So founders can thrive.
We create the space to drop the mask, to gain clarity, maintain energy, and navigate the true highs and lows of your founder journey.
Because building your company doesn’t have to mean carrying it alone.
Three ways to build founder resilience.
Work on founder resilience with us and other co-founders.
Don't carry it alone.
Speaking up is step #1 to building resilience.
Join a Founder Circle with like-minded peers: 8–12 founders in a similar phase. Fuelling real conversation with research-backed themes, real founder challenges, and cases. For founders, by founders.
Looking for a group that fits your phase? Register your interest, including in circles that are still to start. You don’t need to choose a specific circle.
Upstream Founders Circle · Early Stage
Pre-seed & seed founders, first 1–3 hires
Upstream Founders Circle · Late Stage
Series A+ operators, 20+ FTE
Impact Founder Circles
Purpose-driven founders, grouped by stage
See how you are really doing.
The Resilience Scan is a self check-in for founders navigating the highs and lows of their founder journey. Based on insights from 300+ founders and experts, it takes you through the 8 areas that drive your personal resilience. 15 to 20 minutes.
Turning Insights into Lasting Impact
To move from insights to real, lasting change, we guide founders through 1-on-1 coaching and dedicated team development. Led by coaches who’ve built scaled businesses themselves, we help you translate self-awareness into concrete execution and make it stick.
Common topics include:
- Personal efficiency: keeping the right focus
- Your own role & letting go of operations
- Empowering your team
- Co-founder dynamics
- Maintaining the right growth mindset & drive
- Navigating tough decisions
One day a year, only for founders.
At the Resilient Founder Day we bring the wider founder network together: honest conversations, small-group sessions, founder-only exchange, a shared dinner. The next edition is scheduled for March 2027.
What founders say
“An eye opener: Great to know that you are not alone.”
“Like-minded founders in other phases of their company, but all with the same challenges. those moments of recognition are rare and very valuable.”
Bring resilience to the founders in your community.
Our mission is a shared effort. We work with VCs, accelerators, incubators and events, with co-created circles, keynotes, and workshops. To bring founder resilience to your community.
From the research, the circles and the coaching room.
Launching the Impact Founder Circles
Together with Achmea Impact Ventures and 4impact capital, we launched the Impact Founder Circles. Open to impact founders across the country.
Launching the Upstream Founder Circles
From 50 applications we formed two Founder Circles with Upstream: one for early stage founders and one for advanced stage founders.
Theme 1. Your sense of purpose
The founders who keep going all share one thing. A clear why. Here is how to check in on yours.