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Calm Fund General Partner Tyler Tringas takes a look at Calm Company Fund's progress five years since the first investment

Introducing Calm Company Catalyst a platform to catalyze direct investments in Calm Companies, unlocking new opportunities to support founders.

Fireside chats, foraging, hikes, and survival workshops were just a few of the agenda items at this year's Founder Summit.

Our approach for investing in calm companies despite turbulent market conditions

We often get asked why we started Founder Summit, what it took to get it off the ground, and importantly, would we do it again? Here are some answers

Girls in Marketing provide education and community to women in marketing roles

Calm Company Fund invests in expert insight platform Terkel

Pitch Gauge is an all-in-one roofing app designed to bring safety to job sites.

Interview Now is modernizing the hiring process for government agencies and first responders.

A look at all the companies and founders we invested in in 2021.

The Calm Company Team reflects on the last quarter of 2021.

Calm Company Fund scout programme is here. Our scout program is an explicit on-ramp to becoming an investor at Calm Company Fund.

Being a founder is hard and to navigate the numerous roles and tasks that are needed of you, being resilient and able to deal with discomfort is key.

Our first Summit landed in Mexico City in October 2021. Here's a summary of what we got up to.

Writing is one of the most high leverage things a founder can do. Here are some top tips for getting going.

Calm advisory boards (“calm boards”) are now available to any Calm Company Fund portfolio company. Want to join as a board member? Share your info.

This year we set out to find a new name and brand that matches the scope of our long-term ambition. We're excited to share that Earnest Capital is now the Calm Company Fund!

We’re throwing a summit for founders of calm companies, co-hosted with our friends at SureSwift Capital, October 24-27th, 2021 in Mexico City!

Earnest Capital Fund 3 will open on a quarterly basis beginning 1 July 2021 (pre-commitments accepted now).

Calm Company Express enables later stage founders ($1m+ in ARR) near/at profitability to take as much of the cash as they want “off the table” in a secondary.

From day one it has been clear that the opportunity is absolutely enormous to build a new kind of capital + community + mentorship for bootstrappers, makers, indie hackers, and builders of calm companies. As we prove out our model, we’re backing a tiny fraction of the number of entrepreneurs we could, and one day will be, backing.

Reilly Chase’s company HostiFi was the first company we ever invested in from Calm Company Fund 1.

Co-investing at the Calm Company.

Calm Company Fund is a leading investor in companies built with no-code tools.

Here's how you can become an investor at the Calm Company Fund.

Conversion Crimes, get unfiltered feedback on how people are using your site, where they get stuck and what they love. Use this feedback to improve user experience and conversions.

Documentor, electronic visit verification (EVV) compliant service documentation solutions.

EnjoyHQ, get all your user research data in one place, speed up your analysis process and share insights easily.

Fixturfab, provides test fixture solutions for circuit boards, that makes testing hardware easier.

Scripto, make your show together, from anywhere.

An overview of how we approach mentorship here at the Calm Company Fund.

HOA Life, automate and simplify CC&R violation inspections and enforcement for HOAs.

Mailbrew, personalized email digests from your favorite sources like Reddit, Twitter, Google News, and more.

After explaining Shared Earnings Agreements to literally 1,000s of founders and investors, we’ve made a few clarifying changes.

Here are the several core questions I ask myself when working on an investment decision for the Calm Company Fund.

At the core of every business is a problem it solves or value it creates. It’s critical that entrepreneurs learn to explain to customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders what the value proposition is and how your product creates that value.

We’re sharing at least 20% of all carry/profits from the Calm Company Fund with our team and early investors via a nifty credit system on the way to re-inventing modern funding for entrepreneurs.

In addition to reviewing & signing the subscription documents, we need two additional elements of documentation from investors.

Capital commitments to Calm Fund 2 can be made on a quarterly basis and will be called regularly at the start of each quarter.

We’re updating how commitments are made to the Calm Company Fund and making them a quarterly subscription product. Read more about how and why you should get involved.

A more practical addendum to our views on mentorship with FAQs about becoming a mentor to the Calm Company Fund portfolio companies.

ManyRequests, full-stack SaaS for productized services: build service booking forms, manage teams and orders.

A downloadable spreadsheet to help founders figure out how much capital does their business needs to get to Founder Break-even (ie., Monthly Recurring Revenue covers founders' living expenses).

JetBoost, no-code Boosters (add-ons) for Webflow.

Cachix, save build time and redistribute software for Nix users.

So in this scenario, you’ve got a nice software business that’s maybe not a rocket ship but it’s growing steadily, some base level of monthly recurring revenue, and customers are fairly happy and stick around.

In March 2020, we sat down with the entire community of founders, mentors, and LPs to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting their business, how founders are feeling, and guidance on how to move forward during a global pandemic.

One of the most common questions we get about our Shared Earnings Agreement terms is “what’s the deal with the Founder Earnings Threshold?”

Part of launching any new financing instrument is increasing the number of investors that are comfortable using it for investments.

At Earnest, a core thesis is that there are many overlooked and underserved opportunities for technology-enabled products that are deemed “too niche” by the venture capital community.

A public draft of the investment memo for the second Calm Fund

An interesting aspect of running a fund is that I am both raising money from high net worth individuals and institutional investors and speaking to founders who are raising money from investors like me.

I incorporated my first real business entity in 2010. Every part of the process of setting up a business—incorporation, opening a bank account, setting up payroll, etc—was a horrifically inefficient and expensive experience to me.

One of our primary areas of focus at Calm Company Fund is a software as a service built by and for specific industries. We’ve made several investments in the B2B SaaS space and feel it’s a great market that aligns with our model.

At Calm Company Fund, we are big fans of platforms that enable entrepreneurs to build profitable, scalable, remote-friendly businesses.

These days it’s common for venture funds to raise an “opportunity fund,” a separate fund that sits alongside the main fund so they can invest more cash the performers in their portfolio. These funds are about opportunities for the fund. I want to talk about opportunities for founders.

Want to to co-invest alongside the Calm Company Fund in future investments? Learn more and apply.

Makerpad, the hub of the No-Code community: tutorials, jobs, and more.

Answer some common questions from investors looking to use a SEAL themselves, those considering co-investing with us, and comparing a SEAL to a SAFE.

Calm Company Fund is proud to back Wholesale Gorilla, which allows any Shopify store to seamlessly serve wholesale customers.

Our podcast interview with the upside.fm team and Kevin McArdle of SureSwift Capital.

Calm Company Fund has been live for two months and we have been slowly working our way through conversations with hundreds of amazing founders.

So is the Calm Company Fund live yet?

Request for Startups is a series of posts outlining a few specific theses that we feel are likely to hold good business opportunities for founders that are aligned with our goals.

Everything we learned about building a fund for calm companies and bootstrappers.

We received a ton of good hard questions about the Calm Company Fund Shared Earnings Agreement, particularly around “how do the numbers actually work?”.

Tyler Tringas sat down with Justin Jackson to talk about the problems we’re trying to solve with the Calm Company Fund.

Help us build funding for calm companies and bootstrappers that work for founders, investors, mentors, and the Calm Company Fund.

Calm Company Fund IV & Founder Liquidity Fund I are both currently open to new LPs. Sign up >