Meet founders
Founders, talking to other founders.
Not a pitch. Not a raise. Somewhere to find the person who already hit the wall you're standing in front of, hear thirty seconds of them in their own voice, and decide for yourself whether to say hello.
What actually happens
Two people have to agree before anything starts.
There is no inbox anyone can reach you in, and no request you have to answer. You see each other first, and either of you can end it there.
Your profile is thirty seconds
You record it once — what you're building and what you need right now. That is the profile. No résumé, no headline, no connection count.
You watch other founders
Profiles come one at a time. You can narrow the feed to founders only, and narrow it again by sector, then watch before you do anything else.
Nothing sends until they agree
Sending a Spark asks. They watch your thirty seconds and either Spark back or decline. No reply means no introduction — and no way to message you.
Three minutes, live
Once you've both said yes, you get a three-minute video conversation. It runs longer only if you both tap to keep going.
The consent rule
Asked twice, not once.
The second gate sits after the conversation, not before it.
Both have to Spark
A one-sided Spark produces nothing. The pairing only exists once the other founder Sparks back.
Both have to say yes again
When the three minutes end you each answer privately. Chat opens only if you both said yes.
A clean no
Declining is a normal answer with a reason attached, and it stops that person Sparking you again for a while.
Not just a screen
The rule lives in the database, not the interface. Without the mutual pairing there is no message to send.
The reason people are here
Payments are failing in a market you've never sold into before.
You've read everything there is to read. What you want is twenty minutes with someone who shipped through it eighteen months ago.
That is the whole shape of it. A hire falls through a week before they were due to start. A technical decision you made in month three turns out to be the reason nothing scales in month twenty. A country's card rails behave nothing like the documentation said they would.
None of that is a question for an investor, and none of it is a question you can post publicly with your company's name attached. It is a question for another founder — ideally one who is a year or two ahead of you, in roughly your sector, and has no stake in how you answer it.
So when you record your thirty seconds, say the actual thing. Not the polished version. The founders worth meeting are the ones who recognise the problem when they hear it, and those are the ones who Spark back.
Face2Face dinners
The offline half.
Some conversations belong at a table. A small one — founders, and not only founders — with no panel, no pitching and no name tags.
You've already seen each other
Everyone at the table has a video profile, so nobody spends the first half hour on "so what do you do".
It carries on afterwards
Scan to Connect at the table and the person stays in the app instead of on the back of a receipt.
Who is here
Everyone here introduced themselves on camera.
No headshot and a headline. Thirty seconds of a person saying who they are and what they need right now.
Off the screen
Some of it happens at a table.
Face2Face dinners put a small group in one room — founders, investors, talent, mentors. Everyone has already seen each other speak, so nobody starts from nothing.
Thirty seconds is the whole onboarding.
Get the app, record what you're building and what you need, and start watching. There is nothing else to fill in.