About
Fundraising, without the warm intro.
For founders who don't know the right people.
Most fundraising still runs on who you know. It assumes a warm network, an alumni connection, or a prior exit. Most founders, almost everywhere, have none of these — and lose deals because of it.
The problem we're solving
There is a structural trust gap between founders and investors. Founders can't get meetings without warm intros. Investors receive hundreds of pitch decks with no way to verify what's real. Both sides lose. Deals don't close. Good companies don't get funded.
What Hockystick does
Hockystick replaces the pitch deck with a verified founder profile. Investors browse structured, AI-reviewed profiles with staged access to documents — from public overview to full due diligence — all inside encrypted deal rooms. Both founders and investors are verified. The platform manufactures trust at scale, without requiring either side to know each other first.
Where we're based
Hockystick is a global platform, headquartered at DIFC FinTech Hive in Dubai. Founders and investors from any jurisdiction can use it — the platform is built for anyone raising or deploying capital, wherever they are based.
Our principles
We only claim what we can prove. Wrong information in investment contexts is worse than none.
Two-way verification. We verify investors too — not just founders.
Staged access. Sensitive documents only unlock when trust is established.
No warm intros required. Merit replaces connections.
Who built this
Hockystick is built by a small team operating from DIFC FinTech Hive, Dubai. We are in beta, and we say so. Every number on our site is a real platform figure, every verification check runs against live registries, and every NDA is DIAC-arbitrated. We would rather earn trust slowly with working infrastructure than borrow it with logos and press releases. Questions about how anything works — verification, deal rooms, data handling — reach us at hello@hockystick.app and we answer directly.