Founders Day: Turning Insights, Access & Connection into Undeniable Momentum in 2026
The tab you haven't closed
There's a decision you've been circling for six weeks. Maybe it's the grant application. Maybe it's whether to hire or contract. Perhaps it's the partnership conversation you keep drafting and not sending. It's not that you don't know enough. You've read the article, watched the talk, saved the thread. But the advice is general and your situation isn't, and nobody's told you what's actually working right now versus what worked two years ago.
The one person who could answer your real question in eight minutes is a professional who's handled it before and finding them takes three introductions and a fortnight. And you're doing most of it alone. The founder who solved this exact problem last quarter is out there somewhere, but they're not in your contacts, so you're rebuilding from scratch what someone two suburbs over already figured out.
So, it sits. And the momentum you had a few months ago quietly becomes the thing you meant to get to.
Founders Day closes the gap in one Friday.
A one-day summit designed to help driven founders to get hard things done and build momentum, with industry leaders, consults and coworking.
The morning answers what's working. Five panels across funding, marketing, ops and partnerships, on what's moving the needle right now, not two years ago. You leave each one knowing what to do next. The afternoon answers your question. Up to 100 consults from just 50 founders, with fourteen specialists across legal, finance, growth, tech and fundraising. Time held for you to put your actual situation in front of someone who's solved it before. Your grant, your hire, your deck, not general advice. And you stop doing it alone. Fifty founders at the same stage, hitting the same wall. The person who cracked your problem last quarter is next to you at lunch instead of two suburbs away.
No more waiting months for help to arrive in fragments. This day brings it all together, because decisions get made faster when the answer is standing ten meters away. You leave with next steps beyond a reading list. With actions you can complete in the afternoon.
What You Get
What We Cover
8:45 AM · Doors, coffee, opening remarks
9:15 AM · Panels begin
12:30 PM · Founder lunch
1:15 PM · Consults and coworking
4:30 PM · Closing remarks
6:30 PM · Afterparty
1:1 Consults With 14 Mentors
Book sessions across legal, finance and accounting, marketing and growth, product and tech, fundraising and grants, partnerships, ops and hiring. Pick what you need. Most founders book two or three.
Five Expert Panels
Sales, Partnerships and Sponsors in the Age of Agents
Marketing Rewrite: Keeping Attention When Everyone Has AI
Ops Without the Overhead: The AI-Native Stack
The Equity-Free Funding Game in 2026
Fundraising for Startups in 2026: What's Actually Working
A Full Day of Coworking
Stone & Chalk floor space. Work alongside people building the same thing you are.
Food and Drinks
Coffee from 8:45. Founder lunch. Afterparty with drinks and dessert.
We Know it's Underpriced - Here's Why
Booking these specialists individually would run you well over a thousand dollars, before you count the space, the food, or a conference ticket. Founders Day is $20. But given this is the first event of its kind, and our mission it to level the playing field for 1st gen migrants we're subsidising tickets. That gap exists because Catalysr and Uncommon Collective close, and our sponsors cover the rest. Nobody's making money on your ticket.
Who This is For
Founders and operators running real businesses with real revenue. Migrant and refugee founders especially. Growth-stage, not idea-stage. People who leave with a next step, not a notebook full of theory.
Speakers & Mentors
Speakers Across Panels
Partnerships, Sales and Sponsorship in the Age of Agents
- Mike Davis, Ozer Bilgin, Daniel Rooney and Lisa Le
Marketing Rewrite: Keeping Attention When Everyone Has
- Luke Marshall, Miriam Deliva and Shaye Pumar
Ops & Tech the Overhead: The AI-Native Stack
- Safiollah Heidari, Rida Jafri, Imtiaz Aziz among other speakers
The Equity-Free Funding Game in 2026
- Jasper Steel, Usman Iftikhar, and Michelle Chen among other speakers
Fundraising for startups in 2026: What's Actually Working
- Angus Keck, Safi and Usman Iftikhar, among other speakers
Mentors
For Tech, AI and Automations - Christian Grancourt, Kasper Kane and Safiollah Heidari
For Branding, Got to Market and Marketing
-Shaye Pumar and Miriam Deliva among others
For Finance
-Rida Jafri among others
For Legal
-Nathan Lu and Vivek Dahiya
For Sales, Partnerships and Sponsors
-Daniel Rooney, Lisa Le and Francesco Brancato among others
For Equity Free Funding
-Jasper Steel and Usman Iftikhar
For Equity Based Funding (VCs, Angels and PE)
-Daniel Rooney and Dev among others
Just fifty spots. Booked in order of registration.