Name: Pioneer
Rating: 2.91 (68 reviews)

We fund projects and startups built by ambitious outsiders around the world. We mentor you on fundraising, product-market fit, hiring and more. You keep each other accountable.

We’re adding a new option to the Pioneer offer: 2% of your company for a $20k investment, in addition to all the existing benefits of becoming a Pioneer. We're also adding a monthlong trip to Silicon Valley with fellow founders.

Hey PH! We're announcing our biggest update to Pioneer since we first launched. We’re now giving every new Pioneer the option to receive a $20k investment for 2% of their company. We're also adding a monthlong trip to Silicon Valley. If you haven’t heard of Pioneer, here’s the quick gist: we are a startup accelerator born online. Instead of endless Zoom and gloom, Pioneer is kind of like a stock market for pre-seed companies. Anyone can sign up with their product. Then they get a weekly score that fluctuates based on progress. Talk to more users, the score goes up. Write more code, score goes up. Read Reddit, the score goes down. You get the idea. We have all the trimmings of a traditional accelerator too: selected founders become Pioneers who join our network, get mentorship, advice, etc. But that’s all icing on the cake; our desire is to build a web-native startup scene. We've funded 130+ companies from 50+ countries who've collectively raised over $100M. The hope is that the refreshed offer will make Pioneer more attractive to even more ambitious outsiders tinkering with new ideas. You can read more about the change here: https://pioneer.app/blog/announc.... As always, feedback much appreciated!

@narang_rishi Interesting and sweet. Cheers.

@narang_rishi Looks interesting! Congrats 🚀

@narang_rishi Joining the Pioneer tournament this year has made me more productive in a way. Setting weekly goals and working to meet up. Really great community. Well done guys. Really..

@narang_rishi Sounds awesome!

Using pioneer for more than a year now, always up there in the leaderboard but not being selected although my project is making money from day 1. Plus, I'm not receiving any feedback from them, so not sure on the process. That being said, I do receive good feedback from other people in the competition and this also seems a good update.

@mikerubini Have you submitted to the livestreams where they pick projects for feedback? Or looked at those projects that they have selected? Are you in it to win it or to grow yourself regardless?

@mikerubini Yep confirming. Seen it many times with tens of post-soviet founders. Pioneer's team is absolutely not transparent in making their selections. The same thing on feedback, community is super helpful, Pioneer's team almost never provide anything non generic as feedback.

@mikerubini @mdorsett I like to see whether I could get to No 1 even for a brief moment in time. My company, www.skilledup.life no way dependent on Pioneer for growth. Love the community - most of them, anyway!

@mdorsett yes and yes - both

@mikerubini wishing you the best of luck! Will look out for you! Whats the name of your current wip?

Amazing! Nice work Pioneer team🔥

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