Founders Mesh: Curated Salon for Startup Founders & Investors

​Spring, finally. Amsterdam, again.

​We’re kicking off the season with our first invitation-only salon for startup and scaleup founders, alongside a carefully selected circle of active investors. Intimate by design. Curated with care. Built for conversations that move beyond small talk.

​We’ll open with a short, value-added exchange around a question most founders don’t ask early enough:

​who owns your stack?

​A grounded conversation with founders, operators, and OVHcloud on:
– building on AWS, GCP, Azure vs European alternatives
– where convenience turns into dependency
– what vendor lock-in actually looks like in practice
– and what breaks (or doesn’t) when you scale

​Joined by:
– Luis Galdamez Echeverria (moderating), co-founder of Founders Mesh
– Sohrab Hosseini, co-founder of Orq.ai
– GDPR & Privacy expert
– More panelists TBA

​No slides. No rehearsed answers. Think real trade-offs from people who’ve made these decisions.

​Then we do what we do best.

​A curated room of seed to series A founders, investors, and operators.

No randomness. No awkward networking. Just good people, good energy, and conversations that go somewhere.

​🍷Drinks & snacks included
👥 Invite-only / approval-based

​Powered by OVHcloud
The OVHcloud Startup Program empowers startups and scaleups with up to €100,000 in free cloud credits, technical support, and advanced hardware like GPUs - ensuring seamless growth without hidden fees. Plus, our dedicated Startup Program Lead provides personalized guidance to help you succeed.

​Join 5,000+ startups already benefiting from OVHcloud. Apply today and accelerate your journey at: https://startup.ovhcloud.com/nl/

​OVHcloud is the largest EU cloud provider with 44 Data Centers Worldwide. AMD and NVIDIA partner, and fully GDPR, HIPAA, and HDS compliant.

​Supported by Lovable
Lovable joins us as a community supporter, offering product credits to attendees to help bring ideas to life, test faster, and explore new directions.

​Why This Format Works

​We cap the room to protect quality.
We review attendance to shape balance.
We keep it paid to keep it intentional.

​Because when the room is right, everything else becomes easier.

​Why This Is Paid

​Because intentional rooms don’t build themselves.

​We cap capacity. We vet attendance. We protect founder–investor balance. We design the format.

​The ticket isn’t about entry. It’s about commitment and quality.

​Free events optimize for volume. We optimize for alignment.