Off the record. On your side.
The Collective is coaching and a peer community for the parts of building a company that never make it into the pitch deck. It is confidential, it is candid, and it is built by people who have sat in your chair.
“I told my investors we were crushing it. Then I sat in my car for forty minutes because I couldn’t make myself walk into my own office.”
Mateo R., 3 years as a founder
Why this exists.
The company gets all the care. You get the leftovers.
You are holding up the company, the team, the investors, and probably a few people at home. Everyone around you depends on you being fine, so you have gotten very good at being fine. You give the confident update, you absorb the hard news, and you carry the rest wherever founders carry things.
Meanwhile, everything in your world gets more attention than you do. The product has a roadmap. The finances have a model. The team has one on ones. The person at the center of all of it usually has nothing, because every room you sit in is a room where you are performing for someone.
That arrangement works until it doesn’t. The cost compounds quietly, in your sleep, your relationships, your judgment, and eventually your company. We built the Collective because founders deserve one room where none of that performance is required.
What you get.
Three ways in. One honest room.
Everyone asks how the company is doing. My coach is the only person who asks how I'm doing and actually waits for the answer.
Amara O., 5 years as a founder
How it works.
Three steps, and the first one is just a conversation.
01
Book a first conversation.
It is free, it is thirty minutes, and there is no pitch on either side.
02
We match you with a coach, a peer group, or both.
The match is based on what you actually need, not on what costs the most.
03
You join the Collective.
It grows with you through every stage of the company, and it is still there after this company too.
An initiative of the Global Venture Network.
We have been doing this work since 2017.
The Collective was built by the Global Venture Network, or GVN, the network behind more than 350 accelerators, venture studios, and innovation hubs across six continents. We have spent more than fifteen years supporting the organizations that support founders, and along the way one thing kept surfacing. The founders themselves had nowhere to take the weight.
This work started in 2017 with the GVN Founder Wellness Pact, continued through the Founder Support Fund, and now has a permanent home in the Collective. It is the program we always wanted to hand the founders themselves.
Work with a GVN member accelerator or studio? Your membership in the Collective is discounted. Ask us when you book your first conversation and we will check for you.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, free, completely confidential. Come as you are.