Founders Mesh: The Year-End Unwind | Founders & Investors Networking
While corporates throw office parties, founders throw resilience.
The year’s almost done. Startups have grown, crashed, pivoted, downsized, raised, or rage-quit Notion.
But somehow, we’re still here, and that deserves a toast.
While everyone else celebrates targets and bonuses, we’ll celebrate progress, persistence, and the glorious mess of building things that matter.
It’s not a “holiday party.”
It’s a collective exhale; a night for founders and investors to drop the pitch decks, pick up a drink, and remind ourselves why we do this.
What awaits you
Smart People, Zero Pretension
The familiar Founders Mesh crowd: builders, funders, dreamers, and doers; reconnecting before we all disappear into 2026 planning decks.
Short & Sweet Pitches
Our signature beer-crate moments. No decks, no judges, just 2-minute bursts of startup energy and real stories.
Good Beats, Better Drinks
A DJ set that starts conversations, not drowns them. And drinks & snacks by cornerstore, because they know how to do it best.
A Proper Toast
To the wins, the fuckups, and everything in between.
A Partner Perk That Actually Helps
Access to Make’s Startup Program: tools to automate the busywork so you start 2026 with more focus (and fewer headaches).
The Essentials
Date: Wednesday, December 10
Time: 18:30 onward
Location: cornerstore, Amsterdam
Vibe: Founder therapy disguised as a party
Dress code: Whatever you built your dreams in.
Why you’ll want to be there
It’s the last Founders Mesh of 2025, and we’re going out with style.
A curated crowd of founders, investors, and enablers who actually show up.
A celebration of a year that wasn’t easy for anyone, yet somehow became meaningful.
Because you deserve one night where you’re not overthinking, planning, or panicking.
A special perk from our partner Make: a year of tools that help your team move faster (and stress a little less).
This edition is powered by Make
For our Year-End Unwind edition, we’re excited to have Make join us as our partner: a platform that basically automates all the things you’ve been “meaning to fix after Q4.”
Make is an AI-powered no-code tool that lets startups create, build, and automate anything - from simple tasks to full AI solutions - without developers, code, or late-night duct-tape fixes. It’s speed, leverage, and sanity for lean teams.
And because it’s the season of giving (and unwinding), founders attending this edition will get access to the Make Startup Program, including:
Free access to the Make Teams plan for up to 1 year (value $1,188)
Best-practice library & startup community
Prioritized customer support
Basically: less manual work, more time to actually build (or decompress). A very on-brand partnership for this edition.