We're founders with insane backgrounds who love games.
Eduard Oravkin
Co-founder at Medisearch.io
By day: Ex-Amazon/Microsoft ML researcher & building a YC-backed medical search engine.
By night: Running, poker player
Saurav Mitra
Co-founder/CTO at SigmaOS
By day: Imperial College & YC alumnus who raised $6M to build the most productive browser.
By night: Video games, boardgames, poker, foody
Lukas Koebis
Co-Founder/CTO at Causal
By day: Ex-Oxford grad & WhatsApp SWE who raised 20M to build the future of spreadsheet.
By night: Catan & Poker player
Mihai Crasneanu
Co-founder/CEO at Beem
By day: Previously 2x exits (6+ digits), now raised ~$8M to build a web3 streaming platform for creators.
By night: Catan & Poker player
Emmanouela Petsolari
Co-Founder/CEO at Stealth
By day: Built & raised in stealth for a biotech startup while doing her PhD at Cambridge.
By night: VR/AR games, boardgames
Maitham Mohammed
Co-Founder/CEO at Material10
By day: Ex-Amazon who raised ~2M to build games with country-level economies.
By night: League of Legends & Helldivers player
Tom Charman
Co-Founder/CEO at Blok
By day: 2x exited founder & investor in 25+ companies, now raised 7-8 figures building synthetic browsing agents
By night: Secret Hitler & Catan player
Farrah Barber
Co-Founder/CEO at Science Folk
By day: Ex-McKinsey/Goldman/UN IGF/EF building the new marketplace for STEM talents.
By night: VR/AR games, boardgames
Josef Chen
Co-founder at Kaikaku
By day: 2x exited founder, now building robotic restaurants with the Ex-CDO of Subway, Ex-CSO of Mars Inc, & Ex-MD of Caffè Nero.
By night: Foody, gamer
Ross Murphy
Co-Founder/CEO at OneContext
By day: Ex-Oxford/J.P Morgan trader building the Vercel of RAG pipelines
By night: Poker player, nature enthusiast
Andrea Guariglia
Co-founder at Angry Monk
By day: Ex-Oxford who founded a profitable UK business (now board-member). Now McKinsey consultant planning his next venture.
By night: Running, poker player
Brett Cotten
Co-founder/CEO at Arda Biomaterials
By day: Ex-Cambridge grad, EF alumnus, book author who raised ~$2M to tranform beer waste into leather.
By night: Foody, running
Sophia Rahman
Co-founder/CEO at Stealth
By day: Ex-Cambridge grad who recently raised 7 digits in stealth 🤫.
By night: Boardgames, foody, running
Miraan Tabrez
Co-founder at Hypertune
By day: Ex-Improbable & Meta SWE now building the future of feature flag, A/B testing, and app analytics.
By night: Poker player
Mert Deveci
Co-founder at GodmodeHQ.com
By day: Ex-Morgan Stanley banker who raised $3M to build the sales AI for modern teams
By night: Poker player
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We work harder togetherduring the day...
- All members are experts in one niche: some have even been through the pains of scaling it to up to 9 figures ARR & managing their exit - they'll happily help!
- 24/7 access to an electric Global Private Slack with hungry exceptional founders with unbounded ambition - if you want a kick to push yourself, you'll get it!
... and play harder togetherduring the night.
- The dominating majority of us are suckers for poker, chess, & Catan, among others. We play both online & IRL, wherever Foundeners are!
- Restaurants, comedy, pubs - anything any of us fancy trying in the city, we give it a go!
- Last Summer, we've rented a huge chalet in the French Alpes for 1 week. On the menu: freshly cooked food, hikes in the mountains, alone time in the morning, meditation, & boardgames!
Hang out with us!
Less than 9% of all applicants make the cut, but you might!
Exceptional friend
'Future Big Dogs'
- Evidence of exceptional abilities
- Burning passion for techno-innovation
- Strong Bias for action
Elite (invitation-only)
'Big Dogs'
- 'Exceptional friend' criteria AND
- Founder - $25M+ raise, $5M+ exit or $2M+ ARR
- Investor - GP, T1-fund investor, or big following
- Operator - Scaled company into unicorn