Everything you need to know about Onfound.

Onfound is the networking app for founders. It plugs you into your local founder community with a searchable directory of founders, operators and investors, member-hosted meetups built around activities like coffee walks, hikes, runs, sauna and coworking, direct messaging, and an AI networking agent (AutoPilot) that finds the people and opportunities relevant to what you are building. Live in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, Bangkok, Lisbon, and Porto, with 150+ cities launching worldwide. Free to join.

Onfound was founded by Koa Browne in 2025. Koa is a founder, extreme sport enthusiast, and has navigated the challenges of entrepreneurship for over a decade. He built Onfound because he needed it himself: a way to meet people who care deeply about what they are building. Read the full story.

Onfound is built for every stage of the founder journey: Active Founders running a business, Early Stage Founders just getting started, Future Founders still employed but dreaming of building, and Supporters like investors, advisors, and mentors who want to stay close to the action.

Join for free at app.onfound.com, create your account, pick your city, and build out your founder profile, right from your browser (the iOS and Android apps are in testing and launching soon). Onboarding takes about 10 minutes. The moment you finish, you are in the community with full access to your home city.

You are in. Instantly. The moment you submit the last step, you land in the app with full access to your city’s founder community, upcoming meetups, and messaging. No approval queue. You can send your first DM or RSVP to your first meetup within the same minute. (If you join in a city that is still on the waitlist, you keep your spot and are first in the moment it goes live.)

Most new members RSVP to their first meetup within their first week, and meet other founders within 7-10 days. If you prefer, you can DM founders from the community on day one, responses usually come within 24-48 hours.

No. Onfound is explicitly for all four archetypes: active founders, early stage founders, future founders still employed, and supporters (investors, advisors, mentors). You do not need a pitch deck or a company to join.

Yes. The Free tier includes full access to your home city’s founder community and meetups: browse the directory, RSVP to any meetup, host your own meetup, and message founders directly. Free includes 3 new conversations per week (replies, and chats with anyone you share a meetup with, are always unlimited), 3 Onfound Intelligence searches per week, 3 saved founders, and a home city change every 30 days. No credit card required.

PRO is available in 1, 3, or 6 month plans. In USD: $19 for 1 month, $44.99 for 3 months (save 21%), or $61.99 for 6 months (save 46%). Plans renew at the same price until you cancel. Full pricing and other currencies are shown in the app at checkout.

Every Onfound city, unlimited messaging, unlimited Onfound Intelligence searches across all cities, AutoPilot (a weekly delivery of founders worth meeting for your goals, each with a drafted intro), unlimited saved founders, full member profiles, Insights, access to Communities, partner perks, and advanced hosting: unlimited meetups at once, PRO formats like masterminds and workshops, custom titles and descriptions, groups up to 50, and paid options.

PRO is priced in USD, GBP, EUR, ZAR, and AUD. The app picks your currency automatically based on your home city, and you are charged exactly the price you see at checkout.

Yes. Cancel from inside the app and you will keep PRO until the end of your current billing period, then drop back to Free. No penalties, no hassle.

Yes. If you are not happy in your first 14 days of PRO, email support@onfound.com and we will refund you in full, no questions asked.

Live in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, London, Bangkok, Lisbon, and Porto. Over 150 cities are on the waitlist across 40+ countries including New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Tel Aviv, Singapore, São Paulo, Dubai, Sydney, and more. See the full list.

Join the waitlist in the app. You will be first in when we open. If your city is not even on the waitlist, email support@onfound.com and tell us, when we see enough interest, we open it up.

Yes, with PRO. One PRO membership unlocks every Onfound city, useful if you travel, relocate, or want to build a global founder network. On the Free tier, you are limited to your home city and can only change it once every 30 days.

Each Onfound city is its own community. Free gives you full access to your local scene so you can get value from day one. PRO is for founders who travel, relocate, or want to build a global network, where one-city access would get in the way.

Ask Onfound Intelligence for exactly who you need (“a technical co-founder in fintech”), or browse your founder community and filter by industry, stage, and skills. Every suggestion comes with the reason you two might build together. Message anyone directly, or RSVP to a meetup where they will be.

Real activities hosted by real members: coffee walks, dinners, runs, hikes, swims, cycling, sauna, ice baths, yoga, padel, tennis, golf, book clubs, game nights, co-working, and 30+ formats in total. Every host picks a topic worth talking about, from finding customers to raising money to founder wellbeing. PRO hosts also unlock masterminds, workshops, roundtables, pitch practice, coaching sessions, and retreats. No pitch nights, no awkward name-tag networking.

Every member has a profile with their archetype (Active Founder, Early Stage, Future Founder, or Supporter), industry, what they are working on, what they can help with, what they need help on, and activities they enjoy. Browse the directory in your city, filter by any of those fields with Smart Filters, and Onfound Intelligence tells you the specific reasons to reach out.

Onfound Intelligence and AutoPilot read what members are building, what they need and where they can help, then suggest the people most relevant to you with a plain reason for each one. It is a starting point, not a verdict. You always choose who to message.

Onfound Intelligence is the AI search built into the app. Describe who you need to meet in plain language, “a growth marketer who has scaled a B2B product,” and it searches the founder community and returns the people worth talking to, each with the reason why and a drafted intro you can edit before sending. Free members get 3 answered searches per week in their home city. PRO members search without limits, across every Onfound city.

AutoPilot is Onfound’s AI networking agent. Set up to 3 active goals in plain language (raise a round, land your first customers, hire a designer) and every Monday morning it delivers the founders worth meeting for each goal, with the reason why and an intro drafted for you. Goals stay active for 60 days, and you can reconfirm, rest, or swap them anytime. AutoPilot is included with PRO.

Communities are focused groups inside Onfound where founders post, share wins, and help each other around a shared topic. Access is included with PRO, and the earliest members of each community can claim a founding seat that stays free forever. Some communities are open to join right away, others let you request to join with approval from the community admin.

Yes, every member can host for free. Pick a format, choose a topic, set a time and location, and your city sees it. Free members host one meetup at a time with the standard formats and up to 6 spots. PRO members host unlimited meetups with custom titles and descriptions, groups up to 50, extra formats like masterminds and workshops, and paid options. Hosting is one of the fastest ways to build your own founder community in your city.

Onfound runs as a web app today, so you can join for free and do everything from any browser on your phone or laptop: build your profile, browse the founder community, RSVP to meetups, and message directly. The native iOS and Android apps are built and in testing now, and members get them on both platforms the moment they launch.

As little or as much as you want. Most members check the app 2-3 times a week, RSVP to one or two meetups, and send a few DMs. Meetups are usually 60-90 minutes of an activity you would be doing anyway (coffee, surf, co-working), so the marginal time cost is near zero.

LinkedIn is transactional and job-focused. Onfound shows what someone is building, what they need help with, and the activities they enjoy, not just a job title. Onfound Intelligence and AutoPilot surface specific reasons to reach out, and meetups give you a natural reason to meet in person. Onfound is the bridge between discovering someone online and building a real relationship offline.

Those are cohort-based and application-only, with high prices ($1,000+/year) and curated intake. Onfound is free to join, open to every stage of the founder journey, and organized around local city communities rather than time-boxed cohorts. You meet people who live near you, not strangers in a Slack group spread across 30 time zones.

No. Meetup.com is a general-purpose events platform covering every topic. Onfound is specifically for founders, with a member directory, an AI networking agent and activity-based meetups made for the founder crowd. Every person at an Onfound meetup is there to connect with other founders.

Pitch events are transactional and awkward. Mixers are surface-level. Activities (coffee walks, padel, sauna, co-work) give founders a shared context, you are doing something you both enjoy, with enough time and space for real conversations to unfold. The best founder relationships we have seen started at an activity, not at a networking event.

Only verified Onfound members in your city (and globally if you are on PRO). Your profile is never public, never indexed by Google, and never shared outside the app. You can also hide specific fields or go quiet mode if you need a break.

Members verify via email, and every profile goes through AI moderation during onboarding, designed to filter out low-effort and fake signups. We also monitor for spam and have a report flow for any member who violates community guidelines.

Yes, anytime from inside the app. Account deletion removes your profile from the directory, cancels any active subscription, and deletes your message history from our active database. Email support@onfound.com if you need help.