u/DhowDaddy

Salaam Dhow Family.

We’ll keep this short and sweet.

Our team fought hard to get $10,000 minimums. In fact, we were advised against it by many in the industry.

But our mission is to get our community off the sidelines and into the private markets.

The reality is we are regulatory constrained in the number of $10,000 spots we can offer (shoutout to the SEC). And those spots have filled fast, even faster than we expected. For that, we are grateful to our community, to our supporters.
We have allocation in two great companies secured, with many more in the pipeline.

Complete your non-binding commitment here, and our team will reach out to help you secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/eCnqDhvB

Once you do so, we are happy to hop on a call. We will continue raising for Dhow Horizon Fund I, but those $10,000 spots will be gone.

Jazakallah, and we look forward to building a new future for our people together.

Due to outsized demand, we have a limited number of $10,000 spots left in Dhow Horizon Fund I (this is for regulatory reasons)

After recent events, my brothers and I built Dhow. Our community needs to take greater control of our own capital.

Our first product, Dhow Horizon Fund I, is a $5M institutional-grade seed fund backing values-aligned tech founders from our community across North America.

Most VC funds require $250K+ minimums. We're opening access at $10,000.

A few weeks in, we already have two institutional commitments and active dealflow. The app goes live in the coming days, inshAllah.

Non-binding commitment link:

https://dhow.decilehub.com/pacts?pid=WnWyEqJK

You can also join the waitlist for the free app (additional features beyond investing) at: https://dhow.app/

Happy to hop on a call to walk through the thesis. And please share with anyone in your network who might be interested.

Reflecting on one post I've seen on here recently.

Why is it that when it comes to ambition we find non-muslims exceeding us? (related to this dunya).

We should strongly believe that our Lord provides both in this world and the hereafter.

As the other post was saying, building prayer apps, calendar, islamic applications is great and may Allah facilitate the affairs and reward heavily of anyone doing so.

Let's also build the drive to own the next payment processors, social medias, AI models, infrastructure, and even rocket businesses.

I'm thinking about building an accelerator for Muslim founders in London. Anyone that might be interested?

Straight up. Not meme coins. No rug pull. No fake commitments.

I'm talking about real halal utility projects, with a clear timeline and growth plan.

The money would be earned via the buy and sell tax for each transaction which would be explicitly stated.

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Salaam everyone 👋 - Wanted to share something we’ve been building toward for a while.

We’re launching Dhow Horizon Fund I, a $5M early-stage venture fund focused on backing high-upside technology companies with Muslim-origin founders.

The thesis is simple: there’s a lot of serious founder talent across the Ummah, but early-stage capital is still fragmented. Strong Muslim founders are building in massive markets, yet many don’t have access to the right investor networks early enough. At the same time, a lot of Muslim investors want exposure to private markets and founder-led opportunities, but the best deals are usually crowded by the time they become widely visible.

That gap is what pushed us to move from just writing about companies through Dhow Dispatch to actually allocating.

With Horizon Fund I, we’re aiming to build a concentrated portfolio of ~16 pre-seed and seed-stage companies. We’re looking for founders with early traction, large markets, strong founder-market fit, and signs of real differentiation.

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Our focus is broad: AI, robotics, healthcare, biotech, climate, space, fintech infrastructure, industrial automation, core software, and other venture-scale categories. We’re also open to consumer products and brands, including food, drinks, apparel, and lifestyle products, as long as there’s strong early traction and the potential to become a category-defining company.

We’re already plugged into founder communities, accelerators, and early-stage ecosystems across the US and beyond. We’ve also secured our first institutional, value-aligned investment.

On the product side, the Dhow app is already in beta and should be live on the App Store next week. The goal is to bring founders, investors, research, and opportunities into one ecosystem built around community-aligned capital.

Long term, we want Dhow to become infrastructure for Muslim economic ownership: our capital backing our people, our companies, and our future.

If you’re an accredited investor and want to learn more about investing in Dhow Horizon Fund I, feel free to DM me.

If you’re a founder building in line with this thesis, stay tuned. We’ll be sharing details soon on how to pitch us.

Disclaimer: This post is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer to sell securities. Any offering of interests in Dhow Horizon Fund I will be made only to verified accredited investors pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D and through definitive offering documents. Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal and no guarantee of returns.

We’re putting together our first $5M micro-fund, and I’m trying to think through LP minimums.

One option is setting the minimum around $10k so we can include more every day accredited retail investors, operators, founders, and angels who could be helpful beyond just writing a check. The obvious tradeoff is that more small LPs can mean more admin, more communication, and more headaches overall.

At what point does letting in smaller checks become a strength because you’re building a real network around the fund, and at what point does it just become a headache?

And if you saw a $10k minimum on a first fund, would that feel thoughtful and accessible, or would it make you question how serious the fund is?

Would love to hear from anyone who has written angel checks, invested as an LP, or raised a small fund before.