Meet a cofounder, build a startup, pitch for €100K, get paid
"Founders" a Dogpatch Labs initiative. Earn a €2,000 monthly stipend to ideate, co-found a startup, and pitch for €100K investment. An exclusive opportunity for exceptional individuals to shape the future of startups. Applications are open till June 18th.
Impressive AI-powered chatbot, it feels like I'm talking to a real person!
This is basically what I wish existed when wanted to do a startup but I didn't have an idea or cofounder yet. Going off the engineers, builders and biz devs that have applied already this is going to be an amazing cohort of 45 people, wrapped in the Dogpatch community, wrapped in the ecosystem with 50 of our ecosystems top entrepreneurs as mentors. Best case scenario you meet a dream co-founder, get €100k investment within 12 weeks and straight onto a pre-seed round. Worst case scenario your net
"Hi there, I'm Jack O'Regan Kenny, excited to be part of the Dogpatch Labs team bringing you Founders. Our mission is to empower extraordinary individuals to co-create and launch startups. With our unique program, we're investing in people, not just ideas. We provide a €2,000 monthly stipend to participants and an opportunity to pitch for a €100,000 investment. Can't wait to see the innovative startups that emerge from this journey! Feel free to ask any questions - I'm here to help!
I would totally do this. Love the idea of working with a bunch of smart people - rapidly building stuff and seeing where it goes. A 3 month hackathon with a €100k carrot.
Visited Dogpatch in December last year and attended the last 'First Fridays for Startups' of the year. Really inspiring room of people. This Founder's programme looks amazing.
A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.
Categories come from the product's launch tags. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. The primary category is listed first.
The scores reflect launch-period engagement. Historical data is preserved and doesn't change retroactively. The build date at the bottom shows when the index was last refreshed.