Capital City Times
In the world of startup funding, the traditional venture capital model is starting to show its age.
Pitch decks. Months of meetings. Equity dilution. Founders chasing money instead of building. It's a process that rewards connections over capability—and often kills the product before it ever gets to market.
Incubater Capital isn’t playing that game. They’re rewriting it.
Founded by Nathan Chen and Will Nicholson, Incubater isn’t just another venture firm. It’s a systems-level upgrade to how early-stage companies raise money—without losing ownership, time, or control. Their model, called the Community Liquidity Offering (CLO), is designed around the founder, not the fund.
And it works.
Instead of begging for capital from gatekeepers, founders using a CLO raise from aligned communities that believe in the product early. They don’t give up equity. They don’t dilute control. And they don’t spend six months pitching instead of building. They build—and raise as a byproduct of execution.
It’s the kind of model the traditional venture world should have created. But didn’t.
Where legacy VCs operate top-down and move slow, Incubater moves fast and surgically. It’s not just the model that’s different—it’s the mindset. These are operators who understand the market, know how to scale, and have built the infrastructure founders actually need.
They’ve created a brand that’s becoming a trust signal. Projects that launch through Incubater are gaining exposure, traction, and credibility—not because of PR spins or token hype, but because the structure works. The market reacts. The validation is organic. And in many cases, capital ends up chasing the startup.
In short: it flips the power dynamic.
That’s what makes Incubater dangerous. Not because they’re breaking the rules—but because they’re making better ones. The kind founders would have written if they had the power.
This isn’t a crypto play. It’s not a VC fund wrapped in trend-bait. This is venture built for the post-VC era—transparent, fast, founder-first, and rooted in community logic, not institutional dogma.
For early-stage founders tired of running uphill, Incubater Capital might be the first real shortcut that doesn’t cost you everything.
Founders should take note. The old way isn’t just broken. It’s obsolete.
