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The Best Reg CF Raises Don't Happen on a Marketplace. Here's Why We Built Something Different.ย
Hey crew,
Jose here with another Space Funding Newsletter.
When you list on StartEngine, Wefunder, or Republic, every investor who lands on your page can see 50 other deals. Space Funding gives you your own funnel, your own traffic, and your own close, no shared marketplace, no competing offers.
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๐๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฌ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐น๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ: https://bit.ly/4bzuWCiโย โ
WHAT IS REG CA
The Marketplace Problem Nobody Talks About
When you raise on a traditional crowdfunding marketplace, you are not just raising capital. You are generating investor traffic through your own marketing budget, your email list, your social following, your press, and then depositing that traffic into a platform that shows every visitor competing deals the moment they arrive.
An investor clicks your ad, lands on StartEngine, reads your pitch โ and sees a sidebar with three other raises, a featured deal banner, and an email from the platform recommending their top picks that week. You paid to get them there. The platform collects the relationship.
Check our demo below
That is the model every major marketplace runs on. It is also why conversion rates on marketplace listings average a fraction of what a dedicated funnel produces, and why the biggest raises of 2025 were built on self-hosted infrastructure, not marketplace listings.
SECTION 02
What Space Funding Actually Is
Space Funding is not a marketplace. We are an investor acquisition platform, the infrastructure layer that sits between your company and your investors, built entirely around one principle: every visitor your raise generates belongs to you, not to a platform.
Here is what that means in practice.
$210M+ Capital facilitated Reg CF ยท Reg A+ ยท Reg D | 350+ Campaigns completed Across all exemptions | 20% Higher conversion Self-hosted vs. marketplace |
300+ Traffic touchpoints In our media network | $75M Max raise supported Reg A+ SEC-qualified | $0 Hidden add-on fees Unlike DealMaker's $40K+ extras |
SECTION 03
Space Funding vs. The Marketplace Model
| What you get | Space Funding | Deal Maker | Start Engine | We Funder | Re public |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform type | Full service | Tech only | Marketplace | Marketplace | Selective mkt |
| Builds your funnel | โ | $20K extra | โ | โ | โ |
| Runs paid traffic for you | โ | $20K/campaign | โ | โ | โ |
| Email automation included | โ | partial | โ | โ | โ |
| No competing deals shown | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| AI raise optimization | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| You own investor data | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| All-in cost on $1M raise | Best price | $125K+ | ~$80K | ~$75K | ~$60K+ |
SECTION 05 | TAKE AWAY
Best Price in the Market; By Design
Marketplaces charge a percentage of every dollar raised, typically 5 to 8%, on top of platform fees, listing fees, and payment processing. On a $2M raise, that's $100,000 to $160,000 handed to the platform that was showing your investors other deals the whole time.
Space Funding is priced to be the most competitive all-in solution in the market. One engagement covers your funnel build, your traffic, your automation, and your raise management, and because we work on performance, our incentives are aligned with yours. We win when you close.
The marketplace model was built for the platform's growth, not yours.
Every dollar you spend driving traffic to a marketplace listing makes that marketplace more valuable to the next company that lists there. Your investors become their database. Your effort builds their network effect. We built Space Funding to invert that: your raise builds your investor community, your brand, and your cap table โ not ours. We are a service business, not a marketplace. Your success is the product.
"You spent money getting them there. You shouldn't lose them to a sidebar."
Who Space Funding Is Built For
We work with companies raising between $250K and $75M under Reg CF or Reg A+. If you are serious about closing โ not just listing โ and you want a system that generates investor traffic, converts it, and manages the raise end to end, that is exactly what we built.
We are growing fast because the founders who have been through a marketplace raise know what they lost.
And the founders who start with Space Funding do not have to learn that lesson the expensive way.
Let's build your raise. Book a time here
Excited times ahead.
Jose.
Founder & CEO
Space Funding
Helping founders navigate Reg CF, A+, and D like pros.
www.spacefunding.us
