About Us | Connect Ventures

🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities

We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People

A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.

Highline Beta | Corporate Venture Studios & Venture Building

We build ventures and venture studios with corporate partners and family offices through rigorous process, entrepreneurial grit, and capital.

Founders Hub | Transform Finance

The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.

Traits of Founding Teams That Win — An IT VC’s perspective

By Christopher J. Rust, Founding Partner, Clear Ventures

Gallery Ventures | Venture is an art

We are a stage-agnostic venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building the companies that shape our world.

HOME | A-Force Ventures

A-Force Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in female-led consumer, internet, and mobile startups.

Sidecar funds, corporate vehicles, club deals: how do startup studios get financed?

As explained in The Rise of Startup Studios, a white paper published by The Global Startup Studio Network in 2019, the term “startup…

Dripline: How we co-operate | Hypha

Notes on incorporation, co-operation, and solidarity from a one year old co-op.

P2 Ventures | Funding for dApps and Web3 projects

We’re looking to fund big ideas and innovative teams. Get your dream Web3 project funded through P2 Ventures.

⁂ community, collaboration, co-existence | Are.na

for building a collective future

Purpose Ventures - Purpose

Conventional VC is often at odds with the ambitions of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and their founding values and missions. These founders are interested in more than growth for growth’s sake. They want to build lasting, impactful businesses and preserve their mission in the future.

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CTO Craft Con: London

Join CTO Craft Con: London - an intimate, community-centered gathering for engineering leaders to connect, learn through insightful sessions, and build real peer relationships in a supportive environment.

Creative Pulse

We put together meetups & events for commercial creatives & freelancers in Vancouver. Network & meet with other talented creatives at our casual events.