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Founders Club
Founders Club is Brazil's largest exclusive hub for startup founders, providing year-round support through a comprehensive ecosystem that includes education, networking, and business opportunities.
Overview
What Founders Club does
What Founders Club is
Founders Club is Brazil's largest exclusive hub for startup founders, providing year-round support through a comprehensive ecosystem that includes education, networking, and business opportunities.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2022
- Approximate age
- About 4 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 13, 2026
Official channels
Find Founders Club elsewhere
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Capability profile
Founders Club as a community
Community overview
Founders Club is a startup accelerator founded in July 2022, based in Brazil. It was initiated by Marcelo Wagner after the success of his startup, Suiteshare, which was sold to the unicorn VTEX. The organization aims to support startup founders throughout their journey by providing networking opportunities, connections with large companies and investors, and ongoing education.
Community focus
Founders Club focuses on supporting startups at various stages, from pre-seed to scale-up. It offers educational resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities with accelerators, venture capitalists, and government initiatives. The organization emphasizes continuous acceleration for startups across Brazil.
Member value
Members benefit from networking opportunities, connections with large companies and investors, ongoing education, and access to resources that support their startup growth.
Membership
- Recorded members
- 300
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- online
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community and course
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Growth Equity
- Regions
- Br
Community activity
Events and activity
Founders Club offers the Founders Academy, which provides access to live classes and mentorship on various topics relevant to startup growth, including marketing, sales, and fundraising. Members can access recorded sessions and participate in live Q&A sessions.
Notable members
Founders Club supports over 300 startups, including notable cases such as Licitei, Antler, and Quadruplica.
Common questions
What to know about Founders Club
Upseed classifies Founders Club under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 13, 2026
Known limits
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