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Founders Club

A Private Entrepreneur
Community in San Francisco for 7, 8, and 9-Figure Founders

San Francisco moves on relationships. Make sure yours are the right ones. The San Francisco chapter of Founders Club is built for operators running serious, scaling businesses, from SoMa to the Financial District, Pacific Heights to the Mission.

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Why Members Join

The city has everything. The right room has what matters

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.
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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

Local depth. National reach.

Your San Francisco membership gives you the full Founders Club experience — deep roots in the local chapter and access to a national network of 800 plus vetted founders that extends far beyond the Bay Area.

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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 Bay AreaActivations

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 Workshop

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 San francisco

For the founders already building something real.

Members are typically founders and operators running 7 to 9 figure businesses across San Francisco's most active industries, alongside select investors and executives stepping into entrepreneurship.

In a city where everyone has a deck and a vision, the ones who actually build something enduring are the ones in the right rooms having the right conversations. We want founders who show up generously, share what they know, and bring as much as they take.

If you are still building your proof of concept, this is not the room yet. If you are running a real business in San Francisco and want a private CEO peer group that actually holds the standard, this is your room.

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Member Overview

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

$1B
Combined Revenue
$28M
Average Revenue
800+
Vetted Members
15+
Cities

The founders already inside.

A look at the operators building inside the San Francisco chapter right now.

Anne Mahlum
SolidCore

Anne’s session on leadership and self-mastery at Founders Forum became one of the most talked-about events of the year.

Her story of resilience continues to shape the Club’s culture of high performance with empathy.

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.

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

Building in San Francisco comes with its own dynamics. The city moves on relationships, the talent pool is still maturing, and the line between people doing real work and people performing it is sometimes hard to see.          

The Bay Area is the world's most concentrated ecosystem for innovation — but that density comes with an enormous amount of noise. A curated local chapter puts you in the same room as founders who are past the hype cycle and focused on building lasting, scaled businesses.
Technology, venture-backed startups, biotech, fintech, e-commerce, and deep tech — the industries that have defined the Bay Area for decades. Every member is vetted, so the caliber of the room stays consistent.
In person across San Francisco and the broader Bay Area, with virtual options for founders with demanding travel schedules. Sessions are professionally facilitated and built entirely around your real business challenges.
Nothing is left to chance. Every match is intentional — based on what you're working on right now and who can actually move it forward.
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Apply to San Francisco Chapter

Spots inside Founders Club San Francisco are limited by design. Every application is reviewed carefully because the quality of the room is the entire point. San Francisco has no shortage of founders. The question is whether you are in the right room with them. If you are already building something serious, apply today.

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