Looking for community, mentorship, and a bit of funding to help you grow your B2B SaaS?
Applications are open for the TinySeed accelerator:
Get your application in before the September 15th deadline! ๐
We are very excited to announce the newest TinySeed mentors: Jason Fried and DHH of Basecamp, Patrick Campbell of Price Intelligently, and Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers.
@dhh
@jasonfried
@patticus
@csallen
At the sound of the bell๐ TinySeed applications are now open!
And for the first time you can also check out our epic list of mentors at , and our investment terms at
We added a new official TinySeed mentor today! So honored to bring on
@aprildunford
, the author of Obviously Awesome and startup market strategy + positioning expert.๐ฅ
We are over the moon to announce the new arm of our fund...
๐ TinySeed Europe ๐
A dedicated arm of our accelerator with a local Program Manager to support founders in European timezones.
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Applications are now open for our 2021 SaaS accelerator batch!
๐ Our announcement + program information:
โก๏ธ Direct application link:
โ Questions? Sign up for our free webinar () or send us a DM!
We're incredibly excited to announce the 18 startups we accepted to our 2021 Spring accelerator batch today. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
See the complete list here:
Our announcement video:
More details in thread:
Do you run a SaaS startup with revenue? Apply for TinySeed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.
๐ฅ Applications are now open for our Fall 2021 accelerator batch. ๐ฅ
For a brief moment, most of the TinySeed team (
@robwalling
,
@einarvollset
, and
@tracymakes
) were in the same time zone! First time seeing eachother in person since January 2020. ๐ช
We are thrilled to announce weโve raised $10.38 million USD for a fund primarily targeting early-stage startups in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Blog post:
We've added 26 startups to the TinySeed portfolio family!
๐ฅ See our announcement livestream and the list of companies in our Fall 2022 accelerator programs here:
We're excited to add
@asiamatos
(CEO and founder of DemandMaven), as our newest TinySeed mentor. Welcome aboard and thanks for helping out our founders! ๐
We're proud to announce that two founders from our inaugural accelerator program in 2019 are now official mentors with TinySeed. ๐
Thank you to
@TheCraigHewitt
and
@mattwensing
for being such valuable members in our community, and for spending so much of your time giving back!
Applications for our Fall 2021 accelerator batch will open on August 9th!
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This is the first year we are running two batches simultaneously, offset by half a year, and weโre excited to double the number of startups we get to support each year. ๐ช
In the last 15 months, weโve backed 23 fast-growing SaaS companies, and would have funded dozens more from nearly 1600 applicants.
๐ฅ Now we're raising our second fund. ๐ฅ
Blog post:
Investor application:
If youโre bootstrapping a business on the side, and think youโd be able to make a lot more progress if you could focus on it full time, check out
@tinyseedfund
. Theyโre open for applications:
Our Fall 2021 accelerator batch is here! We narrowed down an astonishing amount of applications to 18 startups (and 34 founders) that we started working with yesterday.
๐ฅ See all the startups here:
Full list of startups in thread ๐งต
As we've been raising our second fund (), we've become aware of an issue in SEC regulations that has major consequences, especially affecting emerging funds and underrepresented groups.
Read the full post () โ highlights in thread:
Now announcing: The TinySeed Syndicate. ๐ฅ
The TinySeed Syndicate will invest in TinySeed companies who raise additional funding as well as other exciting investment opportunities that fall outside our core thesis:
More info in thread ๐งต:
Super big new year news: The applications for our third batch will open next week. ๐ฅณ
๐ We posted a preview of the application here:
๐ We also reviewed what it's like being a TinySeed founder here:
Shares appreciated!
Applications are now open for TinySeed's Fall 2022 SaaS accelerator programs. ๐
If you're an ambitious SaaS founder looking to accelerate your growth, we'd love to see your application.
Read more about the program here:
Apply:
The sheer volume of acquisition news in mainstream tech press can make you think that you hear about most of the startup acquisitions that happen.
This tweet by
@patio11
resonated strongly with us, so we did some research:
People do not widely assume in the software industry that they would be able to name every legal firm with $10M in revenue, but they assume that every software company with $10M in revenue is on the top of HN or TechCrunch at least weekly, and that just isnโt true.
Curious about TinySeed? Listen to this episode of (hosted by
@steveofmcleod
) where
@TheCraigHewitt
chats about his experience applying for and being accepted into the inaugural batch.
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โWe invest in such a way that a life-changing outcome for the founderโsay getting to $10 million ARR and selling the company for $65 millionโis something the founders, us and our investors would celebrate."
@einarvollset
on (Thanks
@vmalu
!)
Applications are open now for TinySeed's Spring 2023 remote accelerator programs, designed to help ambitious SaaS bootstrappers worldwide grow and scale their company.
Start your application here:
Learn more:
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We're pleased to announce that
@BuilderPrimeCRM
(TS S2020), the project management platform + CRM designed for home improvement contractors, has secured their Series A funding round led by Blueprint Equity with participation by TinySeed. ๐
Our Spring 2024 Americas kick-off retreat is in full swing now in San Diego, California.
Photos from our opening dinner. Weโre taking full advantage of our environment while weโre here! ๐ฅ
We're so excited to welcome
@devbasu
as a TinySeed mentor ๐ A true expert on B2B SaaS acquisition and growth strategy-- we're glad to have you aboard Dev!
๐Reminder: We opened applications for our 2020 batch last Friday!
Weโre so pleased to see so many awesome applications already. Email us at hello
@tinyseed
.com if you have any questions or respond/DM to us here!
In July we held our first founder retreat in Minnesota. We navigated some (literally!) buggy situations, but overall it was a smashing success. ๐ณ
Click here for the full recap, lessons learned, and photos from the retreat:
We're raising our second fund, and are looking for investors to join us in our mission to provide funding and mentorship to startups who aren't interested in the game of "unicorn or bust".
Some highlights from our investment thesis ():
Join us as we announce our Fall 2021 accelerator batch. ๐ฅ
@robwalling
and
@tracymakes
will be doing a YouTube livestream event and taking questions โ set a reminder to join at 2pm ET tomorrow here:
Three years ago we had 11 companies jumping into a brand new accelerator.
Last night we held our pre-
#microconf
TinySeed banquet and itโs truly amazing to see the strength and numbers in our ecosystem today.
Applications for our SaaS accelerator programs are open!
Are you looking for:
โ A community of ambitious, like-minded founders?
โ Mentors to advise you on important decisions?
โ A support network for the next year and beyond?
Apply here:
Applications for TinySeed's third accelerator batch close in just four days! We collected some of the big wins from our Batch 1 and Batch 2 founders in thread:
Our general partner
@robwalling
will be holding
@IndieHackers
office hours on May 22nd. ๐
Share your current challenges for a chance to get some personal one-on-one feedback:
Weโve learned a lot while running our first application process, and one of the hardest lessons was the difficulty in building a diverse cohort of founders.
Some thoughts on our diversity numbers, and what weโe doing differently next time:
The secret is out! We held our first internal TinySeed-community-only conference and retreat last January in Cancun.
Say hello to TinyFest ๐๏ธ
(Yes, we're trying to give you FOMO!)
๐ Ready to take off? Applications for TinySeed's Spring 2024 SaaS accelerator programs are now open.
Start your application today:
Read about the program:
General partner and founder
@robwalling
was recently on the
@artofproductpod
talking TinySeed and some of his other projects. Listen to that here (starting at 28:10):
Our mentor roster includes some of the best subject-matter experts in SaaS, and we recently added new folks with deep experience in pricing, sales, and marketing topics:
TinySeed founder
@robwalling
is launching TinySeed Tales on
@startupspod
, a new series following the highs and lows of a startup founder over several months. S1 features
@TheCraigHewitt
of
@CastosHQ
; add the podcast to your podcast feed using this link:
What did we learn from the first cohort of our accelerator for bootstrappers?
TinySeed cofounder
@einarvollset
was interviewed on the
@upsidefm
podcast and chatted about lessons learned, our fundraising process and progress, and more.
Listen in here:
TinySeed founder
@robwalling
is on German local TV judging a startup competition () for
@PIRATESummit
. See him in the top right of the screen in the screenshot below. ๐คฉ
Our second in-person retreat is happening now and the conversations are ๐ฏ.
Donโt forget that applications for our 2020 cohort are opening on November 1st!
We've invested in 22 companies in our Spring 2023 accelerator batches, spanning 12 countries (new record!) across two programs. ๐
Who are they? Read on:
Applications are now open for our 2021 SaaS accelerator batch!
๐ Our announcement + program information:
โก๏ธ Direct application link:
โ Questions? Sign up for our free webinar () or send us a DM!
It may _look_ boring, but magical things happen when we get our founders in a room to talk about their businesses. โจ
๐ธ Photo from our TinySeed founder event (today!) prior to
@MicroConf
starting tomorrow.
After 12 months of early access ending in 5 months of intense product work, I'm thrilled to share that is officially open for general access as a low-code platform for embeddable calculators, forecasts, and simulations. โก๏ธ
@usesummit
Applications for our Spring 2023 programs will open for two weeks on February 6. ๐
Have questions? Want to get a feel for the team?
@robwalling
,
@tracymakes
, and
@alexmcquade
will be hosting a YouTube livesteam on Feb. 8. Click "Notify" here: