Find funding for startup and small businesses today on The Invstor.com Network. Many companies struggle with the process of funding a startup company, but Invstor.com can help point you to real investors who actually invest and provide funding for small businesses.

How to Find Funding

Finding funding on The Invstor.com Network is not just about searching through a bunch of profiles and e-mailing investors. Your best approach toward finding small business funding is to do a little bit of homework on Invstor.com beforehand.

You can search through our extensive database of members who provide funding by using the Search feature and then selecting "investors" as your principle search selection. You can specify additional search criteria in your funding search such as investment size, geography and industry preferences, among others.

Joining The Invstor.com Network is free and fast. It only takes a moment to create a profile of yourself and your company. Doing so will not only allow you to use Invstor.com directly but will also make other members of the network aware of your startup opportunity.

When creating your profile as a startup company, be sure to select "looking for funding" as one of your descriptors. This will alert other investors who may be interested in providing funding to your startup.

Approaching investors for funding

When the time comes to contact an investor, we would highly recommend visiting their Web site beforehand so that you may get a sense for the company and their previous investments. Investors typically provide funding to to small businesses that are within particular regions, industries or investment sizes. For example, if you locate an Angel Investor who can provide funding but they do not seem to make investments outside of the United States, it may be a challenge to put a deal together.

The same goes for Venture Capital firms that provide funding. It's a good idea to know what types of startup companies they have invested in previously before you contact them.

Making contact with an investor

In your contact to an investor, we recommend being brief and getting straight to the point. Investors don't have time to read long-winded histories of your company or your background. They want to know, preferably in just a few sentences, exactly what the opportunity looks like and why they should care.

Your ability to communicate your opportunity effectively to an investor could be the difference between getting funding and missing the boat entirely, so take your time and compose a good, powerful message.