Premier Follow-On Support For
Elite Founders & Funds

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Fulcrum is a pioneer in the follow-on support industry. Our mission is to positively impact humanity’s future through supporting select entrepreneurs. We partner with startup founders who are building companies that support human wellbeing, and help them step into leadership to close follow-on financing for their ventures. 

Most of the companies we work with are referred through our partners, and our work helps funds and accelerators improve portfolio returns through greater follow-on activity. Since 2019 we have worked with over 100 founders to secure more than $60M in follow-on financing. 

An engagement with us means comprehensive support to secure the next round. In addition to a proprietary approach that focusses on developing and refining leadership skills in our portfolio CEOs, we have built an entire back-office to reduce the overhead of running a fundraising campaign. Through working with us, startup founders make the leap from founder to CEO, and build the capacity to create companies that positively impact humanity’s future. 

As a core part of our mission and leverage, Fulcrum focusses on companies that positively impact human wellbeing. We focus on the fields of healthtech, climatetech and related fields. We work with a small handful of companies per year that we scout based on the desires of our investor partners. 

To inquire about engaging with us, partnering with us, and to receive free resources on how to close your round faster, click below. 

Meet Our Leadership Team

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Will Sacks

Founder, CEO

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Susan Barnes

Director of Ecosystem

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Alyssa Mitchell​

Venture Associate​

Meet Our Mentors

Fulcrum mentors have raised over $700M in angel and venture capital

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Omer Davidi

CEO & Co-Founder - BeeHero
$66M Raised

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Caleb Counts

CEO - Connected Cannabis Co
$55M Raised

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Jordan Ramer

CEO - EV Connect
$51M Raised

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Kuljeev Singh

CEO - ResQ
$46.7M Raised

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Ryan Lee

President & CEO - Nautical Commerce
$31M Raised

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Anil Narasimha

Co-Founder & CEO - Mekonos
$31M Raised

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Vasu Prathipati

CEO - Maestro QA
$31M Raised

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Julie Gerdeman

CEO - Everstream Analytics
$29M Raised

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Ariyan Kabir

Co-Founder & CEO - Gray Matter Robotics
$25.4M Raised

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Elizabeth Muller

CEO, Co-Founder, Board Director - Deep Isolation
$22.6M Raised

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Yashar Behzadi

CEO & Founder - Synthesis AI
$21M Raised

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Piyush Sharrma​

CEO - Accurics (Acquired)
$20M Raised

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Kaitlyn Knopp

CEO & Founder - Pequity
$19M Raised

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Vikas Gupta

CEO - Azibo
$19M Raised

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Rakesh Soni

CEO - Login Radius
$19M Raised

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Vikram Ashok

CEO - Graphite
$18.8M Raised

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Bob Lam

CEO - Shard Secure
$15.6M Raised

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Gary E. Barnett

CEO - Rulai
$14.5M Raised

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Raffi Holzer

CEO - Avvir (Acquired)
$12.6M Raised

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi

CEO - Launchable
$12.5M Raised

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Dylan Robbins

CEO & Founder - Lucra Sports
$12.1M Raised

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Corey White

CEO & Founder - Cyvatar
$12M Raised

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Nile Dreiling

CEO - Holey Grail Donuts
$9M Raised

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Hermann Schützinger

CEO - Brain Luxury
$8.1M Raised

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Jason Devitt

CEO - Compound Eye
$7.9M Raised

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Xina Quan

Co-Founder & CEO - PyrAmes
$6M Raised

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Mohamed Sheta

CEO - Aiztech; Fulcrum Alumni
$6M Raised

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Marshall Hayes

Founder - Amplio Digital (Acquired); Investor, Executive Coach
$6M Raised

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Aly Dhalla

CEO - Fineo
$6M Raised

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Krishnan Gopalakrishnan

CEO - Plannery; Fulcrum Alumni
$4.1M Raised

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Kiah Hochstetler

CEO - Goodworks Ventures; Investor
$3.2M Raised

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Daniel Nordberg

CEO - Playground.tv; Fulcrum Alumni
$1.6M Raised

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Chhavi Singh

Cofounder - Flyte AI
$1.5M Raised

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Aslan Goldenhour

CEO & Founder - Mimicry

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Laura Lucas

Partner - L'Attitude Ventures

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Patrick Reichenberger

President & CEO - AltiBio

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Yagub Rahimov

CEO - Tested Web; Investor



Our Story

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Fulcrum was founded in 2019 by serial social entrepreneur Will Sacks with the mission to empower socially-minded entrepreneurs and help them succeed at raising capital.

Known colloquially as “The Weapon”, Will is a technologist, futurist and master storyteller who specializes in distilling a company story into a powerful message that resonates with investors, making attracting follow-on funding 10-100x easier. Entrepreneurs have been coming to Will for help with their story, pitch and fundraising campaigns for over 15 years. In that time, companies that Will has worked with personally have raised more than $100M.

Will previously created a solar powered race car that he raced from Chicago to Los Angeles, and founded Kindara, the first venture funded femtech company (acquired in 2018 after raising $9M in funding). After Kindara was acquired, Will started working with CEO’s and became frustrated at witnessing a steady stream of good companies that died after the founder failed to secure follow-on funding. Fulcrum grew out of Will’s desire to positively impact founders who are passionate about positively impacting the world. 

Will and the Fulcrum Ventures team are based in Nashville TN.