RaiseCapital.com - The Name Says It All

RaiseCapital.com is an online community where entrepreneurs can showcase their business ideas and capital needs to investors.

As members of RaiseCapital.com, users have the option of posting a text description, pictures and/or a video presentation of their venture for free. There is no doubt about the vast array of businesses that fill each city and town, and there's no shortage of people looking to start new businesses each year. Coming up with the idea for a business is usually the easy part. Finding out how to raise capital to get it going is a whole other story. And it seems to be the point that most people get stuck on. The main thing an entrepreneur needs to know is where to go to find the capital to fund that next great idea. That has always been the tricky part of the business world. RaiseCapital.com is changing the way that businesses and ideas get financed. Those seeking funds, whether for new or existing businesses, simply place a free ad in the RaiseCapital.com directory using text descriptions, pictures and/or a streaming video presentation, then sit back and wait for the replies to roll in. Meanwhile, investors sift through the possibilities, deciding where they'd like to see their money grow. When they find a venture that interests them, they simply make the contact directly through the RaiseCapital.com system. The website’s technology also allows investors to track all the contacts they have made, search for opportunities by zip code, conduct keyword searches, receive industry e-mail alerts as well as create a watch list. Investors are not charged any fee to see the opportunities or to make direct contact with entrepreneurs.