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A community for the people
building in Dallas–Fort Worth.

A SHORT NOTE

DFW has founders. It’s missing a room. Founders Keepers is building one: a place where the people making companies, products, and ideas work side by side, show what they’ve made and meet the people they’ll build with next.

Ibrahim & AbdullahCo-founders, Founders Keepers

HOW IT WORKS

The format changes. The point doesn’t.

See the Vol. 01 recap

I Build

The long tables from the side, every seat working

Bring the real thing.

Come with what you’re building, not a pitch. The point is to move it forward, alongside people doing the same.

II Learn

The room turned toward the big screen, every seat full

Learn from people a step ahead.

From a workshop, a demo, or the founder in the next seat, you leave knowing something you didn’t when you walked in.

III Meet

Two builders talking with their hands, laptops aside

Talk to your table.

The people around you are the reason to come. That’s where the next cofounder, hire, or first user turns up.

IV What’s next

Two people talking under the feedback form on the big screen

Whatever you ask for next.

So far, a build night, a workshop and a dinner. What comes next is shaped by what you tell us after each one: more events, new formats, whatever the community needs.

See the Vol. 01 recap

WHO CAN COME

You don’t need a finished company. Bring something you’ve launched, something half-built, or an idea you’re ready to start.

If you’re building in DFW, or about to start, there’s a seat for you. You don’t apply to come: bring the thing you’re working on.

Meet the builders in the directory
Two founders standing together, smiling at the camera
A builder mid-story at her table, hands going
Four founders laughing at the end of a table
A builder smiling up from her laptop

WHY DFW

DFW has plenty of people building ambitious things. They shouldn’t have to find one another by accident.

Why we started