Founders Pledge

Our mission is to invest in and support founders and their early-stage start-ups that are challenging the status quo. Stand Together Ventures Lab supports each start-up and its unique needs to build on successes and create lasting change. WE INVEST We fund early-stage ventures from pre-seed through Series A and give them the right financial resources to help founders build a solid foundation for success. WE ARE COMMITTED Change takes time. We are patient and committed to teams that are working to remove barriers that keep society from moving forward, understanding that results don’t happen overnight. WE PROVIDE ACCESS Through our community of philanthropic organizations and network of partners, we provide early-stage start-ups with access to social industry experts to refine and amplify game changing ideas. WE ARE ENTREPRENURIAL By leveraging our network of business leaders, we can tailor our support to meet the needs of your operational and team structure.

Fondé par des entrepreneurs pour des entrepreneurs, Founders Future investit capital financier et capital humain dans les startups de la tech et du digital. Entreprise à mission, nous contribuons à développer un entrepreneuriat ambitieux et responsable pour anticiper les futurs enjeux de notre société. Dans l’exercice de notre métier, nous sommes déterminés à générer un impact positif en termes social, sociétal et environnemental. Notre volonté ? Capter les grandes évolutions de notre société, repérer les entrepreneurs qui savent les anticiper, et les guider pour transformer leur vision en réalité. En un mot, nous construisons ensemble les modèles d’entreprise du futur et aidons à en structurer les fondations. Pour y parvenir, quatre valeurs nous orientent : engagement, conviction, exigence, audace. Co-construire les entreprises du futur prend du temps. Respectueux de l’initiative entrepreneuriale, nous envisageons donc nos relations avec les fondateurs dans la durée. Nous les préparons, les orientons, les conseillons, dans les périodes difficiles comme dans les moments plus sereins. Nous faisons équipe avec eux. Et c’est là notre plus grande fierté ! NOS VALEURS ENGAGEMENT. Respectueuse de l’initiative entrepreneuriale, notre équipe accompagne le fondateur à chaque étape du développement de son entreprise. Nous nous impliquons dans la durée et agissons en partenaires, dans les moments difficiles comme dans les instants plus sereins. CONVICTION ET EXIGENCE. Parce que nous choisissons des entrepreneurs experts dans leur domaine, visant l’excellence dans la mise en œuvre et restant humbles à chaque étape du développement, nous avons à cœur de les emmener au sommet. Des entrepreneurs, ambitieux et responsables, qui partagent notre exigence et nos convictions. C’est là une des conditions d’un partenariat efficace et durable. AUDACE. Nous savons repérer les entrepreneurs qui répondront aux enjeux d’un monde qui change toujours plus vite. Nous osons investir temps et capital dans les entreprises qui captent les tendances sociétales et proposent des solutions innovantes.

Founders Forum Group is a global community and group of businesses supporting entrepreneurs at every stage of their journeys. Our invite-only forums unite founders, investors, corporate and government leaders to tackle era-defining questions in iconic locations across the globe. Our annual forums take place in London, New York, Berlin & Singapore and we're proud co-hosts of #LondonTechWeek. Fuelled by the connections and ideas forged at FF events, Founders Forum Group businesses support the needs of today’s founders via networking (Grip), education (01 Founders and Framework), professional services (Founders Keepers and Founders Law), investment (Founders Factory and firstminute capital) and philanthropy (The Centre for Entrepreneurs and Founders Pledge).

We are a global network made up of 100+ Impact Hubs worldwide, with 25,000+ people driving change - in 60+ countries across 5 continents. At Impact Hub, we are enabling inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale by connecting entrepreneurs and innovators to large organizations, cultural and public institutions. Our world is facing complex challenges. Challenges that will only be tackled through collaboration. At Impact Hub, we make collaboration happen by designing impactful solutions, building business for good and (re)imagining the future. This is what our community of impact-driven entrepreneurs, creators, innovators and intrapreneurs does; taking action - today - to create a better tomorrow for people and planet. We’ve been a catalyst for entrepreneurial action for 15+ years. All big ideas start small. In our case, it was in 2005, with one community, in one city. It was a space for anyone who had an idea for a better world to meet and collaborate - a place where ideas turned into impact. Today, from Kigali to São Paulo and from Taipei to Berlin, we provide access to spaces, resources, connections, knowledge, talent and investments to turn ideas into action. We believe that the time to act is now. And the way to act is together!

Notley is an Austin-based band of relentless changemakers combating issues across multiple cause areas. Since 2015, Notley has provided the creative space and resources necessary to make the most impact in our communities. Through the use of magnetic risk capital, we work to bridge the gap of collaboration between for-profits and nonprofits to solve problems quicker. Our team of relentless changemakers’ work is inspired by our Core Values: Agility, Fearlessness, Integrative, Creativity, and Respect. Notley challenges the status quo with new models in communities across the nation, including Austin, Columbus, Denver, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. Together, we instigate outsized impacts. Part of Notley’s changemakers’ work includes for-profit investments that Notley makes directly through Notley Ventures along with Notley’s affiliation with Springdale Ventures. Springdale Ventures, founded in 2019, invests in and supports early-stage consumer product companies and manages relationships with hundreds of investors and industry partners. Its mission is to partner with passionate, resolute, founders to accelerate the growth of transformative consumer brands.

As an impact-driven organization serving remarkable entrepreneurs & ecosystems, we leverage corporate partnerships, specialized programming, meaningful mentorship, and capital investments to drive growth within the minority innovation economy. Lightship provides remarkable founders the resources and direction their businesses need to scale.