They might call themselves bootstrappers, indie hackers, makers, and a bunch of other fun names—but the common thread is they are trying to build profitable companies that balance sustainability with growth and treat their employees and customers incredibly well.

I’m here to invite you to join me as an owner in the long-term upside of our mission at Earnest Capital.

From day one, Earnest Capital has been built by and for entrepreneurs. We have over 200 investors in our first two funds, the vast majority of which are entrepreneurs themselves and are allocating time from their busy schedules to mentor the founders we are lucky enough to back and invest in.

While what we’re doing might sound like common sense—who wouldn’t want to invest in entrepreneurs building profitable software and software-enabled businesses, there are actually shockingly few professional funding options for founders who want to go this route.

This means we’ve had to rethink and rebuild almost every aspect of running a fund—from how we ask founders to pitch us (asynchronously and on their own time in what we call Trailhead), to our investment structure, the Shared Earnings Agreement (which is aligned with building profitable companies, even if you never sell), to our approach to community and mentorship—everything has been rebuilt from the ground up.

Although it’s still early days for us, since going live 2 years ago, we’ve invested in over 35 companies, we’ve seen enough of them already become profitable enough to send what we call shared earnings back to our investors, and seen one company exit profitably.

The capital we raise here will help us retain and grow our incredible team and continue investing in building the tools for modern entrepreneurship.

We believe we’re in the middle of a huge transition where the majority of new businesses will be software or software-enabled companies that need a partner like Earnest Capital.

This investment will help us grow quickly, stay focused on the long term, and ultimately be able to back hundreds and maybe thousands of entrepreneurs every year.

Although we will continue to raise more and larger investment funds to keep investing in more companies, this is potentially the only opportunity for investors like you to own a piece of what is essentially my equity in the management company at Earnest Capital, which will see upside across all our current, past, and future funds.

I really hope you’ll join us.

And the 4 of us came together about 6 months ago to work on software for small business owners. But we didn’t have a need at first, so we just went out and talked to all the small business owners we could find. After over 100 interviews, we came across a really interesting problem with small business restaurants in an area like this, Palo Alto.

Yeah, so it turns out restaurants in Palo Alto don’t deliver, even though they really want to, but they can’t afford it. But their consumers are craving for it, but the places that the consumers love just can’t deliver. And we also found out about these delivery drivers who had a ton of spare time, and they all want to earn extra cash during that downtime.

And so that’s when we built an initial product, PaloAltoDelivery.com. And how it works is the customer goes to the website and places an online order that gets automatically sent to the restaurant. And then we, as the dispatchers, with some pretty neat routing and batching algorithms, were able to send the drivers efficiently to get the orders to the customers in a really fast time.

Yeah, and the four of us started out as delivery drivers. And over time we hired more as we grew. In our first month of launch, with not much marketing, we got over 150 paying customers in the Palo Alto area, which is really awesome. And from that we generated over $10,000 in sales.

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And now with over 20,000 monthly active users, many of which who work full-time in VR every week, Immersed has become the top productivity app in the highly curated Oculus store.

We’ve raised almost $4 million dollars to date, $2 million of which came from our record-breaking crowdfunding campaign right here on Wefunder this past summer, where we raised $1 million in just 4 hours and the rest in the next couple of days. And since then, we’ve 20x’d our active user base and 7x’d our revenue organically, which all collectively helped me to become this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30.

Our team consists of some of the world’s top engineers from places like Google, Microsoft, YC, and top Andreessen Horowitz-backed startups.

We’ve built an extremely compelling product, which is why thousands of users work in VR full-time today. As soon as you enter Immersed, you’re surrounded with 5 high-quality, low-latency screens that are virtual, wireless, and portable, and pair with your Mac, PC, or Linux computer, to have you enter a mode of deep work more frequently and for longer periods of time. And as soon as you want to collaborate with your remote team, they can teleport into your office as if you were side by side. You can share one or as many screens as you want, and you can even whiteboard with them remotely. We’re building a future where someday you can put on a pair of Facebook or Apple glasses and teleport into the office as if you were physically there in person, without the need of any sort of commute.

Our team, as well as tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, etc know that this is the inevitable future, which is why they’re pouring billions of dollars into this next generation of computing. So we’d love for you to partner with us as we build the future of work. Here’s a trailer to show you what Immersed looks like today.

[A trailer and product demo commences]