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Hawaiʻi Angels: 500 decks. Two seats at lunch.
In Honolulu, a free pitch can lead to a very serious conversation. Hawaiʻi Angels turns a monthly lunch into a bridge between early traction and investors willing to write their own checks.
UNSW Founders makes the first startup mistake cheaper
A university can teach you to build something. UNSW Founders adds the awkward questions, the prototype tools and the people who might help you turn it into a business.
KIT-Gründerschmiede and the art of getting out of the lab
A research result can be brilliant and still have no customers. In Karlsruhe, KIT-Gründerschmiede helps founders make the awkward, necessary journey between the two.
ZOLLHOF Built a Startup Machine - Then Added the Missing Money
Nuremberg's incubator spent years helping founders without taking their shares. Its next act is a €30 million public-private startup factory - and a fund designed to keep deep-tech talent close to home.
StartUp Health Wants to Put the Right People in the Room
A $499 annual membership is the latest expression of a 15-year bet: health startups need buyers, backers, and each other. StartUp Health is turning that belief into a business built around shared medical missions.
RED EAGLE and the work before the pitch
The Hyderabad mentorship consultancy puts product-market fit, revenue models and launch strategy on the same agenda as fundraising. Its proposition starts with the business an investor will be asked to believe in.
Volta’s next big idea: build less
The Halifax startup hub once expanded to 60,000 square feet. Now it is betting on smaller teams, practical AI coaching and a question founders cannot dodge: who will pay?
NextGEN Gives Greenville Founders Someone to Call
Free mentor teams, small-group workshops and carefully matched investor meetings are NextGEN’s answer to founder isolation. In Greenville, the work of building a startup community happens one useful introduction at a time.
Velocity built a home for startups. Then it kept adding rooms.
A Waterloo dorm experiment grew into an incubator with laboratories, founder coaching and a separate venture fund. Its real business is helping good ideas survive their next expensive problem.
Jabroni Capital Is a Fake VC Firm. The Business Behind It Is Real.
Jack Kuveke turned a satirical LinkedIn post about closing a pre-seed fund into a newsletter read by tens of thousands of founders and investors - and a coaching-and-sponsorship business built on making fun of them.
Rampd
Rampd is a New York sales consultancy that coaches early-stage technical founders through the awkward, high-stakes phase of selling their own product. Led by co-founder and CEO Darren Lucia, the firm runs hands-on sprints and an accelerator that help founders validate product-market fit, build a repeatable sales motion, and chart a path to their first $1M in ARR. Its frameworks have been pressure-tested across hundreds of Y Combinator-backed startups.
Scale Yourself
Scale Yourself is a coaching and content platform for venture-backed startup founders, built by Amy Buechler - a licensed psychotherapist who spent nearly five years as Y Combinator's first in-house founder coach. It combines one-on-one coaching, a vetted network of ex-founder coaches, and a free framework library called The User Manual for Founder Psychology to help founders scale their psychology, relationships, and leadership alongside their companies.