Run your startup community on StartupCorners — chat, discussions, events, members. Built for founder networks, investor groups, ecosystem orgs, accelerator cohorts, and the people who run them.
Most startup communities — founder networks, investor groups, ecosystem orgs, alumni circles, accelerator cohorts — get stitched together across four or five disconnected apps. Slack for chat. A Notion page for docs. Mailchimp for announcements. Google 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's 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, members — purpose-built for the startup ecosystem, so the work of running your community lives in one place instead of being stitched across multiple apps.
Five steps from setup to a community that runs itself.
Spin up a private community branded the way you want. Logo, colors, channels. Ten minutes from sign-up to ready-for-members. Invite-only from day one.
Invite members by email — bulk CSV or one at a time. Members click, set up their profile, and land in the community ready to introduce themselves.
Schedule the first meetup as a community event. RSVPs auto-tracked. Members who can't make it see when and why on the event page — no separate Zoom link to forward. Auto-attached recordings are on the roadmap.
Threaded conversations organized by topic. Members ask each other for help. You don't moderate — you spotlight. Best discussions get pinned. Discussion threads stay searchable for the lifetime of the community.
Use pinned discussions to surface weekly check-ins, workshops, and member spotlights. Pinned posts stay at the top of the feed instead of drifting in chat. Set a Monday-update cadence and stick to it. Per-recipient read receipts and a dedicated engagement-signals dashboard are on the roadmap.
The lead pillar is the community itself. The second is the people inside it.
Real-time chat. Discussions you can pin to keep the important threads up top. Events with RSVPs. Member directory with admin / member / mentor roles. The full surface a community actually uses, not bolted-on plugins.
Each community has a shareable landing page so prospective members can find you, but chat, discussions, and the member roster are members-only. You pick the access model — open, application-based, or invite-only — and removing a member revokes access immediately. Mentors are added as community members with mentor badges (dedicated mentor matching is on the roadmap).
Built honestly: pinned-discussion read receipts, an engagement-tier dashboard (active / lurking / at-risk), and auto-attached event recordings are all on the roadmap, not shipping today. Vote at /roadmap if those are your priority.
Every community member is tied to their own profile on StartupCorners — startup founders to their startup workspace, investors to their firm, mentors to their mentor profile. Click a name and you see who they are: their company, their role, what they're working on.
That changes the dynamic. You're not chatting with @lina_k — you're chatting with Lina from Compass, and you can browse her public progress in one click.
See the startup side →The community is free, with 50 AI credits each month. Optional AI features (summarizing discussions, drafting updates) run on credits. No subscription. Top up only when you need more.
Free to start. No subscription. Set up your community in 10 minutes.