Inside the Weekend Fund’s $10M VC Stack

✨Hey there, tech stackers! 🚀

Today we’re stepping inside the world of Weekend Fund, a $10M early-stage fund run by Ryan Hoover (yes, the founder of Product Hunt). What’s striking? They run lean, automate intelligently, and use no-fluff tools to keep the fund personal and scalable.

Whether you're building a fund, running ops solo, or supporting a lean investing team—this is a minimalist stack worth studying.

💼 The Weekend Fund Stack (aka How to Run a $10M Fund Like a Startup)

This isn't a bloated ops machine. It's a thoughtfully selected system built for transparency, speed, and collaboration.

📬 Email & CRM

• Gmail
  Still the center of fund communication, integrated tightly with almost everything.

• Streak
  A lightweight CRM that lives inside Gmail. Used to track LP convos, founder relationships, and internal workflows without switching tools.

📁 Docs & Collaboration

• Notion
  The brain of the fund: memos, deal tracking, LP reports, internal processes, FAQs, etc.

• Google Drive
  Still their preferred place for sharing decks and spreadsheets.

• Loom
  Used for async founder updates and internal walkthroughs. Keeps team members aligned across time zones.

🤝 Community & Founder Support

• Slack
  The Weekend Fund runs a private Slack for founders. The channel is a hub for intros, templates, AMAs, and support requests.

• Zapier
  Automates form entries, tracks dealflow, routes submissions, and logs tasks into Notion. Invisible glue that saves dozens of hours.

🧮 Finance & Reporting

• Carta
  Manages cap tables, SAFEs, and equity positions across portfolio companies.

• Pulley
  Used by some portfolio companies for founder cap table management and fundraising prep.

• AngelList
  Their back-office for fund admin—distributions, capital calls, LP management.

✨ Founder Tools They Recommend

Beyond their own stack, the Weekend Fund actively recommends tools to founders:

• Tally – Form builder

• Canva – Design

• Typefully – Social media writing

• Superhuman – Email power-user tool

• Cal.com – Scheduling

• Linear – Issue tracking

💡 What Makes This Stack Work?

• 🧠 Centralized Knowledge (Notion + Zapier)
  Everything is documented. When something breaks or needs onboarding, it’s already written up.

• 📨 Founder-First Comms (Slack + Loom)
  Helps founders get support without long email chains.

• 🔌 Automation Everywhere
  From deal intake to LP onboarding, they cut friction with smart zaps and embedded workflows.

🤖 AI Prompt Tip

Founders aren’t the only ones who benefit from AI leverage—LP management and internal fund ops can too.

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Always remember,

Explore broadly
Not just SaaS or tech, but multiple disciplines.

Share ideas selflessly
Be willing to share your knowledge. Keep giving and it will come back to you.

Your stack is not going to save you
You are. So just build.

Go crush it,
Mark

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