Join the Alliance

Make the pledge

If your company has chosen to build without venture capital, make that commitment visible.

Submissions are reviewed by hand against the membership standard. Expect a reply within a few days. Your contact email is used only to reach you — it is never published in the registry.

Your company

Company name

Website

What you build One or two sentences. This appears in your registry listing.

How you are funded

Everything in this section is optional. The pledge is about what you have not taken; how you did fund the company is yours to share or keep. Skip the whole section if you prefer.

Funding model — optional; select any that apply

Anything we should know about your funding Optional, and not published. Tell us here if any of it sits near the line — an accelerator, a SAFE, a convertible note, an investor who could be mistaken for a fund.

Your reasons

Why you build without VC Optional. Published with your listing, in your own words. There is no correct answer — see Why.

The registry

List my company in the public NOVC registry. Uncheck to join without a public listing. You keep the pledge and the emblem either way; you simply will not appear in the directory. Your contact details are never published in either case.

The pledge

We have not accepted venture capital and commit not to accept venture capital while participating in the NOVC Alliance.

We will use the NOVC emblem only while that commitment remains true.

If we decide to accept venture capital, we will withdraw from the Alliance, stop using the emblem, and request removal from the registry.

We will notify our customers through an email or public announcement. That communication will disclose the funding and explicitly state that we are withdrawing from the NOVC Alliance.

I am a founder or authorized representative of this company, and I make this pledge on its behalf.

Your name

Your email Not published. Used to confirm your listing.