Friday, April 10, 2026 | INVESTMENT OF THE WEEK
Good morning. Yesterday, a Stanford MBA founder who scaled her last company to $150M in revenue told us she's closing her seed round in 5 days.
She's not opening it to retail again.
We got you in.
Alberto, Founderscrowd
🎯 DEAL OF THE WEEK: DOPPLE
The problem nobody's solving: $80 billion in government grants, donor-advised funds, and family support sits unused every year while 2/3 of American families live paycheck to paycheck. The money exists. The families exist. They just can't find each other.
Dopple is the map.
Think of it as the infrastructure layer connecting families to every funding source at once, government programs, philanthropic dollars, advertisers, friends and family. One platform. Zero cash changes hands. Full transparency on where every dollar goes.
Here's why this is interesting:
CEO with 3 exits: Lisa Marino (Stanford GSB, Wharton) scaled RockYou to $150M revenue and $140M EBITDA
$2.3M revenue already: From pilots with zero customer acquisition cost
2M families accessible: Through community partnerships (HeadStart, labor unions, community orgs)
Patent-pending platform: Only tech aggregating government + philanthropy + advertisers + personal gifting into single family registry
Profitable by 2027: Break-even at just 1,000 families per month
The terms:
$7M pre-money valuation (Last days at this price)
Raising final $500K of $2.8M seed round
Round closes in 5 days (April 16, 2026)
Co-investors: Jeremy Liew (Snapchat's first investor), McClatchy Media, NJEDA
Why we're sharing this:
Most investors ignore impact-driven infrastructure plays. They want flashy consumer apps or enterprise SaaS with obvious comps. Dopple is building public-private market rails that don't exist yet — the Stripe for social support. It's boring until you realize the TAM is $80B and nobody else is building this.
Lisa told us this is the last time Dopple opens to retail. After this closes, it's strategic investors only.
You have until Wednesday. I would not wait.
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