Software that used to take a whole company now takes a small team. So we build genuinely useful things for Bristol's founders and give them away. No catch, no upsell, no agenda.
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Every talk, meetup, angel night and fundraiser in Bristol's founder scene, in one place — keeping your finger on the city's pulse. Filter by what you need. Subscribe and get the week ahead in a single, short email each Sunday.
A showcase of everything Bristol has to offer its builders — yours whether or not we ever meet you.
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Every pound a Bristol founder could win — grants, competitions and awards, open right now with real deadlines and a link straight to the funder. Saves four hours of searching.
Curated, with the honest status on each — open to browse, no sign-up.
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Where Bristol founders raise investment — the local angel networks, SEIS/EIS funds and accelerators a founder can actually go to, with a link straight to each one.
We point you their way — we don't gatekeep the intro.
1 ask on the board now
Concrete asks from Bristol founders and charities — an intro, a beta tester, a lawyer for an hour. The thing that quietly kills good ideas is having no one to ask, so we made a place to ask.
Every ask on the board is real — founders helping founders.
“Founders to test-drive the Sunday Pulse digest and tell us, bluntly, what's missing.”
Also offering: Your fingerprints on a tool given to the whole city.
An honest list — each one a real starting point we'll keep growing as the community feeds it. They go live the moment they're useful, not before.
Desks, studios and meeting rooms around Bristol that won't sink a young company. Real prices, updated as we hear of them.
Open →In developmentPut your new product in front of other Bristol founders before launch — real early users, honest feedback while it can still change things.
Open →Five or six founders, half an hour of undivided attention each — the board-room you wish you had, without the suits.
Open →Pastoral careFriendship first, and a workplace chaplain when you need one — confidential and unhurried, in partnership with Bristol Chaplaincy.
Open →For the personAll the ways we look after the person behind the founder — because the build is never only about the business.
Open →Next First Friday: Fri 3 Jul, 8:30–11am · Boston Tea Party, Whiteladies Rd
Our monthly coffee — founders meeting as friends. No sign-up, just come.
We're builders, creators, founders, startups — passionate about creating and building, and excited to see the city of Bristol flourish.
Faith stays exactly where it has always been — in how the work is done, and in why it is given away.
The Town Square is the members' room behind these tools — 130+ Bristol founders, the directory of who does what, asks and offers answered by people who've been there, and a wave from someone building alongside you. Two minutes to join, nothing to pay, leave any time.