Journey
Our Story

Built from the
room up

Founders Feed didn't start with venture capital or a product roadmap. It started with a newsletter, 60 people, and a belief that the right room changes everything.

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April 1, 2025

The first newsletter

Founders Feed sent its first monthly roundup to 60 people — every single one an in-person connection. No email list, no paid acquisition. Just people worth knowing.

60 Founders
May 2025

NYU Stern — The first event

In collaboration with the International Business Association for Women, we brought mindset coach Caitlin O'Toole — who now shares stages with Joe Dispenza — to speak to 50 students. Everyone stayed for over an hour after it ended. No one wanted to leave.

NYU Stern — Jason and Caitlin O'Toole
NYU Stern — Caitlin with students
Summer 2025

Growing quietly

For five months, the newsletter grew entirely through real-world connection. Month two: 150 subscribers. No links, no social campaigns. Just the compounding effect of people telling other people.

150 → 500+ Subscribers
September 29, 2025

Wellness to Wisdom

Our first official community event. 45 healthcare and healthtech founders. Breathwork. A mastermind session. Fruit-based teas by Musa. Withum joined as our founding Ambassador Sponsor. Shanti House as our community partner. The model worked in the field for the first time.

Wellness to Wisdom — the room
Wellness to Wisdom — networking
Wellness to Wisdom — audience
Wellness to Wisdom — Jason presenting
Withum Founding Sponsor

The community tripled in size following this event.

Early 2026

The intelligence layer

What started as a newsletter became an event platform — and then something no one had built before. We started enriching every founder profile with AI, validating what they said against public data, and building a credibility scoring model that predicts success from behavioral signals, not pitch decks.

550+ Founders Enriched
March 2026

Snapshot launches

Every founder in the community gets a digital identity — a live profile enriched by Cortana, validated against public data, and scored by the people they've actually met. The community becomes the data. The data becomes the product.

1,000+ Newsletter Subscribers

With our infrastructure now fully built, we tripled in size again entering 2026 — and we're just getting started.

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What We've Built

From newsletter to
intelligence platform

We went from a monthly roundup to a full-stack founder intelligence system. Here's what that actually means.

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Curated Events
Monthly and bimonthly gatherings across healthcare, fintech, tech, and general founder verticals. Every room is built with intent — not just filled.
Community
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Cortana Intelligence
Our AI enriches every founder profile against public data — validating what they self-report and surfacing signals that tell the fuller story of who someone is and what they're building.
AI / Data
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Snapshot Profiles
Every community member gets a live digital identity: QR code, verified profile, Cortana confidence score, and a record of the connections they've made at events.
Product
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Credibility Scoring
Behavioral signals collected over 12-24 months — attendance, follow-through, peer reflections, network quality — feed a predictive model that identifies breakout founders before the market does.
Moat
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Investor Intelligence
VCs and family offices access our database to discover high-signal founders based on execution behavior, not pitch credentials. The information asymmetry in early-stage investing — fixed.
Revenue
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The Feed
A monthly newsletter curating the most relevant founder events in NYC — verified, categorized, and matched to your vertical. 1,000+ subscribers. Growing entirely through community.
Newsletter

This is only
the beginning

We started with 60 people and a belief in the power of authentic connection. We're building the infrastructure to scale that belief to every founder in the world.

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