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RallyCry Ventures
Micro-fund
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RallyCry Ventures is an idea-stage micro VC that serves as a founder's first institutional investor — writing the first check before any outside capital has been raised and before a product exists. The firm explicitly avoids companies that have already raised external funding or gone through an accelerator, and focuses exclusively on direct-revenue business models (no advertising or media). Rather than targeting specific sectors, RallyCry bets on how software and technology, mixed with creativity and innovation, can create new markets. The firm's differentiated value-add is its proprietary 'Rally to MVP' process, through which a team of architects — covering revenue strategy, technical architecture, and customer experience — embeds alongside the founder to build, test, and launch an MVP. After reaching MVP, RallyCry introduces founders to its investor network to help them raise a Seed round. The firm views itself as a 'Value Creator' rather than a passive capital provider, investing, solutioning, and succeeding as one team.
Notable quotes
“We believe that startups born in this crisis will be more resilient and focused on creating viable businesses versus those that are funded with a 'burn money to grow' mindset.”
“Arm a founder at the idea stage with a revenue architect, a technology architect and a customer experience architect and you increase their likelihood of success by 10x.”
“To put a cold set of eyes on the startup.”
Team
Arjun Bhatnagar
Partner, Product Development
Michael Abbate
Partner, Customer Experience
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verse Gaming | Pre-Seed | $585k | 2022-09-19 |
| Cloaked | Seed | — | 2021-04-01 |
| TeamLift | Pre-Seed | — | 2021-04-01 |
| Verb (Boston) | Pre-Seed | — | — |
| Look-see | Pre-Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Frontstage Ventures | 1 |
| TSG Consumer | 1 |
| Brighter Capital | 1 |
| Leadout Capital | 1 |
| Oktogon Ventures | 1 |
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