Phoenix's Most Exclusive Entrepreneur Community for 7, 8, and 9-Figure Founders

As the business grows, decisions get more complex, and fewer people truly understand them. Your team looks to you for direction. Your partners have their own priorities. Friends and family can support you, but they're not always who you call when weighing an acquisition, reshaping your leadership team, or deciding where the company goes next.

Our Entrepreneur Community Phoenix brings accomplished founders, operators, executives, and investors together in a highly selective environment focused on growth, trust, and meaningful peer relationships.

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Why Members Join

The right room cuts through the noise.

Building at the highest level means making decisions with limited time and imperfect information. The Founders Club chapter in your city gives you the room that matches the pace and the stakes of what you are building.

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Get direct, unfiltered feedback on the decisions that define your next chapter: hiring, exits, fundraising, pivots.
02
Access capital, partnerships, and talent across the most active and high-opportunity industries in your market.
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Build a peer group that does not just celebrate wins. It helps you navigate the hard ones.
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Stay connected year-round through a high-signal private Slack and exclusive members-only events across the city.
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Join a founders mastermind that holds the bar where you need it, with peers building businesses of comparable scale and seriousness.
What Membership Includes

Access to the Right People

Founders Club is built around access to the right people, not simply more people. Every member gets the Phoenix chapter plus the wider nationwide Founders Club network local relationships and connections beyond Arizona.

Introductions are intentional. We look at what you're building, what you're facing, and which members can offer real perspective, support, or opportunity.

You may meet a founder who's scaled past the stage you're entering, an executive who's built the team you're trying to create, or an investor who sees your hardest decision from a different angle. It's the kind of perspective that's hard to find inside your own company.

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Monthly Mastermind Groups

Monthly Mastermind Groups

Join an intimate group of 8 to 12 like-minded, high-growth founders for a strategically designed and professionally facilitated session focused on brainstorming and solving your most pressing business challenges. Available both in-person and online.
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Local NYC Activations

Local Chapter Activations

As The Founders Club expands coast to coast across the United States, new chapters are emerging in every major market, giving founders more opportunities to meet locally, build deeper relationships, and grow together.
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150+ National Events

150+ Member Only Events Access

From in-person masterminds and celebrity guest speakers to box seats at sporting events, X-Games trips, and our once-in-a-lifetime Billion Dollar Dinners, members enjoy a curated lineup of exclusive events throughout the year.
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Annual Retreat

Annual Retreat

Each year, members from across the country gather for The Founders Club Annual Retreat, an immersive experience in one of Mexico’s most breathtaking destinations. Blending strategy, connection, and renewal, it gives founders the space to realign and return home ready to lead at a higher level.
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Members Only Slack

Members Only Slack

Tap into a private Slack community of vetted founders across industries and stages. Get real-time feedback, referrals, hiring help, vendor recommendations, and honest insight from operators who are in the trenches with you every day.
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$100K+ in Travel Perks

Travel Discounts

$100K+ in Perks
Members receive preferred rates on luxury hotels, premium airlines, and curated travel experiences around the world. Whether you’re booking a personal getaway or extending a business trip, our partnerships unlock meaningful savings and elevated perks that compound over time.
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Founders Club App

Founders Club App

The Founders Club App keeps the entire ecosystem in your pocket. RSVP to events, access resources, and stay plugged into what’s happening across chapters, all from your phone. Your network, organized and accessible wherever you are.
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Curated 1:1 Connections

Curated Connections

We don’t leave networking to chance. Through intentional introductions and thoughtful matchmaking, members are connected to the right people at the right time—whether that’s a strategic partner, investor, operator, or lifelong friend. The goal isn’t more contacts. It’s the right ones.
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Men's & Women's Growth Workshops

Men's & Women's Growth Workshop

Purposefully small gatherings that create protected space for vulnerability, personal development, and growth in mind and body.
Who Belongs in PHOENIX

Who Founders Club Is For

Founders Club is selective by design, built for founders, operators, senior executives, and investors who've already achieved meaningful success, many running 7, 8, or 9-figure companies, others bringing equivalent experience.
Revenue is only part of the standard. Character matters too. The strongest members are generous with what they know, respect confidentiality, and welcome honest conversations, even ones that challenge their own thinking.
If you're looking for a CEO peer group in Phoenix that understands the weight of leading at scale, this may be the right fit. If you're still building toward that level, it may not be, and if you're mainly here to pitch or prospect, this isn't the right community for you.

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Member Overview

A snapshot of what's being built inside the Founders Club network.

$20B
Combined Revenue
$14M
Average Revenue
1,700+
Vetted Members
35+
Cities

The founders already inside.

A look at the operators building inside the Phoenix chapter right now.

Jake Karls
Midday Squares

Jake has taken the stage at our Annual Retreat and calls The Club “the only place where founders can speak without filters.”

His roundtable in Miami inspired dozens of members to take bold creative risks that transformed their brands.

Megan Klein
Little Saints

“Secured a $2.3M partnership from a dinner introduction.”

Through a single TFC dinner, Megan connected with a strategic investor who helped scale her beverage brand into national retail chains within six months.

Victoria Simmons
sockfancy

“The feedback loop here is insane. Every conversation turns into growth.”

Through the Club’s private Mastermind events, Victoria has found “her people.” She feels seen, heard, and understood. Connections made in the Club helped her refine operations and secure distribution partnerships across new markets.

Dom built relationships that led to the eight-figure sale of Mela, sparked by an introduction from a member inside the Club. Today, he continues to expand his network through the same high-caliber rooms that helped him win.
          
Dom Purpura
Dom Purpura
Founder, Mela
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Phoenix is growing quickly, and that creates both opportunity and pressure for business leaders. Founders Club gives accomplished entrepreneurs a place to connect with people who understand what it means to make important decisions in a changing market.          

Phoenix combines business growth with major investment in semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, bioscience, healthcare, technology, aerospace, logistics, and business services.
A Phoenix-focused founder community puts you around leaders who understand the local market while still bringing perspectives from different industries. You get the relevance of a local network without limiting the conversation to one sector.
There is no single industry requirement. Members may come from technology, software, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, bioscience, aerospace, financial and professional services, logistics, real estate, consumer businesses, e-commerce, and other industries.
Every member is vetted. What matters most is the level of achievement, the experience someone brings, and whether that person will add value to the room.
Founders Club organizes in-person sessions across the Phoenix area.
Virtual sessions are also available for entrepreneurs with demanding travel schedules or other commitments that make attending in person difficult.
Sessions are professionally facilitated around real decisions, challenges, and opportunities rather than surface-level networking.
Introductions are custom curated.
We consider what you are currently building, what challenges you are facing, and which members have relevant experience.
That could mean connecting you with someone who has expanded into a new market, completed an acquisition, raised capital, scaled a leadership team, or solved an operating problem similar to yours.
The goal is to make connections that have a clear reason behind them.
Founders Club is designed for busy entrepreneurs.
You do not need to attend everything. We believe in focused participation and encourage members to take part in the sessions, conversations, events, and introductions that are most relevant to them.
The goal is not to fill your calendar. It is to make the time you spend with peers more valuable.
Yes.
Trust is central to Founders Club. Members are expected to respect the privacy of every conversation and the information shared by others.
That creates a safe environment for discussing leadership changes, financial decisions, partnerships, acquisitions, internal challenges, and other sensitive business issues.
Yes.
Membership includes access to the Phoenix chapter and the wider national Founders Club network.
That gives members the chance to build meaningful local relationships while also connecting with accomplished founders, executives, operators, and investors in other markets.
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Apply To the Phoenix Chapter

The quality of a founder community depends on the quality of the people in the room. That is why spots inside Founders Club Phoenix are limited by design and every application is reviewed carefully.

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