This Week’s Idea: Turning Shower Thoughts Into Startups, Funding Big Brains in Small Apps, and Why Your Next Investor Might Be a Stranger on the Internet

In today’s email:

• 🧨 Startups raising this week 💸

• 🆒 Cool, you’re saving…a charity? 🤔

• 💡 Your ideas deserve a paycheck ✅ 

🚀 STARTUPS RAISING THIS WEEK 💸

Used cars…Economic downturns…Valuations getting totaled?

Kavak says: “Don’t worry, we’re still driving—just with a few dents.”

The Mexico based car marketplace was once cruising at a shiny $8.7B valuation. Then came layoffs, expansion stalls, and a $6.5B drop. Isn’t that just lovely?

Brutal.

Now? They’ve raised $127M in equity and locked in two $200M debt facilities, with General Catalyst and Softbank still in the passenger seat. An IPO is the goal. But that won’t be for another 3-5 years.

Guess what? They’re still buying, selling, and plotting the last mile of a comeback.

Butter Ideas is going to call it: Startup whiplash, but make it venture-backed. 

Zoom!

🆒 COOL, YOU’RE SAVING… A CHARITY? 🤔

Charity spam calls, forgotten donations, “Did I really give $50 to Save the Possums USA?”

Bono says: “Yuh, time to fix giving.”

Founded after a sketchy telemarketer call (very true story, I was there and heard the whole conversation on speaker), Bono is the modern donation platform that finally makes philanthropy feel like a product. Not a chore.

You pick the causes and Bono handles the rest. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Bono does this with monthly plans starting at $5, a slick mobile app, and AI matchmaking that pairs you with charities. Isn’t that just lovely?

Bono also just raised $1.6M to launch publicly — led by Progression Fund and execs from Amazon, Google, and X.

They’ve got 1.5M charities onboard, weekly impact reports, and even pay creators to spread the good word (or let them donate their cut).

Butter Ideas thinks, Duolingo for Doing Good…minus the guilt owl. A digital, shared, secure, and changing record.

Don’t worry, you’re not the owl. 💔🦉

💡 YOUR IDEAS DESERVE A PAYCHECK 💰✅

Friends and family. Every billionaire started with an idea.

And you? You’ve had five today. One in the shower, one during that boring Teams call, and another while angrily peeling a banana.

Then another two reading this weeks idea.

Not going to lie, some bananas are impossible to peel.

But where do they go?

Nowhere. Into the void. The digital junk drawer of billion dollar ideas.

Well, not anymore. Thanks to Butter Ideas, people are launching them faster and better.

You’ve been missing out on some of the cool stuff people are working on in the background. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Introducing: ButterDrop (working title… or is it genius?). It’s the app where you upload your best startup ideas — and the crowd doesn’t just like them.

THEY FUND THEM.

👻 Think: “Shark Tank” Meets Product Hunt Meets LinkedIn, but for Ideas.

Here is how it all unfolds. Ready or not here I come.

You:

• Upload your spicy idea to the ButterDrop ideas app.

• Write it like you just drank 3 Red Bulls and believe in your wings.

• Maybe mock up a logo in Canva.

• Maybe also upgrade to Butter Ideas for higher chance of success.

• Definitely refer 5 friends to Butter Ideas.

• Hit publish.

The Community:

• Community upvotes the idea.

• Community DM’s each other and talks about the idea.

• Everyone shares.

• Here is the kicker — drops micro-funding on it like Twitch donations.

🆕 New Idea, Shut Up and Take my Money!

The amazing community at ButterDrop can follow along, pledge money, or even mark “I’d buy this right now.”

Talk about product market fit…

Product market fit is the sexiest phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Again, sorry I don’t make the rules.

ButterDrop founders get validation before building. Backers get early access, equity, or karma points. And investors? They just got 10,000 new pitch decks without sitting through another sad WeWork knockoff.

Yes, we are building the stock market for ideas. You’re welcome.

🤔 Imagine Reddit for Business Ideas…

So yeah. Your half baked idea for “a wearable that shocks you if you’re ghosting people’s emails” might now actually get funding.

Then suddenly ghosting gets expensive.

💡 Idea to IPO Pipeline in Your Pocket

I know that not all your ideas will turn into the next Uber. But even if 1% do, this app becomes a unicorn factory. 🦄

Because Ideas don’t die from being bad — they die from staying in your Notes app.

Let’s build a world where every idea has a shot at graduating from your Notes app.

Oh, and if you steal this idea and upload it to ButterDrop… we will know. 😉

Butter Ideas Pro Tip:

Share with your friends, family, parents, and or enemies. But please share.

They might just think you are the most innovative person in the room, but they won’t know your secret. I got you.

P.S: Welcome friends, we are hiring. Our community is growing, so looking for help! We love you, see you next week!

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— Danny

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