A community of ambitious people
Coffee with a purpose
For Entrepreneurs
A weekly table in London for founders who are actually building something. Show up, get stuff done, meet people who get it.
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Inside our tables
Real founders. Real meetups. Every week.
What is CommonFounders?
The most powerful business
tool isn't an app —
it's a shared table.
A relaxed meet up for founders and big thinkers to meet, connect, and exchange ideas in real life.
5 – 8 people per table.
Every week. In your city.
The part nobody warned you about.
You're making decisions nobody around you has to make. Carrying weight that doesn't switch off. The 2am grind. The shower thought at 7am. Months of work that don't move the number.
Your partner listens. Your oldest friends nod along. Your family is proud of you. But none of them can actually understand you.
You want fewer DMs and more real conversations. Fewer shallow contacts and more shared experiences. Fewer “we should catch up sometime” and more meet-ups that actually happen.
You don't need another Slack channel, and you don't need to figure it all out on your own. You need a few genuine, curious peers who'll challenge your thinking and push back on your bad ideas.
The membership
01
Lonely decisions are expensive.
Stop paying that tax.
Some communities are built around apps. This one is built around showing up.
02
Unlimited weekly events & meetups
The coffee meetups you can book in here are just one feature. Inside the community there's a full weekly calendar of private events you won't find anywhere out here — and members get all of it.
03
The rest is members-only
Saturday hot seats, private founder dinners, monthly day trips, retreats worldwide — the full calendar opens the day you join.
Sunday coffee meetup
Open to everyone
Wednesday café work sessions
Members only
Saturday hot seat sessions
The Founders Table, one real pain point — mentor, mirror & mentee weigh in
Private founder dinners
Members only
Monthly day trips & retreats
Padel & countryside hikes — plus an end-of-month trip the members vote on
The inner circle
Your people a message away — any hour, any question, no filter
And
The stuff you didn't see coming
What starts as a coffee on a Sunday morning sometimes turns into the best hour of your week. Nobody joins for the calendar. They remember the Sunday someone mentioned a problem over coffee and the answer was sitting right across the table.
That's the thing you're joining.
“I didn't join a platform. I found a group of people in London — we work together on Wednesday mornings, we did this insane day trip last month. That's it. That's the thing.”
Sarah M.
Founder | Maple Studio
Design & Branding
📍 London, UK
“I'd been building solo for a year and barely spoke to anyone who got it. Two Wednesdays in and I had people I could ask the hard questions. That changed everything.”
James O.
Founder | Ledgerly
Fintech for freelancers
📍 London, UK
“It's not networking — it's just your people. I've shipped faster, hired better, and had more fun in three months here than the whole year before.”
Priya N.
Founder | Bloomwork
Hiring & people tools
📍 London, UK
What to expect
Here's what you're actually signing up for
A small group of founders and entrepreneurs who meet regularly in London. No pitching, no forced networking, no name badges. Just people who are building something, showing up consistently, and making it easier for each other to do the same.
You'll get access to a private group chat that's actually worth being in. The kind of room where a stuck week turns around in an afternoon, where you get an honest answer before you sink a month into the wrong thing, and where the intro you needed is one message away. You stop guessing in private. You build faster because you're not doing it alone.
The fastest way to learn is from the wins and mistakes of other founders who've been there, done that.
London
Upcoming events
The Founders Club
Apply to join
We keep the number off the public site on purpose. Membership is a single annual investment, by application — and we'll show you the exact cost on the apply form.
Sunday coffee meetup
Open to everyone
Wednesday café work sessions
Members only
Saturday hot seat sessions
The Founders Table, one real pain point — mentor, mirror & mentee weigh in
Private founder dinners
Members only
Monthly day trips & retreats
Padel & countryside hikes — plus an end-of-month trip the members vote on
The inner circle
Your people a message away — any hour, any question, no filter
Takes around 10 minutes · we read every one personally
Common questions
Anything we missed?
We'll tell you the exact cost on the apply form — we keep it off the public site on purpose, so the people who join are here for the room, not the price tag. It's a single annual membership, billed once a year, and founding members lock today's rate for as long as they stay. No monthly drip, no hidden add-ons.
We read every application ourselves — no bots, no auto-replies. If it looks like a fit we'll reach out within a few days to say hello and get you in, usually starting with your first table or a quick intro call. If the timing isn't right, we'll tell you honestly rather than leave you waiting.
Honestly? As much as you want. There's no minimum login or required calls. But immersing yourself is when this stops being a community and starts being family.
Anyone building something. A startup, a side project, a freelance business — if you're working on something and want to be around others doing the same, you're in the right place.
Your first public coffee meetup is just £10 — a small fee to keep things intentional. The weekly private events, founder tables and chat are all part of membership.
Everyone does a quick intro — who you are, what you're working on, one thing you're currently figuring out. From there the conversation runs itself. No agenda, no pitching, no awkward small talk.
Local cafés in London with a good vibe and enough space to actually talk. We keep it casual on purpose.
Weekly work sessions on Wednesdays, Sunday coffee meetups for new faces, and something a little different thrown in each month.