Marcin Drozdz on the Inner Circle.
*Self-reported by M1 clients.
Appearances and coverage only. Not endorsements.
We tried all of the above first. Twenty-plus years, millions spent on paid media, broker-dealers, commissions, agencies, every strategy you can name. What survived is the system we install in your business and hand to your team. Flat fee. Never a percentage of what you raise. Never a piece of your deal. The heavy lifting is already done.
So we make you the operator investors want to back, before they ever see a deal. Then the meetings book themselves.
No pitching. No convincing.
No cold calls. No begging your network.
Trust does the closing.
The raise runs on your team's hours, not yours.
Not a course. Not coaching. We build the capital raising system in your business, with you, and hand it to you. You keep the system. You keep the relationships.
Every raise runs on the same four parts. Here is what each one does for you once it's in.
Investors are sold on you before the deal.
Qualified investor meetings, every week.
There are three ways to find investors. We put all three to work for you, and add a fourth.
*What's available depends on your exemption. Under 506(b) you can't advertise or publicly solicit; under 506(c) you can, to verified accredited investors only. Verify with your own securities attorney.
Interest turns into wired money.
You stop being the bottleneck.
You have more tools than you think: 506(b) and 506(c), syndications, funds, co-GP structures, private debt. Each one has rules about who you can talk to, what you can say, and where you can say it. Used right, those rules are the moat between you and everyone who wings it.
We've spent 20+ years at the intersection of all of it: 1,000+ fund managers, operators and syndicators, and dozens of securities attorneys, accountants and fund administrators. We've seen what works, what doesn't, and what gets people in trouble. The system we install is built inside the lines from day one.
We're not your lawyer. Your securities attorney papers it. You walk into that conversation knowing exactly what you're building.
Your network and relationships. No general solicitation.
Advertise openly. Verified accredited investors only.
The structure that fits your raise and how you get paid.
Notes and lending, with rules of their own.
If private capital flows into it, it works.
The asset class changes. The system doesn't.
You already understand your business. Capital still feels harder than it should. Three kinds of people join the Inner Circle.
If the basics are your constraint, this is the wrong program. If you are the constraint, it's the right one.
Not sure you're a fit? Apply anyway.
You leave the call with a capital raising roadmap, fit or not.
No celebrities. People who installed the system and raised. A sample.
M1 helped us take what we'd already built operationally and make it investor ready. We finally have a system, not just hustle.
Being part of M1 gave us the structure, guidance and clarity to scale beyond what we thought was possible. We had the discipline. Now we have the system.
Being part of this group will cut ten years off your learning curve. I was always chasing the money. Now I have more people reaching out to me.
I went home, created my media kit exactly like Marcin's one-pager, and got myself onto a stage this Wednesday. It really works.
After the mentoring with M1, I'm more confident. I feel like the sky is bluer than before.
I was looking for strategies. I found a community and a framework that truly transformed my approach and changed my business mindset.
And hundreds more operators, fund managers and syndicators. Probably a lot like you.
Results shown are not typical and are not a guarantee or projection of similar outcomes. Individual results vary based on experience, effort, capital available, market conditions, deal quality, team and execution. All figures are self-reported and may represent soft, verbal or hard commitments. Not all represent collected or deployed capital. Read the full disclaimer at the bottom of this page.
Marcin Drozdz started raising capital in 2008, for one of the preeminent multifamily developers and acquirers in North America, and launched his first eight-figure fund in 2010 on the tail of the crash. Since then: multiple nine figures raised personally, over $3 billion closed by the M1 team, and eight funds running on this exact system, with M1's own money on the line.
Why run a program at all? The network. It's where M1's partners and deals come from.
When the money is waiting on the deal, you set the terms. Raise against a closing date and you pay for speed with ownership: a capital partner who wants a piece of the GP, a sweetened pref, a cut to whoever brings the investors. That's the price of needing the money.
Line the investors up first and the leverage flips. You choose who comes in, on what terms, and how much of the deal stays yours. Almost nobody talks about this part of capital raising. It's a big part of what we build with you, and your securities attorney papers it.
You get the deal, then go door to door for the capital.
Investors are ready before the deal. You set the terms.
Live events and a community of 1,000+ operators, fund managers, GPs and LPs who are actively doing deals. The relationships are yours. No fees, no commissions on what comes out of them.
Built for compliant raising: 506(b) versus 506(c), what you can say publicly, and when to bring in your securities attorney. We're not your lawyer. Your attorney handles the paperwork.
Where you stand at each milestone.
Raise target set. Plan in hand.
On paper and on screen, you look like the operator investors back.
Every week. People who can write the check.
Commitments are in. You know exactly how your team runs it, scales it and tightens it.
Your team runs it. You read the pipeline in five minutes. The next raise is already warm.
Timeline reflects the engagement plan, not a guarantee of outcomes. Individual results vary with experience, effort, capital available, market conditions and execution. Full disclaimer below.
You don't need a pitch deck to apply.
Tell us about your deal, your fund, or the raise you're planning.
Where you are. Where you want to be. What's in the way.
The plan we'd run for your raise, yours to keep. Run it on your own, or have us install it.
Kickoff. Ninety days later, it runs without you.
Flat fee. More than software, less than a part-time employee. Never a percentage of what you raise. Never a piece of your deal. You keep everything we install into your business.
No, but be careful with the word. You don't need to have raised capital before. Plenty of members come in never having raised a dollar. What you do need is a real business behind you: a portfolio, a company, a practice, or a track record in something people already pay you for. A doctor, a dentist, a business owner or a high-net-worth professional who has never raised is not a beginner here. You're exactly who this was built for. The one profile it isn't for is someone new to real estate and new to business at the same time. If that's you, start with the book and the YouTube channel. Same thinking, right pace and price.
A flat fee. More than a monthly software subscription, less than a part-time employee. Whether you're raising $1,000,000 or $10,000,000, we don't take a percentage of what you raise or a piece of your deals, and you keep everything we install into your business.
No. And here's something every operator needs to hear: if anyone tells you they'll raise capital for you, make sure they're a licensed broker-dealer. Expect 5%–10% commission on what they raise, plus a piece of the backend. If someone offers to do it for a small upfront fee or "next to nothing," be skeptical. If they're not a broker-dealer? Run. We don't raise for you. We install the system inside your business so you can raise for yourself, at scale, with compliance built in and your attorney's sign-off.
No, and be careful with anyone who does. Raising capital is a regulated activity, and the outcome depends on your deal, your execution and the market. Nobody can promise you a wire. What you get is the system built inside your business in the first 90 days, operators who run it on their own funds working alongside you, and a straight answer up front about whether you're a fit, so neither of us wastes a dollar or a quarter.
No. Some of our best clients come to us before the deal, to line up the investor relationships first. Dig the well before you're thirsty. When the right deal shows up, the capital conversation is already underway, and you're not starting from zero with a closing date on the calendar.
Tighter, not too late. The first pieces go live in week one, and some members have closed commitments inside their first month. What we won't do is pretend a timeline works when it doesn't. Put the closing date on your application and you'll get a straight answer on the call about what's realistic before it, and what the system does for the deal after it.
Good instinct, and a question most programs avoid. The system we install is built around compliant capital raising practices. We're clear about the line between marketing and solicitation, 506(b) vs 506(c) implications, what you can and can't say publicly, and when to involve your securities counsel. We're not your lawyer. We're the operators who've raised capital for 20 years with securities counsel in the loop. Your attorney handles the paperwork. We handle the system.
Because we're owner-operators running a real business, at a level most programs only talk about. M1 Real Capital is a live deal execution business. Our founder has 20+ years in the industry, raised multiple nine figures in private capital, and his team has closed over $3 billion in transactions. Most programs are run by someone who raised money once, in one market, off the strength of their own relationships. Our system has been built and run across eight different funds, with multiple partners, in multiple industries and sectors. That's the proof it's not personality-dependent.
The network effect. Because we run this program, we've built relationships with over 1,000 operators, syndicators, and fund managers, which is incredibly valuable. It exposes us to opportunities and credible operators looking to collaborate. The mandate is dual: we add real value from our own experience, and we find people and opportunities worth partnering with in the future.
We're running this system live today, with our own money and our investors' money on the line. When the market shifts, the system adapts because it has to. That's the difference between a training company and an operating company that installs its system inside yours.
Most members don't when they start. That's part of what gets built. In the first 90 days the system runs with you and the IC team on it, and the AI layer handles the research, the follow-up and the reporting, so the hours it needs from a person are small. By Day 60 you know exactly which pieces need a human, and whether that's an assistant you already have, a part-time hire, or a partner. You don't need to hire anyone to start. And we build the roles around the rules: the people who run it can't be paid a cut of what they raise, so they aren't. Your securities attorney confirms it.
Yes. A big part of the work is deal structuring on the capital raising side: how the raise is put together so you retain more of the ownership and give less away to investors, while still being an offer investors say yes to. Your securities attorney papers it. We help you design it.
No. The operators who get the most out of this are the ones who have already raised and hit a ceiling. The work is on the system: where your pipeline breaks, what happens to the capital once it lands, and how the raise runs without you in every conversation. If the basics are your constraint, this is the wrong program. If you are the constraint, it's the right one.
Yes. A meaningful portion of our members are either launching their first fund or graduating from one-off deals into a fund model. We work with you on PPM strategy, fund structure, LP class design, investor onboarding, compliance awareness, and the positioning that makes a fund actually raiseable. We don't replace your securities attorney, but we make sure you walk into those conversations knowing exactly what you're building.
Yes, if you're serious about structuring it properly. A profitable business, and investors who already trust you, is exactly the starting point. You find out whether a fund, a co-GP structure or a syndication platform fits what you have, what it takes to get paid to run it, and the investor message to launch it. Structuring itself is legal work: your securities attorney papers it.
Yes. Most first raises start there, and the people who already trust you are the fastest capital you will ever raise. The system makes those relationships repeatable instead of one-off favors, and grows the circle from there. Compliance matters here, especially 506(b) versus 506(c) and what you can say to whom, which is where your securities attorney comes in.
No. Positioning means an investor can check you out and come away convinced, not that you post every day. Your owned audience is mostly a list and an email rhythm. Your borrowed audience is other people's rooms, where you show up as a guest. Paid audience is advertising that runs on a system, not on your personal brand. If you never want to film a video, you don't have to.
No. We install into what you have wherever it works and replace only the pieces that don't. If your CRM is fine, it stays. If your marketing person is good, they get the system and become more valuable, not redundant. What changes is that everything now runs to one investor message, one pipeline and one scoreboard, instead of a collection of tools nobody owns.
Everything we installed, in your accounts and your name: your investor message and Ideal Investor Profile, your list and the follow-up that keeps it warm, the meeting flow your team runs, the scoreboard, the AI doing the research and reporting, and the roles and weekly rhythm that keep it moving. If IC disappeared on Day 91, the raise would keep running. That's the point of installed, not taught.
It works better. Marcin started in this business during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. That was the default mode he learned under. When rates rise and capital tightens, operators without a system go quiet. They stop raising, wait for the market to turn, and lose a year of momentum. Operators with a system keep raising, because they know where the capital is, how to position the deal, and how to convert the conversation. Tight markets separate professionals from amateurs.
Plan on 3–5 hours a week minimum to get real traction: live sessions, implementation work, and the reps that move the needle. The operators who treat this as a side project get side project results. The ones who treat capital raising as a core function of their business get outsized returns.
Yes. Most operators come for the system and stay for the network. Through live events and online communities, you connect directly with fund managers, GPs, and LPs to collaborate with. We don't charge commissions, fees, or take any compensation on deals that come from those connections. The relationships are yours.
On the call, we map out how we'd run your raise if we were in your business. Take the plan and pursue it on your own, or see what it looks like to do it with us. Either way, you win.
For operators, fund managers and GPs raising $1M to $100M in private capital. Not for beginners, wholesalers, flippers, or anyone who wants someone else to raise for them.
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Kelley Clarke Law
Culbertson Holdings
Investor Marketing Platform
The Estella Agency
Raise Law
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