Pre-Seed Funding & Startup AI Tools

Investing Through DreamForge
Each year, DreamForge will invest a minimum of $10,000 in early-stage ventures led by founders from underrepresented backgrounds.
We look for teams building tools and systems that strengthen communities — whether through data, technology, or civic innovation.

Investments are made on founder-friendly terms and paired with hands-on mentorship, access to our accelerator, and a community of peers.

Think your venture aligns with our mission?

Check out our investment criteria and if your product and positioning fit reach out through our contact page to learn more.

Pro-Bono or Paid Advice

Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a your social impact passion into a thriving venture. Maybe you want help with your grantmaking or nonprofit technologies and processes. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. We’ve helped some of the largest and most successful companies, NGOs, and Philanthropic Institutions in the world. It’s our passion and mission to help you too. We can work with you and your team to create new strategies for your corporate social responsibility (even for small startups), new products and product roadmaps, refreshed visions for existing product lines, project plans for validating product concepts, new social impact programs, and more. We provide Pro-Bono advice for those who need it, paid advice at a rate of $150 per hour or as an advisor for small equity grants. And we engage in larger custom engagements.

Tech for Good Bootcamp

A hands-on course teaching leaders how to design, fund, and launch technology that creates positive social impact. Developed and led by Brandolon Barnett, the bootcamp is targeted to nonprofit leaders and government staff. It blends real-world case studies, product design methods, and impact frameworks used across philanthropy, government, and the private sector. It concludes with a pitch competition where these leaders create solutions that could help them in their roles, in the process taking on the mindset of technologists. Attendees leave empowered with the same tools large tech companies are using to transform work and our world at large, enabling them to use those same powerful tools not just for profit - but for good.