Raising your first round in 2026? Plan for 6+ months. Easy money is gone, investors want traction, efficiency, and a path to profit. Fundraising gets longer, but there's a chance to skip cold outreach! Pitch to 10 investors at Leap on Jan 27. Apply: https://t.co/AayPIlOu2u

Fundraising in 2026? Leap speed dating for pre-seed and seed startup founders by @p2svc is open for registration! 10 founders. 10 VCs. 10 one-to-one meetings and a shortcut to the investment committee. 🗓January 27 Spots are limited. Apply here: https://t.co/AayPIlOu2u

Not ready for January’s post-holiday slowdown? 🚀 Start 2026 strong at Leap on Jan 27. Pitch your startup to 10 seed & pre-seed investors in 7-min one-to-one sessions. The winner is fast-tracked to the final stage of the P2S investment process. Apply: https://t.co/AayPIlOu2u

🚀 Nomination 10: The Impact Catalyst Award The Winner: Bindwell. Through AI-driven pesticide innovation, @navvye and @tylerarose0 are advancing multiple UN SDGs, including Zero Hunger, Responsible Consumption and Production, Life on Land, and Climate Action

🚀Nomination 9: LinkedIn Trailblazer of the Year The Winner:@MariusMeiners, Co-Founder & CEO of Peec AI, raising €1.8M pre-seed, €5.2M seed, and closing a $21M Series A in Nov Also, Marius built a standout LinkedIn presence with 14,095 fol. and an avg of ~748 engagements/post

🚀Nomination 8: The Major Fortune 500 Startup Launchpad The Winner: @Citi! In 2025 commercial banks were the leading source of new startup founders. Citi emerged as the most common @Fortune500 previous employer of founders who successfully raised early-stage funding this year.

🚀 Nomination 7: The Girl Power Capital Breakthrough The winner is @miramurati, Founder of Thinking Machines Lab. Mira secured a $2B seed round led by a16z - one of the largest early-stage raises of the decade, which positions her as one of the most influential AI leaders.

🚀 Nomination 6: The Most Community-Driven Founder The Winners: Magnus Müller and Gregor Žunič, who built Browser Use - one of the most active developer communities in AI tooling, with 73,000 GitHub stars, 23,400 Discord members, and 15,000+ participating developers worldwide.

🚀 Nomination 5: Leap to Success The Winner is octonomy, with Sushel B, Oliver T, Thorsten G, Markus H, and Thomas B. building AI-driven agentic systems for enterprise service workflows. A standout fundraising leap from €5M pre-seed in Feb, followed by $20M seed round in Nov

🚀 Nomination 4: @ProductHunt Launch of the Year The winner: @screenstudio 3.0, founded by Adam Pietrasiak! Powered by PH’s community, Screen Studio 3.0, a screen recorder that automatically produces high-impact videos, surged to the top of the platform with 1,644 upvotes now.

🚀 Nomination 3: Lifetime Builders The Winner: AheadComputing, led by highly experienced founders (avg +50) Debbie M, Jonathan P, Dr. Srikanth S, and Mark Dб who raised $21.5M in seed funding to develop open-specification core IP for next-generation microprocessors.

🚀 Nomination 2: Rising Generation Award The Winner is Bindwell! A project, founded by @tylerarose0 (18) and @navvye (19), is reimagining pesticide development with AI. The company raised a $6M seed, which is a great example of scientifically driven youth entrepreneurship.

🚀 Nomination 1: The Solo Rocket Raiser Seed Winner: Andre Cronje, Founder of @flyingtulip_ . A DeFi pioneer, Andre secured $200M in seed funding for Flying Tulip, representing one of the largest seed rounds for a solo founder in 2025.

🚀 Nomination 1: The Solo Rocket Raiser Pre-Seed Winner: Leon Ming, Founder of @YouWareAI, an all-in-one AI coding platform that closed a landmark $50M pre-seed round, valuing the company at $200M and marking one of the largest solo-founder pre-seed raises to date.

@p2svc launches the Liftoff Record Book - a new project celebrating pre-seed & seed founders shaping innovation in 2025, at a time dominated by mega-rounds. Inspired by Guinness, we analyzed 1,000+ startups across 10 categories to spotlight verified, standout achievements

We’re proud that our events attracted ~4,500 registered participants this year. That’s how we know we’re doing something meaningful for the early-stage startup community and helping innovation reach the market. Thank you for an amazing year, and stay tuned!

Beyond the investments, we were especially focused on events: 🔷 4 Pitch & Drinks (2xSF, London, Lisbon) 🔷 2 online hyper-personalized pitching sessions "Leap" 🔷 4 pitching sessions (Spain, UK, Hegai community) 🔷 4 offline strategic sessions 🔷 Events attended: countless

Tired of all the 2025 Wrapped posts already? We’re not and happily follow this tradition at @p2svc! Here's our 2025 wrapped 🧵: 🔷 Hours of calls with founders: ~500 🔷 Investment committees: 20 🔷 New portfolio startups: 9 🔷 Follow-on deals: 2 🔷 Total invested: ~$10M

The next wave of AI won’t come from hype, but from “unsexy” industries. As Denis Kalyshkin, Program Director at @p2svc writes, that real sectors offer real pain points, complex workflows, and clear ROI. Now’s the moment to build durable AI companies: https://t.co/R1DyDJ3geG

🚀 Early-stage founders in SF! Join AltaIR Capital, @p2svc co-founding VC, for a hands-on workshop with global VC leader Igor Ryabenkiy. Learn to accelerate growth, avoid mistakes & get unfiltered advice. 📅 Dec 16, 09:00–12:00, San Francisco 🔗 Apply: