How it works
Tell us exactly who moves your company forward. We go find them inside the Propel network and make the introduction. No working the room, no scrolling a directory.
Your three matches land in a shared tracker each month, with names and why each one fits. Nothing vague, nothing you have to take on faith.
Some months your three come fast, some months we work for them. Either way, if we do not deliver three real ICP matches, you do not pay for that month. The risk is ours.
The math
A qualified meeting booked through cold outbound runs about $150 to land. An in-house SDR to do it costs $800 to $1,200 a month, before they book a single one. Three hand-matched, warm introductions to people who actually fit is worth more than $200. Here is where that number comes from.
A qualified meeting booked through cold outbound runs about $150 to land. An in-house SDR to do it costs $800 to $1,200 a month, before they book a single one.
Three hand-matched, warm introductions to people who actually fit is worth more than $200. Here is where that number comes from.
Why it's worth $200
A good network gets you the occasional lucky intro. This gets you three specific people every month, chosen for your company, whether or not luck shows up.
It works whether or not you do. No events to attend, no follow-ups to chase. The introductions come to you.
It reaches past the people you already know. Your own network stops at who you have already met. Ours opens the ones you haven't.
It gives you a number, not a vibe. Three matches a month, tracked, instead of "good energy in the room."
We make your case before you say a word. You get warm-introduced by the network, not cold-pitching yourself in a DM.
This is new, and we would rather do it right for a few than badly for everyone. The first 25 members get our full attention while we prove the model.
Your $200 is locked for life. When the price goes up for everyone else, founding members stay at $200.
Refundable if we miss. Don't get your three matches in a month, and that month is refunded. No argument.
A match is a real introduction to a real person who fits the target you gave us, made and logged that month. Not a name on a list, not "someone you should meet."
Questions founders ask
A real introduction to a real person who fits the target you gave us, a buyer, a hire, or an investor, made and logged inside that month. A name in a directory does not count. The introduction does.
You don't pay for that month, we refund it. No form to fill out, no back-and-forth.
NYC founders and operators from the Propel community, the 300-plus who show up to our events and the 21,000 on the Launchpad list. Real people you could run into at the next event, not scraped LinkedIn contacts.
A community gives you a room and hopes you work it. An accelerator takes equity and runs a program. We do neither. We owe you three specific introductions a month, in writing, or you don't pay. That is the whole thing.
Because hand-matching is real work, and we won't promise it at a scale we can't deliver. Twenty-five is what we can do well right now. When we can do more, the price will not be $200.
Founding 25
It's an application because the matching only works if we know who you are and who you need. Takes two minutes.
Come to an event first. The Events Pass is $20 and gets you into the room the Founding 25 is built from.
Get an events passLooking for something more intensive? The August Founder Cohort (by application) and the invite-only Inner Circle are separate tracks. Ask us.