About
Cofounder for Startup started in 2024, after our founders spent a year raising a seed round the usual way: 214 cold emails, 31 calls, 4 term sheets — and the eventual lead investor turned out to have been looking for exactly their profile the whole time. The problem wasn’t supply or demand. It was discovery.
So we built the missing piece: a matching layer where founders, investors, and future cofounders state what they’re looking for in structured terms — stage, sector, check size, skills — and only meet when the interest is mutual.
Founded in Lisbon after a 214-email seed round that should have taken one match.
Public launch. 4,000 profiles in the first quarter, first cofounder teams formed.
15,500 members and $480M in matched allocations across 14 countries.
PRINCIPLE 01
No unsolicited pitches, no spam inboxes. A conversation exists only because both sides asked for it.
PRINCIPLE 02
Standardized traction fields on every card. Storytelling belongs in the call, not in the filter.
PRINCIPLE 03
We charge a flat subscription, never a percentage. Your round is your round.
Team
Raised the seed round that started this. Previously product at a fintech infrastructure company.
Owns the deck, the cards, and Pitch Studio. Believes a filter is a design decision.
Runs verification and enforcement. Reads every report herself.
Matching, ranking, and the parts of privacy that have to hold server-side.