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RallyCry Ventures

Micro-fund

USB2B SaaSFintechAI/MLEnterpriseMarketplacesConsumerOther

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Investment thesis

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.

Umair Aziz · CB Insights / press release, Aug 20 2020 · 2020-08-20

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.

Umair Aziz · rallycry.vc/team

To put a cold set of eyes on the startup.

Per Heistad · rallycry.vc/team

Team

Umair Aziz

Founder & Managing Director

B2B SaaSEnterpriseAI/MLFintech

Shakir Husain

Co-Founder & Managing Director

EnterpriseFintechAI/ML

Arjun Bhatnagar

Partner, Product Development

B2B SaaSDevtoolsConsumer

Michael Abbate

Partner, Customer Experience

ConsumerB2B SaaS

Per Heistad

Venture Partner

B2B SaaSEnterprise

Recent investments

CompanyRoundSizeDate
Verse GamingPre-Seed$585k2022-09-19
CloakedSeed2021-04-01
TeamLiftPre-Seed2021-04-01
Verb (Boston)Pre-Seed
Look-seePre-Seed

Frequent co-investors

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Frontstage Ventures1
TSG Consumer1
Brighter Capital1
Leadout Capital1
Oktogon Ventures1

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