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Join a curated community of exceptional founders centred around friendships & games - we work harder during the day, we play harder during the night.

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Eduard Oravkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 together
during the day...

  • All members are experts in one niche: some have even been through the pains of scaling it to 8 figures ARR & managing their exit - they'll happily help!
  • We've all signed the Founden pact - a promise to empower each other to get them closer to success. A win for one of us = a new resource for everybody else.
  • 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 together
during the night.

  • Restaurants, VR games, comedy, pubs - anything any of us fancy trying in the city, we give it a go!
  • The dominating majority of us are suckers for boardgames & poker. We play both online & IRL, wherever Foundeners are!
  • Want to relax your mind & play a video game (e.g League of Legends) with likeminded fellows? We got you 24/7. Jump in our online gaming room (aka Discord server) and you'll find us recharging.
  • 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!

Become one of us!

Less than 9% of all applicants make the cut, but you might!

Pioneer

'Aspiring founders looking for unfair advantages'

  • Evidence of exceptional abilities
  • Burning passion for tech entrepreneurship
  • Bias for action
  • Has launched at least 1 product
  • Kind & social

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'Seasoned founders looking to scale their Empire'

  • All requirements from 'Founden Pioneer'
  • Raised at least 1M+ OR 6-digit exit OR reached 1M ARR