Amplify Founder Potential, Simplify Ops
Elevate your platform's founder support capabilities - it's like implementing a high-powered leadership development system that scales with your portfolio, without overwhelming your ops team.
Designed for founders, by First Round Capital Platform Team alum
How Founders Benefit
Expand the Toolkit
Access proven tools, frameworks, and resources to always stay sharp.
Master the Art of Influence
Master persuasion, inspiration, and motivation to maintain a competitive edge
Strengthen the Leader Within
Reflect, grow, and develop resilience with a personal advisory board for leadership insight
How It Works
Give your founders a personal board of advisors facilitated by one of our top executive coaches
Select 6-10 Founders for a Cohort
Bring founders from your portfolio together for interactive group sessions designed to foster clarity, connection, and vulnerability.
Founders Meet Weekly for Twelve 75-minute Sessions
Sessions are supported by our platform and alternate between research-based topical content and opportunities to apply learnings.
Get Visibility Into Milestones With Reporting Tools
Receive session-level reports with session engagement, attendance, satisfaction data, and more. The Grand’s quarterly updates also let you track founders' progress over time.
Founders master these core competencies and more
FAQ
Based on over 900 sessions, we’ve found 6-10 is the sweet spot for optimal learning in a group setting with one coach. If you’re looking for something more custom, contact us!
Our executive coaches are all certified through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) or equivalent. As seasoned operators, their backgrounds span across organizational development, product and technical leadership, entrepreneurship, mediation and law, and more. Our coaches are experts at what they do and bring years of coaching experience and a wealth of training hours to any challenge your team may face.
We partner with you to understand your leaders’ development priorities and create an experience that best supports them. We offer different levels of customizability, depending on your needs.
Each cohort has a Slack group that members of the cohort use to keep in touch outside of sessions.