Ash Maurya Helping early-stage founders succeed. Founder of LEANSTACK, Best-selling author, and creator of Lean Canvas. Subscribe​

Click here to see if your hypothesis is fundable!

We didn’t fund a pitch deck.
We funded an experiment.

A founder came to us with real users, a real product, and one painfully clear problem:
she couldn’t run the experiment fast enough to learn.

So, we stepped in.

Not with a big check.
With metered micro-funding tied directly to evidence.

Here’s how it works:

• Up to $500 to run your first experiment
• Up to $2,600 per month for follow-on experiments
• Funding unlocks only when learning unlocks
• No decks. No theater. No vibes.

We fund things like:
– Increasing production capacity to ship test units
– Getting samples into real customers’ hands faster
– Measuring whether people actually reorder with their own money

We don’t fund:
– Experiments without clear hypotheses
– Ideas without real users

In this case, the founder didn’t ask us to believe.
She showed us exactly what she needed to test—and why.

That’s the bar.

If $500 could meaningfully speed up your next learning loop,
you’re exactly who this is for.

👉 Apply for micro-funding here: ​
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We’d rather fund ten small, honest experiments
than one big, imaginary plan.

Fund learning.
Everything else follows.

— Adam