The Grid
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Community ops on demand

Unlock Revenue Streams For Your Founder Community.

Your very own community ops team, without the cost of hiring one. We'll find you sponsors, support you logistically, and turn the value you're creating into real revenue.

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Notion
HSBC
Fiverr
Connectd
Oneder
Stripe
Solana Foundation
Notion
HSBC
Fiverr
Connectd
Oneder
Stripe
Solana Foundation

You've built something people love, without the resources to sustain it long-term.

Your community is immensely valuable: founders find friends, investors get dealflow, and employers find their next hire. Despite that, you're under-resourced and overstretched.

The ecosystem is built on your back.

You deserve more.

Find Sustainability With The Grid.

The Grid connects the UK's top founder communities into one shared ops and revenue engine.

Unlock Revenue Streams

Tap into the value you're already generating.

Sponsorships

We source, pitch, and close sponsorship deals on your behalf.

Network Revenue

Commercial partners pay to access the power of our collective distribution.

Talent Placement coming soon

We match talent from your community into startups and scaleups.

Plug Into An Ops Team

World-class operators who care about community as much as you do.

Partnership Manager

Builds the commercial relationships your community needs to grow.

Venue Sourcing coming soon

Better spaces without the scramble.

Community Ops On Demand coming soon

Event logistics, content, comms, and the operational support you need to keep running.

Simple & Easy.

01

Plug In When You Need Us

No full-time hires. Activate the team only when you need us.

02

Stay Independent

We run the engine, you stay in the driver's seat.

03

Access Support At No Cost

No upfront fees. We make money only when you make money.

How It Works.

We close deals and revenue-share with you.

Get Onboarded

01

Apply

Join a curated network of the top founder communities in the UK.

02

Create Profile

Create your community profile — your stats, your members, your story.

03

List Your Offerings

Show us what makes your community valuable. Events, content, audiences — the things sponsors will pay for.

Start Earning

04

Do Sponsorship Deals

We bring you sponsors and partnerships. You decide what to take.

05

Participate In Joint Events

Together we can offer sponsors access to a larger, more valuable founder network — and command higher fees than any one community could alone.

06

Join The Talent Pool coming soon

Earn talent placement fees when your members get placed into startups and scaleups.

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Revenue Share

We take a fee from sponsorship deals closed, talent placement revenue, and joint event income. No upfront cost.

Plug Into The Power Of The Collective

A Vetted Network Of Sponsors

Brands, agencies, and corporates actively looking to partner with founder communities.

A Community Of Community Builders

Support from people who get it.

Pre-Negotiated Venue Partners

Better spaces for events, dinners, and workshops — without the scramble.

Coming soon

A Curated Talent Pool

The most cracked operators in the UK — ready to plug into your members' startups and scaleups.

Coming soon

By Community Builders, For Community Builders.

Created by the folks behind Plugged — after years of learning the hard way how to run communities that people trust, sponsors value, and founders keep coming back to.

Now we're building the infrastructure so other founder communities can do the same.

Here are our stats.

Consistent delivery at scale
85+
events over two years
Commercially sustainable
£300K
ecosystem revenue generated
Recurring revenue
£10K/mo
workspace recurring revenue
Trusted by serious builders
$153M
raised by founders in our ecosystem
Members who stay
97%
retention rate for workspace members
Without losing the magic
4.8/5
av rating on Luma across 1,500+ attendees
Founders in our ecosystem have raised from
a16z
Antler
Entrepreneurs First
Sequoia
Y Combinator
a16z
Antler
Entrepreneurs First
Sequoia
Y Combinator

The Power Of Community.

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