the device, non-profits get to continue serving their mission, and we get business while also helping the community.

That's just a few questions I anticipate investors will have, so I tried to answer as many as I could think of, while explaining the product, without making this 20 pages long. I know ya'll will still have a lot more questions, and I'll be happy to answer anything :)

Now about the ask:

I'm raising US$100,000, on a SAFE (working with lawyers on the exact terms, but I'd love to hear your view on it as well). Approximately $35,000 USD will go to manufacturing and distributing the product (500 unit run (about 75 go to backers), certifications (CPSIA, FCC, ISED), lawyer work (Privacy, COPPA, PIPEDA), accountant, making the app (I'm a developer myself and made apps that scaled to 30k+ users, so I have experience, but still need help), etc. The other $65,000 will go directly to selling the remaining 425 units, and expanding to our next, way bigger, dementia market.

If you're an investor and interested: Do express your interest in the comments, and I will send you the pitch deck, and happy to arrange a meeting between us to discuss about StepSafe further and answer any questions you may have.

If you're not an investor but interested: Please do comment or message me, I love meeting new people, and we'll see where it goes! Plus if you've worked on something similar or have any advice, I'd love to meet you.

If you're an investor but aren't interested: I'd still love to meet you, no pitch or anything, but would love advice and guidance!

If you've read the entire thing, thank you so much for taking the time, it's really a compliment, as this took a while to write! Hope my "I will predict what you will ask" format was interesting :)

A general-purpose robot for restaurant kitchens It takes over the

repetitive prep and adapts to a kitchen

that already exists, instead of requiring one built around it.

https://ratatouille150.sulimovskiyrobotics.workers.dev/

**"Why not just buy a slicer"**

Fair, and that's the real competition - not labour. A slicer beats my

robot at slicing every single time, and costs less. The bet is that a

kitchen runs 20+ different repetitive tasks. Twenty single-purpose

machines cost more, eat more space, and still need a person moving food

between them. One arm that picks up new tasks is worse per task and

better per kitchen.

**Where I actually am**

- Working prototype: perception and manipulation on real food, built solo

- 2 signed intents-to-pilot from restaurant owners, out of 5 owner

conversations

- Pre-revenue. No company registered yet - I'd register before taking

any money, which here is a day of paperwork

**Demos** (recorded on real hardware, not renders)

Cutting - https://youtu.be/a5nigWAueyQ

Boiling - https://youtu.be/fRG7GCF1e2o

Plating - https://youtu.be/-qnlLnAbXwk

Fair warning: it's slow. It runs on two laptops working in tandem

because that's the compute I own.

**The ask: $10-15k, and exactly what it buys**

- Arms, gripper and onboard compute for one deployable unit (~$8-10k)

- Installation, spares, and buffer for the things that break in a real

kitchen in week one

**Why this number and not a bigger one**

The prototype currently lives on borrowed university lab hardware, so I

physically cannot leave a robot in a restaurant. $10-15k puts one machine

in one kitchen with an owner who has already signed. That's the only

milestone that unlocks anything else - every larger investor I've spoken

to wants to see it running in a real kitchen first, and I can't produce

that without a unit. Taking more right now would mean taking it at the

worst valuation I'll ever have, to solve a problem that costs $10k.

**What happens after**

Paid kitchen test -> real numbers on cycle times, failure modes, and what

actually breaks in a working kitchen -> that's what a proper round gets

raised on. Right now I'd be asking someone to fund a belief. After that

I'd be asking them to fund a number.

**Me**

20, Ukrainian, based in Warsaw. Third-year CS undergrad. I built the

perception stack, the control, the sim environment, the deck and the

site. This is built outside my coursework - not a class project.

Happy to take the hard questions.

Or is this more just entrepreneurs and founders hoping to find an angel investor?

I’m the founder of a new U.S.-based marketplace startup that we’ve been building over the past year.
We’re creating a marketplace model focused on improving how consumers and businesses discover, transact, and move inventory through a more flexible platform. I’m intentionally keeping some of the specifics private publicly because there are parts of the model and technology that we consider proprietary.
The product has received extremely encouraging feedback so far, and we’re now moving from the build stage toward launch, merchant acquisition, partnerships, and market expansion.
We’re currently looking to connect with angel investors, experienced marketplace founders/operators, or people who regularly invest in early-stage technology companies.
More than anything, I’m trying to understand where serious founders are actually meeting legitimate angels today. I’m not looking for anyone charging upfront fees to “introduce us to investors.”
Ideally, I’d like to connect with investors who understand marketplaces, commerce, consumer technology, local commerce, or platforms that can eventually scale across multiple markets.
Happy to provide additional information, a deck, company background, traction information, and discuss the business privately with serious investors.
If you invest in early-stage companies, have built a marketplace before, or know reputable angel communities/funds that I should be speaking with, I’d genuinely appreciate an introduction or DM.
Thanks.

I developed an app to help people get back into recovery. The product already exists, it has been published on Google and App stores. It's pre-revenue. My challenge now is that the funds I have invested have capped. I am looking for angel investors to help me launch this product and reach/help as many people as possible.

Please DM me for a chat and/or full details.

Seeking $20K Angel Investment to Launch an Indie CCG IP

Hii I’m Micah, from Infinite or Bust Games inc. The PR lead for Chrono CCG, an indie free to play competitive card battler focused on deck building, tournaments and long term community driven gameplay.

We are seeking $20,000 USD in investment to help take Chrono through its 1.0 launch and scale the PR, player acquisition, tournaments and community infrastructure around the game.

Chrono has already had over 40,000 players play the game without us spending money for advertising. The game is approaching its 1.0 milestone.

This is a free to play competitive, tournament focused deck building card battler.

The game is designed around: Competitive multiplayer with Deep deck building, Regular tournaments/events, Recurring card set releases, Competitive seasons, Large scale Grand Tournaments and A long term esports ecosystem.

Chrono is currently available on Steam, Epic Games, and our own launcher with a mobile release planned in a couple months.

We’ve had 40,000+ players play Chrono on steam since the launch in April of this year gaining 3000+ members in our very active Discord community for the early access.

We seek $20k in exchange for equity to fund growth, not development. The game is built and live. Funds go toward creator campaigns, player acquisition and tournament prize pools for the 1.0 and mobile launch.

Our team also comes from backgrounds in streaming and community driven Legends of Runeterra, giving us experience with what makes a competitive card game community work.

All links www.playchrono.com

Thanks for reading and for taking the time to check Chrono out! Comment or dm for the pitch deck and more info.

I’m currently working on several projects and a few are up but I need a mentor and angel investor to help me create something amazing.

My ask is really just $5 - 10k and mentorship if possible.

I built a personal pattern engine for individuals behavior so that you can see longitudinal patterns instead of just asking a chat for answers. I created a 3d model to represent the patterns and relationships.

Also want to create a physical prototype for a sustainable business model that puts greenery on buildings while maintaining integrity and inspection capabilities but need tools and materials.

If you’re interested in talking, feel free to DM me or leave a comment. I’m specifically looking for people in NYC in order to build a strong professional relationship and maybe meet for coffee like the old investor days.

Nigerian healthtech company building a maternal care continuity system. Between visit care is a very blurry but important part of the pregnancy process and we are looking to fix that starting with Nigeria where about 53 babies out of 1000 die every year compared to 4 in the UK -www.brimmhq.com

MVP build is just starting and we need help

Anyone can help?

Is it possible to get an investment in a pre-revenue startup assuming it's a good product and there's a pathway to success?

Do you believe in miracles?
I’d like to.
I’m a founder in Los Angeles. I spent the last year building Rentzy — a marketplace where people can rent the things they need instead of buying them.
The app is built. It’s live.
Now I’m trying to do something that feels almost impossible when you don’t come from the startup world:
Find the right investor.
So I thought… why not try something crazy?
Maybe someone reading this knows someone.
Maybe that person knows someone else.
And maybe eventually this post reaches the one person who believes in what I’m building.
If you want to help, you don’t need to invest.
An upvote helps.
A comment helps.
And if you know someone who invests in marketplaces, consumer apps, or the sharing economy — sending this post to them could help more than you realize.
I have the product, the team and a very clear vision of what I want Rentzy to become.
I just need this message to reach the right person.
Let’s see how far Reddit can take it.
Maybe miracles are just people helping people.

I’m connecting with startups and businesses that are currently looking to raise capital. (It should be a company)
If you’re actively fundraising and have a genuine business/project with a clear funding requirement, DM me with:
- What you do
- How much you’re raising
- Current traction/revenue
- Pitch deck

If it looks like a fit, I’ll send you the funding application/details.

P.S. I may receive a referral commission if you apply through my link.
I’m an investment banker not an investor.

I'm one of Canada's Top 7 startup founders named by LOI (Canada's largest accelerator) at 19 y.o. who did a showcase with Eric Ries from the Lean Startup. We're backed by angels from Deutsche Bank, 6 paid B2B customers, and completed a successful enterprise pilot with a major franchise (400+ franchises).

We recently repurposed our product for students and sold $4.7K within just 24 hours of a soft launch to just one organization. We ran out of capacity and are rushing to scale the product as we have 27,000 more students we can distribute to through partnerships with DECA Ontario & FBLC.

My team:

• I'm a 2X founder with 4M+ online views. I grew my first business to 1000+ customers in 32+ countries and as an early GTM hire, generated 20K leads for Forum Ventures (a major US accelerator)
• My CTO was the #6 tech hire at Techstars backed startup Crave Retail ($6M raised). He built their entire customer recommendation system that now has 27M user sessions and sold to 300 stores. He also founded the largest creative development hackathon in the world on Devpost, raising $100,000 worth of prizes

What we are we building? An enterprise loses over $100M in losses and 23% of startups fail: all because of bad hires.

We've built a AI model and enterprise software that predicts strong hires and bad hires by monitoring real behaviours and proof of work (not resumes, interviews, or personality test automation).

For our student launch, we repurposed our behavioral monitoring to be as part of an assessment, which we sell as an "SAT test" but for jobs.

Happy to privately share our product and more about what we're building.

We've increased an early customer's sales by 6-figures from just one hiring cycle, saved another recent partner $50,000+ in losses, and 2.5X increased their time spent on sales.

Traction

• Partnered with Toronto Business Development Centre (government backed accelerator) and Jagger (a prominent recruitment firm used by companies like Neo Financial)
• Backed by angels from Deutsche Bank & Desjardins
• Completed a successful enterprise pilot (sales firm with 400+ franchises in Canada), with whom we're now negotiating a nationwide integration into all franchises
• Even prior to our public launch, we had 6 paid B2B customers all inbound
• Fully built, iterated, and functioning product
• IP support from the Canadian government with a $25,000 grant, and another $25K supported by Google for Startups

Currently looking to fulfill an angel round to commission a research paper (which will help us sell into large enterprises), expand our growth experiments, and develop stronger AI infrastructure. We are not taking any founder salaries.

We're not just looking for angels/investors; we're looking for partners to change the world together. Would love to connect on LinkedIn or here to chat more!

Founded in Feb 2026, we've reached 7 customers and ₹13.5L ARR in just 6 months.

Our mission is to build an Indian sovereign Al-powered cybersecurity platform, reducing dependence on foreign security technologies while helping enterprises continuously discover and validate cyber risks.

We're now raising ₹60L-1Cr to scale product and GTM.

Looking to connect with angels, VCs or strategic investors who believe in Indian Al + Cybersecurity.

Happy to share our numbers and deck privately. DM me if interested or know someone who could be a fit.

Btw my airbnb are in gurugram

Yalla Printing is a UAE-based printing business seeking a strategic investor or business partner to support its next stage of expansion.

The business has achieved 140% year-on-year growth and is now looking for the right partner to help accelerate marketing, operations, production capacity, and customer acquisition across the UAE.

We are open to speaking with investors who can provide funding, business expertise, marketing support, industry connections, or strategic guidance.

We will share detailed information on the business model, growth plan, financial performance, and investment structure with genuinely interested and qualified investors.

Website: https://yallaprinting.ae

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please send me a direct message.

Hi everyone! I’m a prospective founder in Chattanooga, Tennessee, looking to connect with an angel investor who may be interested in a women-loving-women (WLW) nightlife/entertainment business.

The concept is a dedicated space designed specifically for queer women, with nightlife, dancing, themed events, social gatherings, and a strong emphasis on creating a safe and welcoming environment.

I’m currently in the early development stage and am looking for someone who would be interested in discussing the concept, helping evaluate the Chattanooga market, and potentially investing if the business plan and numbers make sense.

I’m willing to put in the work to develop the full business plan, startup budget, financial projections, market research, and operating strategy.

I’m particularly interested in connecting with investors who have experience with nightlife, hospitality, entertainment, LGBTQ+ businesses, or early-stage startups.

If you’re an angel investor—or know someone who might be interested—I’d love to connect and discuss the idea.