Founders publish a co-founder search. People who want to join say what they need. Cofoundista scores the fit in both directions and introduces you only when both say yes.
Ledgerleaf turns the bookkeeping of small companies into carbon reports. Maya sells, and she needs someone to build the platform. So she publishes a co-founder search.
Backend engineer, ten years in fintech. Alex has no idea of his own, but he wants to build a company from the start as a co-founder. So he sets his terms and lets the searches come to him.
Maya and Alex are fictional people, their portraits generated with AI.
Every pair of a search and a person is scored twice: what the search needs from the person, and what the person needs from the venture. The mutual fit is the lower of the two, so a suggestion works for both.
Example: Maya's search and Alex's profile, fictional people. Skills fit partly: Maya also looks for cloud operations.
Each criterion fits, partly fits or does not fit, and counts by its weight. You always see why.
Each side marks what is a must. A must that does not fit fully keeps the two out of each other's list.
Up to 5 open requests per person, up to 10 open invites per search, so every intro gets attention.
Your co-founder is the one role a job ad can't fill. Here's how to find yours on Cofoundista.
Sign up with your email. No password needed: you get a six-digit code. The onboarding starts. Let us know how you want to use the matching platform. Markus is looking for a co-founder for his energy start-up.
Now create your profile: your role, your skills, how much time you put in, and a short bio. Give some insights about your work style, and provide at least one link about you and your work. Have you founded a company before? Let others know about your experience. Recheck your data and finally submit it. Your profile goes live right away, and our team checks it in the background, so the people you meet are real.
Now start your co-founder search. Describe the venture and the type of co-founder you are looking for. Define how much time you expect from your co-founder, and how much equity and salary you offer. You can also add your current team members here, but don't forget to ask your buddies for permission. Optionally, select which criteria are an absolute must-have for you. Your search will now be reviewed and go live if it complies with our code of conduct.
Once your search is live, Cofoundista suggests candidates. And it shows why they fit, in both directions. Send an intro. Contact details are shared only when both sides say yes.
Start your search at cofoundista.com. For a short time, it's free with the code BETA26.
Joining a venture as co-founder is free: your profile, the suggestions and your intros. Founders publish their co-founder searches with a plan. During the beta, plans come from vouchers and from programme partners such as incubators, so founders publish for free too.
Visitors never see profiles, only the teasers of searches. Members see your first name, role, skills, city and bio, and your photo if you show it to members. Your full name, links and terms follow in an intro. Email and phone are shared only after both of you said yes.
By rules, not by AI. Each criterion fits, partly fits or does not fit, and counts by its weight. Must-haves have to fit fully. Each side gets its own score, and the mutual score is the lower of the two, so a match has to work for both.
Our team. A profile goes live when you submit it. We screen it in the background and step in when needed. A search is checked before it goes live, usually within 48 hours. We check quality against the published criteria: complete, no selling services, no hiring. We don't select people.
You both get an email with full names, email and phone, and the match page shows them too. The conversation continues outside Cofoundista. 14 days later we ask both of you how it went.
Cofoundista is for founders and co-founders in Europe: the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, starting in English and German. The beta phase starts with programme partners in selected countries.
Yes, at any time in your settings. Your account is hidden at once, and you can cancel for 14 days. After that we delete it permanently. You can also download all the data we keep about you.
