A home for your startup community. Chat, discussions, events and members.
Built for accelerators, founder networks, investor groups, ecosystem orgs and the people who run them. Every member comes with their company's page, so you always know who you're talking to.
Free to start, no subscription. Use your work email: we build your organization's page from your website.
Starting a startup community is easy. Keeping it engaged is hard.
Most startup communities, from founder networks and investor groups to ecosystem orgs, alumni circles and accelerator cohorts, get stitched together across four or five disconnected apps. A chat app for chat. A doc page for docs. A newsletter tool for announcements. A calendar for events. A spreadsheet for the member list.
Each tool works on its own. Together, they drift. Members miss updates because they live in the wrong inbox. Discussions die in chat because there is no place to pin them. The member list goes stale by week three.
We pull all of that into one community space: chat, discussions, events and members, built for the startup ecosystem. Running your community happens in one place instead of five.
How most startup communities run today. Each tool works on its own. Together, they drift.
Everything a community actually uses.
Not a stack of bolted-on plugins.
Replaces: a chat workspace, a community server, weekly email broadcasts and calendar coordination.
Members are real companies.
Not anonymous usernames.
Every member is tied to their own profile on StartupCorners: founders to their startup's page, investors to their firm, mentors to their mentor profile. Click a name and you see who they are, their company, their role and what they are working on.
You are not chatting with @amy_h. You are chatting with Amy from CloudMesh, and CloudMesh's page is one click away.
- Members linked to their startup, investor or mentor profile
- Public pages where they exist, at /s/ and /m/
- Browse member progress without leaving the platform
- Verified context instead of anonymous handles
A public page to recruit.
A private space to run it.
You pick the access model per community. Members-only stays members-only.
A landing page anyone can find. One link to recruit.
Share it on your program page, newsletter and socials so prospective members see what you are about, who runs it and how to join.
Members-only inside. You decide who gets in.
Open, application-based or invite-only. Chat, discussions and the member roster stay members-only either way, and removing a member revokes access immediately.
What your first week looks like.
Five steps from setup to a community that runs itself.
Start your community- 01About 10 min
Create your community.
Set it up the way you want: logo, cover, topics, rules and a welcome message. Choose open, application-based or invite-only from day one.
- 02About 5 min per intake
Onboard your members.
Invite members by email, in bulk from a CSV or one at a time. They click, set up their profile and land in the community ready to introduce themselves.
- 03About 5 min to schedule
Run your first event.
Schedule the first meetup as a community event. RSVPs are tracked, and members see when and where on the event page. No separate meeting link to forward.
- 04Ongoing
Open the discussion.
Threaded conversations by topic, where members ask each other for help. You don't moderate, you spotlight: the best threads get pinned and stay searchable.
- 05About 2 min a week
Pin the updates that matter.
Use pinned discussions for weekly check-ins, workshops and member spotlights, so they stay on top instead of drifting in chat. Set a Monday cadence and keep it.
Free to start.
AI features run on credits.
The community is free, with 50 AI credits each month. The AI assistant and AI community setup, where you describe your community and it drafts the name, topics, rules and welcome message, run on credits. No subscription. Top up only when you need more.
Free
$0/month
Run your community with no time limit and no subscription.
Includes:Real-time chat, discussions and eventsMember directory with admin and member rolesA public landing page for your communityOpen, application-based or invite-only accessBulk CSV invitationsSeveral communities from one dashboard50 AI credits every monthCredit packs
From $5
For when you use the AI more. Credits never expire.
Auto top-up is available on the $20 and $50 packs.
Start free, top up laterYour community, your data, your call. You decide who is inside.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Standard TLS plus database-level encryption.
You control who joins
Open, application-based or invite-only, per community. Chat, discussions and the member roster stay members-only either way.
Granular roles and access
Admins and members, each with the right permissions. Remove a member and they lose access immediately.
Everything else community managers ask.
Something missing? Email hello@startupcorners.com.
How do members join the community?
You choose the access model per community: open to anyone, application-based (you review and approve) or invite-only. The community has a shareable landing page so prospective members can find you, but chat, discussions and the member roster stay members-only. Removing a member revokes access immediately.
How is this different from a chat app?
Chat apps are built for people. We are built for entities. Every conversation is tied to a startup, an investor firm or a mentor profile, so you always know who is behind the message: their company, their role, their public page. On top of that, the community is shaped for the job: real-time chat, pinnable discussions for long-form Q&A, events with RSVPs and a member directory with roles, instead of one channel list that drifts into noise by week three.
Can I invite members in bulk?
Yes. Bulk CSV invitations ship today: upload a CSV from your community admin and we send invites to everyone on the list. If you hit a snag, email hello@startupcorners.com and we will onboard your members within 48 hours.
Can mentors join?
Yes. Invite them like any other member. If a mentor has a profile on StartupCorners, their member entry links to it, so you can see who they are in one click.
Can I run multiple communities at once?
Yes. Each community is independent, with its own members, channels and events. You manage all of them from one dashboard.
Why do you need my work email?
Your community is run by your organization, and we build your organization's page from its website. The domain in your email tells us which site that is, which is why personal addresses like Gmail do not work.
Ready to spin up your community?
Free to start. No subscription.
Set up your community in 10 minutes. Running a startup yourself? See the startup side