Café2035 · Agentic Solo Founders, Day Zero
🤗 Update: Pre-seed is too slow, so we’re experimenting with pre-pre-seed — live and AI-assisted. 🧪
At the event, I’ll test an AI-assisted, human-reviewed process to identify solo founders for whom a small $5K checkcould be unusually high-leverage.
Solo founders with a score above 70 may be eligible for consideration.
Subject to final review, eligibility, legal docs, and clean diligence, I may invest $5K via a post-money SAFE at a $1M post-money cap, targeting roughly 0.5%.
The score is directional:
1/3 founder profile
1/3 idea potential
1/3 founder–idea fit / taste alignment
For everyone else: the check is not the main point it’s only $5K. The real value is momentum: getting sh*t done, meeting sharp people, and leaving with a builder/vibe buddy for a 1-week sprint.
It’s an experiment, so yes, something may break. That’s part of the fun (but working hard for it to work!)
Any investment is case-by-case and subject to final diligence and documentation. The AI score is only an input, not a final decision.
📋 The basics
Who it's for:
Solo founders. Or anyone who wants to be one. That's the whole filter.
Sidefounders welcome. Got a day job? Just got laid off? Sold your last company for $10M and figuring out what's next? You belong here.
You're agentic. You move or want to move at 100x powered by AI
You have an idea, ten ideas, or no idea yet. All welcome.
You're at day zero. Pre-incorporation, pre-funding, pre-revenue. Or you've been at it a few weeks but nothing real yet.
Any idea is welcome. B2B SaaS, weird consumer apps, niche tools, lifestyle businesses, AI agents nobody asked for, things that will only ever make $50K a year, things that might be the next OpenAI. You don't need to be building the next unicorn. You don't need to sound like a VC pitch. You just need to be building and have fun!
What to bring:
Yourself
A laptop or phone
A public LinkedIn (required, this is how we verify you're real)
An open mind. No deck, no polish needed.
What we provide:
Food and drinks
The 2035 app, live in the room
A room full of other solo founders
Music, mingle, and a good time
🎁 If we hit 100+ attendees, there's a surprise. Help us get there. Pass it on.
What you'll actually do
Meet other solo founders moving at your speed. Share what's working and what isn't. Get matched by the AI to someone you should know. Commit to a 1-week sprint together. Eat. Drink. Have fun.
🕐 The 2 hours
1. Welcome + the community (10 min) Who we are, who's in the room, why we're building this together.
2. The world in 2035 + Q&A (10 min) What AI is changing. What new kinds of startups are now possible. Why now is the moment. Bring questions.
3. Vibe pitch in the 2035 app (20 min) Open the app. Pitch your idea, pick one up, or remix one from the room. Fast, playful, no polish required.
4. Meet your match + the mingle (80 min) The AI matches you with another solo founder based on real fit. You commit to a 1-week sprint together, on your own terms, your own time, your own scope. Then food, drinks, music, conversations that go where they want to go.
Solo founders can feel lonely. Not anymore.
You walk in solo. You walk out with a match, a 1-week pact, and a few new friends who actually get it.
Why we're doing this
We believe 2035 will be a better world. But only if enough solo founders build it. AI just made that possible at a scale we've never seen. One person with a laptop and a few agents can now ship what used to take a startup full of people
That changes everything. And it changes who gets to build. You don't need a Stanford MBA, a $5M seed round, or a 10-person team. You need an idea (or the willingness to find one) and a few weeks of focus worst case > try again next week!
Café2035 is for the people stepping into that. We're here to help you launch.
👤 Who's behind this
Hosted by Franck Nouyrigat, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Startup Weekend (500K+ founders, 150+ countries, 7,000+ programs, acquired by Techstars - Unicorn Alumni Zapier, Rover). Advisor at NoCap (YC W23, the first AI-driven investor, 1,500+ founders across 40+ countries). Also Co-founder of Massive (joinmassive.com) and Electis electis.com his passion is to design founders communities at scale to support founders.
⚠️ This is a beta. Please read.
Café2035 is an experimental event format. Like any startups building a product, designing a great event imply experimenting, I'm testing how an app, AI matchmaking, and a real room of solo founders work together it’s a little scary 😱 but we will have a lot of fun ❤️
You'll need to share some public data:
Public LinkedIn required. This is how we verify you're a real person.
Some data will be shared publicly. Your professional profile, your in-app pitch, your match, and your participation activity may be visible to other attendees and used to improve the format. You control what you share beyond this baseline.
Solo founders only. This event is for solo founders, sidefounders, or people who want to become one. Day zero, building with AI.
You're helping us build version 0.1. The format will evolve based on what we learn. Your feedback is part of the deal.
More to come. This is the first of many. We have a few surprises planned.
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This event is hosted at the Frontier Tower:
We are transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village—a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, makerspace, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.
Apply here for founding citizenship: https://frontiertower.io/apply
Why should I become a citizen?
Be part of creating the first self-governed vertical village
Connect with the most creative people in the city
Get access to all floors, free event space & movement floor
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