Founders & Funders Workshop

On Friday morning Boris Mann @bmann.ca is hosting a founders & funders workshop, along with a number of other investors & advisors.

This is a peer event, to connect people building on the atmosphere, building public interest networks, businesses, and other atproto services. We'll share our plans, shared challenges, and get feedback and advice.

Investors & Advisors

We've asked a number of investors and advisors to join us to give feedback and share expertise, including:

• Ricardo @ricardo.bsky.social , Angel & Advisor
• Dietrich @burrito.space , Angel & Advisor
• Chad @chadfowler.com , Investor, @blueyard.com
• Tessa @tessa.germnetwork.com , Advisor
• Peter @wang.social , Investor, @skyseed.fund
• Moshe @mosh.bsky.social, Angel & Advisor
• Sophia Zao @nierfiti.bsky.social , Investor, @alumniventures.bsky.social
• Catherine Tait @cjtait.bsky.social, Expert in Residence @newpublic.org
• Deepti Doshi @deeptidoshi.bsky.social , Co-Director, @newpublic.org
• Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social , Internet Urban Planner, @newpublic.org
• Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social , Executive Director, @modalfoundation.eurosky.social

Thanks to all of you for volunteering to support founders!

If you're an investor or advisor interested in joining us, please contact us.

Agenda

• 9:00am start time, brief overview of our time, intros of each team
• 9:30am Peer Breakouts 1
• 10:30am Peer Breakouts 2
• 11:30am Wrap up and walk over to lunch
• 1:15pm Finish lunch and back to venue for 1:30pm sessions

We'll do some pre-sorting of peer groups based on your applications, and adjust based on your in-person intros & open questions in the room. We'll split out into groups with advisors split across groups. Teams will learn from each other's needs and advisor feedback, and come back as a group to share learnings. Then we'll have a lunch to get to know each other.

Sponsored by Protocol Labs

Thanks to @protocollabs.bsky.social for supporting this event as our lunch sponsor.

Apply to Attend

We mean this to be a broad group of builders — from startups to plans for state, grant, academic, or alternate support models — but we do want to see an application that is more than a single app business.

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Applications close Monday, March 23rd, or when we have reached capacity of accepted teams.