Find your champions

Alma is a community of funders backing women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures, with ambitions to scale globally

How to apply ↡

Before you apply,

do you meet our criteria? You must be an early stage venture (usually pre-seed, seed or series A). We are happy to look at product and services that are tech-driven or with strong IP.

Not all founders need to identify as women. We have invested in many mixed teams. As long as there is at least 1 founder with a double digit ownership who identifies as woman, it aligns with our community's focus.

Some of our funders invest in women-led venture funds too. Usually pre-seed, seed to series A.

See some of our portfolio here.

🚫 We are unable to put forward any business

unincorporated
before your friends & family round
lifestyle or community
service-led or consultancy
franchise
brick-and-mortar

Ready?

Now that you know you fit our members’ focus, you can fill the form below. We will review and if it aligns, we will share it with the community. You will receive an email notification once your raise has been shared.

Make sure you are absolutely ready to fundraise before applying. The Alma community receives tens of start-up decks a week and it will be difficult to raise above it all.

I'm ready to share my raise →

Read on to maximise your chances ↡↡↡

A few things to keep in mind

We recommend reaching out directly to different Alma Angels to get their interest, you can find many of them on our LinkedIn. The Alma community receives tens of decks a week and it's sometimes difficult to raise above the deal flow so make sure you are absolutely ready to fundraise before applying.

We are a community of funders, some are very experienced, some are newer to investing in startups. All bound by the passion and commitment to put more capital in the hands of women. We encourage Almas to invest direct on the cap table if they meet your minimum ticket requirement. If there is a lot of interest, we can look to create a SPV or we can join an existing SPV founder-led or led by another syndicate. We have no conflict of interest when collaborating with syndicates since Alma does not charge for capital deployed.
The Alma team is a not a gatekeeper. Part of Alma's mission is to break the "Access to Capital" barrier, so we share the information you send with all the community and leave it to each individual to connect if they find it interesting. If we see that there is a lot of interest, we will group together to do due diligence to save time for the founders and the angels.
We do our best to make sure everyone is aware of all the materials you send over and give you the best chance, but we cannot guarantee an Alma will reach out. Each individual angel decides what they want to do due diligence on. If you do not hear back, it’s not necessarily that the business is not of interest but it is sometimes a matter of timing. We receive tens of decks a week, you need to raise above it.
Each Alma makes their own decision and invests according to their individual circumstances so inidivudal ticket size varies from £2k to ... (biggest cheque we know of was £400k). We may group together in a SPV if there is a lot of interest, but we encourage angels to invest direct on the cap table when they meet your minimum ticket requirement.
There are some very experienced and strategic operators as well as fund managers in the community. All Almas are trained and pledge to be value-add angels.