Capital is the smallest part of the ask.
Kerty Levy is the Managing Director of Techstars Anywhere — the person leading this program and reviewing this application. Her background includes running Techstars Crypto Boston, a program explicitly focused on Gaming and Creator Economy. This is not pattern-matching from a distance — it is direct domain expertise at the MD level.
Misti Cain, Managing Director of Techstars San Diego powered by SDSU and former Venture Partner at Techstars Anywhere, published her investment thesis around Commerce, Consumer, and the Creator Economy — asking specifically: 'not sure which monetisation model will be most enticing to creators?' StreamFuse answers that question directly. Techstars portfolio company MyARC (creator training platform) raised £1.5M in 2025 — a directly comparable exit in the same vertical.
Our GTM seeds large Discord gaming servers (50K+ members). Misti Cain's published thesis calls out "Social Media, Networking & Community Platforms" as a creator economy sub-sector of direct interest. A single warm intro into a 50K-member gaming Discord from a Techstars mentor accelerates creator acquisition by weeks — this is the exact network-effect seeding Techstars Anywhere's network is built for. This cannot be bought with ad spend.
StreamFuse's Reputation Protocol is a tamper-proof creator credit score — every collaboration outcome and peer rating written to an immutable ledger that no platform, including us, can alter. Creators build verified trust histories that travel with them. Advertisers get brand-safety due diligence that did not exist before StreamFuse. This is our long-term moat. We need an advisor who has shipped reputation or trust infrastructure at scale to stress-test the architecture before public launch. Techstars' network provides this without a full-time hire.
Anywhere's cohort structure matches StreamFuse's product philosophy — asynchronous, timezone-first, location-agnostic. The founding team operates on US Eastern hours and is committed to the full program schedule. Operating across timezones from day one is not a constraint. It is proof of concept for a product built to connect people across exactly these kinds of coordination gaps.
We are not looking for a cheque. The $220K matters. The network matters more. Specifically: a warm intro to one major gaming Discord community, one brand partnership contact in the creator space, and one mentor who has shipped community or reputation infrastructure at scale. Techstars Anywhere is the only programme where all three live in the same room.