FromUs.to/Nora
The gift parents secretly hope for: A contribution to their future.
A head start fund for your kid that family can chip into. Notes, photos, and small money gifts all live on one URL. The money is invested for eighteen years in a low-cost global fund, so €25 today is around €100 by the time they’re grown.
What FromUs is for.
Give freely.
Birthdays, baby showers, christenings, random Tuesdays. The people who love your kid want to show up. FromUs is the one place where they can.
A note sealed for their eighteenth, a photo, a short video, or a few euros into the head start fund. One URL, every occasion, eighteen years of small things that add up to something real.
Anyone who wants to bring a present still can. Anyone who’d rather chip in a few euros, or both, also can. Whatever feels right.
Send what feels right. We'll keep it safe until the page opens for them.
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How small gifts add up.
We built the invest side because compounding over eighteen years is quietly absurd, and that kind of head start should be available to every kid, not just to families who already know how to set up a brokerage account.
Based on long-term global ETF returns (assumed 8% annualized, monthly compounding). Past performance is not a guarantee.
We're Ben & Kia, and we built this for our own kid.
Nora is on her way. As we got closer, the question of what we actually wanted for her got simpler. Not more stuff. A head start. Money set aside early, in a boring global fund, left alone long enough to grow into something real.
We also wanted the people who love her to have a clean way to chip in. Anyone who wants to bring a present still can. Anyone who’d rather hand over a few euros can. Some will do both. Whatever feels right, all on one URL.
Giving is the side everyone in the family sees, a single page for notes, photos and small money gifts. Investing is what happens behind the scenes: every euro on the Invest tier goes into the same Vanguard ETF our own savings for Nora sit in. No managers, no promises of outsized returns, just eighteen years of quiet compounding.
From the blog
Notes from the founders on giving, investing, money, and parenting.
Why €25 a month beats one big birthday gift
The grandparent who sends €25 every month for eighteen years gives more than the one who hands €600 once. Compounding plus discipline plus time.
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The €5 gift you'd love, vs the €20 gift you settled for
You see the perfect little thing. It costs €5. But the parents are friends, you can't show up with a €5 toy. So you spend €20 on something nobody actually wanted. The hardest-working money in gift-giving is the gap between those two.
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Kid fatigue after the 20th present (and the polite lie all three of us tell)
A four-year-old halfway through a pile of birthday gifts, glassy-eyed and ripping paper. The giver sees the kid doesn't want it. The kid wants to play. The parent wants gratitude. We all pretend this is fine.
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FromUs.to/Nora
Set up their page in minutes. On Invest, you pick a URL your child will own forever, like /lucas or /amelia. On Free and Collect we hand you a tender placeholder URL.