The Category

Own your raise.

Issuer-owned capital raising: the raise runs on your domain, under your brand, into your investor list. The software gets a flat fee, not a cut.

Every year, founders and fund managers hand hundreds of millions of dollars in success fees to platforms whose real product is someone else's audience.

That's the Rented Raise. You bring the deal. You bring most of the investors. The platform brings a checkout page and a toll: two to eight and a half percent of everything you worked for. Meanwhile the investor relationships stay in their database, warming up for the next platform deal that isn't yours.

We think a raise is an asset, not a listing. The brand equity, the data, the investor trust: those should compound for you, raise after raise.

So we sell software. Flat fee, published on the website, capped meters, zero percent of your raise. Not because it's charity, but because it's a better business for both of us. You keep more of this raise. We earn the next twelve.

And the honest part: if you have no audience and want a crowd, use Wefunder. Genuinely. Marketplaces are good at renting audiences. But if you're bringing your own investors, stop paying rent on them.

Raise direct. Own everything.

Two Ways to Raise

The Rented Raise vs. the Owned Raise

The Rented Raise

  • Their domain. Your deal is listing #847 in someone else's catalog.
  • Their list. Investors you paid to acquire get marketed the next deal, and it isn't yours.
  • Their toll. 2-8.5% of the raise, activation fees, bundled retainers.
  • Start from zero. Next raise, you rent the audience again.

The Owned Raise

  • Your domain. invest.yourcompany.com. The brand equity accrues to you.
  • Your list. Every investor relationship is yours: exportable anytime, marketed to by no one but you.
  • Flat software fee. Published pricing, capped usage, $0 success fees ever.
  • Compounding. Raise #2 launches into a warm, permissioned list you already own.
Why CrowdEngine Gets to Say This

Thirteen years of receipts.

Category claims are cheap. Here's what backs this one.

Since 2013

Built at the JOBS Act

We've been shipping issuer-owned raise software since the rules that made it possible were written.

$2.07B+

Raised on the engine

By issuers using CrowdEngine software: banks, REITs, funds, syndicators, and 318+ portals.

$0 ever

No success fees, no exceptions

Thirteen years without taking a percentage of anyone's raise. It's not a promotion; it's the business model.

Software only

No conflicts to manage

Not a broker-dealer, not a marketplace, not an agency holding your retainer. We arm your professionals; we don't replace them.

Rent ends when you say it does.

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