Tonic Fund
Fayetteville, AR · Website
Check size
🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
Member-driven regional angel investment fund focused on building the Northwest Arkansas entrepreneurial ecosystem. Tonic provides democratized access to early-stage deals for its members while co-investing with established VCs to support the most promising Arkansas-based startups.
Likely not a fit for
Not focused on non-Arkansas startups; check sizes too small for companies seeking large institutional lead rounds.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually follows
- Typical decision
- ~1 month
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Observer
- Fund status
- Between funds
- Decision process
- Investment Committee
Partners & team
5 contacts on file
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