Overview
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$17.9M
11 rounds on record
Latest round
$2M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 23 mo ago
Team
33
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -6% in a year
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Plug and Play
The money's age
Due for its next round
23 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 25, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $2M · SEC Form D Dec 27, 2023 Raised a round Convertible Note $2.1M · SEC Form D Aug 24, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $1M · SEC Form D Aug 24, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $241k · SEC Form D May 5, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $460k · SEC Form D Apr 28, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $415k · SEC Form D Mar 12, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $2.6M · SEC Form D Nov 9, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $907k · SEC Form D Dec 6, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $5.1M · SEC Form D Jan 4, 2017 Raised a round Venture round $2.2M · SEC Form D Aug 3, 2016 Raised a round Venture round $879k · SEC Form D May 18, 2016 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: 20 startups to invest $100 in (the law changed) Sep 23, 2013 On the Hacker News front page Invest in Startups · 136 points Jul 10, 2013 On the Hacker News front page The SEC Just Voted To Lift The Ban On General Solicitation · 229 points Mar 19, 2013 On the Hacker News front page Wefunder (YC W13): Invest in Startups · 140 points Jan 2013 Went through Y Combinator Jan 30, 2012 On the Hacker News front page Crowd Investing: Wefunder · 174 points 2012 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
3 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Oct 2024 $2M — SEC Form D
Convertible Note Dec 2023 $2.1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2022 $241k — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2022 $1M — SEC Form D
Venture round May 2022 $460k — SEC Form D
Venture round Apr 2021 $415k — SEC Form D
Venture round Mar 2021 $2.6M — SEC Form D
Venture round Nov 2020 $907k — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2019 $5.1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jan 2017 $2.2M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2016 $879k — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity WEFUNDER, INC. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Michael NormanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Nicholas TommarelloExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Greg BeloteExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Nicholas TomarelloExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship

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Overview

Wefunder is a public benefit corporation that runs an investment crowdfunding platform helping founders raise money, from ostrich farms to companies such as Substack, Replit and Mercury. Its stated goal is to help 20,000 more founders get started, and it hires sales, operations, design and customer success staff. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Wefunder over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Framer Motion
GSAP
Lottie
Cloud & platforms
Replit
Figma
AI & ML
Claude
Midjourney
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Full Wefunder tech stack 15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$50k – $250k
Open positions
7
5 Jobs
Intern 20%
Junior 20%
Staff 20%
Architect 40%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $50k $50k
Junior 1 $200k $200k
Staff 1 $250k $250k
Architect 2 $250k $250k
Highest paying role Full Stack Product Engineer $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Wefunder By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

People

Michael Norman
Executive Officer, Director
Nicholas Tommarello
Executive Officer, Director
Greg Belote
Executive Officer, Director
Nicholas Tomarello
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Design
29% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
HR
14% ▲
Sales
14% ▲
Operations
14% ▲
Customer Success
14% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Claude Code to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Aug 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Aug 2026
Added Replit to stack Aug 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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Cambridge United States
HQ
San Francisco United States
Regional office
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Design, Backend, HR
seen since Aug 2026

Jobs

$160k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Cursor
Claude
OpenAI Codex
Replit
LLM Guardrails
Analytics
A/B Testing
Design
Figma
Apply
$130k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
Cursor
Claude
Midjourney
OpenAI Codex
Replit
Frontend
GSAP
React.js
Framer Motion
Mobile
Lottie
Design
Figma
Management
Stripe
Apply
$160k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
JavaScript
Cursor
Claude
OpenAI Codex
Replit
Frontend
React.js
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$17.9M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
11
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $2M Details
Convertible Note 2023 $2.1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $241k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $460k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $415k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $2.6M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $907k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $5.1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 $2.2M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $879k Details