Let's change
the world
together.

Founders Catalyst brings ideas, capital, and talent together — partnering with exceptional co-founders to turn the best ideas into enduring companies. We don't just write checks. We build.

A portfolio built from zero
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A different kind of co-founder

We de-risk the hardest part — going from 0 to 1.

(01)

Build with operators

Work alongside serial founders and functional experts who have launched, scaled, and exited category-defining companies.

(02)

Stack the odds

Tap into capital, playbooks, and infrastructure on day one — the resources that turn a raw idea into a fundable company faster.

(03)

Focus on the product

We handle formation, hiring, finance, and legal so you can spend your first year building for customers — not building the back office.

Our conviction

We back the outliers. The obsessive. The early. The ones building what doesn't exist yet.

Idea-stageContrarianRelentlessBuilt from zero
The studio model

We generate ideas in-house, pressure-test them against real markets, then pair the survivors with world-class founders and fund them to build. One team. Many companies. Compounding conviction.

01 — Ideate

Hundreds of theses a year. We kill the weak ones early and back the rare ideas with real venture scale.

02 — Co-found

We recruit an exceptional founder, invest seed capital, and build the founding team beside them.

03 — Compound

Each company sharpens the machine — shared talent, capital, and lessons that de-risk the next one.

Where we build

Focus areas.

01Applied AIAgents, tooling, and vertical software rebuilt around frontier models.
02Fintech & InfraThe rails, risk, and money movement underneath the modern economy.
03Health & BioConsumer health, care delivery, and the science of living longer.
04Industrial & EnergyHard tech, climate, and the physical systems that power growth.
05ConsumerBrands and products that earn a place in everyday life.
Selected companies

Built with us, from zero.

All companies
EU PresenceRegulatory Infrastructure

The complete platform for entering and operating across all 27 EU member states — compliance, representation, and operations in one place.

27
EU member states, one platform
RoutelineAI Infrastructure

An AI governance gateway — every LLM call routes through Routeline for observability, control, and compliance across providers.

1 gateway
Across every LLM provider
OnemorConsumer Fitness

A free fitness app with workouts programmed by world-class trainers, athletes, and nutritionists — for any goal.

Free
Workouts for every goal
ScreenMagicCreative Software

A Mac app that turns raw screen recordings into polished, cinematic videos — automatic zoom, cursor smoothing, and one-click 4K export.

4K
One-click cinematic export
Design BrewDesign Subscription

A subscription design studio delivering unlimited app, web, and brand design for a flat monthly fee — pause or cancel anytime.

48 hrs
Average delivery
NekodDevTools · AI QA

A production-readiness layer for AI-built apps — continuous checks across security, compliance, and reliability, with plain-language fixes.

213
Production-readiness controls
A founding team on day one

Everything a company needs, already here.

Our founders inherit a full operating bench from the first week — the functions that normally take years and a Series A to assemble.

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Companies co-founded since inception
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Follow-on capital raised by our founders
0
Companies past $100M valuation
0
Exits to public-market and strategic acquirers
“Founders Catalyst gave me a year of runway and a founding team the day I said yes. I got to spend it building the product, not the company.”
Jordan Avery
Co-founder & CEO, EU Presence

Come build with us.

Have an idea worth a decade of your life? Or want to be matched with one of ours? We back founders at the very beginning — before the idea is obvious.