01 / Barcelona — Founding Teams
Find your founding team.
Great companies start with a founding team and a coffee. Founders & Coffee is Barcelona’s community for founders and founding teams — meet vetted builders and start, or join, the company you can’t build alone.
Applications open — Barcelona cohort
The match
Technical ✦ Business
complementary cofounders, matched by hand
In person
Coffees & dinners
test the chemistry IRL
The community
Private Discord
Barcelona’s serious builders
The plan
BCN → EU
Barcelona first, then Europe
Great companies start with a founding team and a coffee.
02 / The problem
The hard part isn’t the idea. It’s finding the person.
Most founders meet their cofounder by luck — an old classmate, a former colleague, a friend of a friend. If your network doesn’t happen to contain the right person at the right moment, you wait. Or you settle. Or you never start.
Barcelona is full of brilliant, ambitious builders who will never cross paths. Founders & Coffee exists to make that introduction — deliberately, and over a good coffee.
03 / How it works
Five steps from solo to shipping.
Apply
Tell us who you are, what you bring, and who you're looking for. We keep the bar high — this is a curated room.
Join the community
Get accepted and step into the private Founders & Coffee Discord — Barcelona's most serious builders, trading intros, advice, and opportunities every day.
Get matched
We hand-match you with builders whose skills, ambition, and working style complement yours. No endless swiping, no noise.
Meet
Connect over coffee, at our founder dinners, and at events. Test the chemistry in person before you commit.
Build
Form your founding team and start the company you couldn't build alone. We stay in your corner as you grow.
04 / Membership
Start free. Go deeper when you’re ready.
Free
Get in the room.
€0
- ▪Cofounder & founding-team matching
- ▪The private Discord community
- ▪Apply to every event (pay per ticket)
Pro
Show up everywhere.
€9/mo
- ▪Everything in Free
- ▪Free access to all coffee events & dinners
- ▪More matches — priority intros
- ▪The full founder toolkit
Business
For first-time founders.
€49/mo
- ▪Everything in Pro
- ▪1:1 mentoring & support for first-time founders
- ▪Office hours with experienced founders
- ▪Priority for partner & investor intros
▪ Founding cohort: all tiers free while we build the room
What you might bring
- / Technical
- / Product
- / Design
- / Business & Sales
- / Domain expertise
Where you are
- / Have an idea, need a team
- / Open to ideas, want to build
- / Want to join a founding team
One rule: you’re serious about building a company in the next 12 months.
05 / Why Barcelona
One of Europe’s great founder cities — finally connected.
Sun, talent, and ambition in the same place. Barcelona pulls builders from across the world and has produced companies like Glovo, Typeform, Factorial, and TravelPerk. What it has lacked is a dedicated, high-trust way for those builders to find each other.
#1
startup hub in Southern Europe (Startup Heatmap 2025)
~22%
of Barcelona is international — a magnet for global founders
NEXT
Lisbon, then Berlin, Paris & Amsterdam
06 / Questions
The honest answers.
Is it free?+
Joining the inaugural Barcelona cohort is free. We'll always keep core matching accessible — Founders & Coffee is a community first.
Is this only for cofounders?+
No. It's for anyone who wants in at the start — cofounders, founding engineers, and early team. If you want to build, or help build, a company from day one, you belong here.
Do I need to have an idea?+
No. Many members are still exploring. We match idea-havers with idea-seekers, and builders with builders. What matters is that you're serious about starting.
Technical or business — which do you want?+
Both. The strongest companies are built by complementary teams. Whatever you bring, we're looking for the people who complete it.
I'm not in Barcelona. Can I still join?+
We're starting in Barcelona and expanding across the EU. Apply anyway — tell us your city, and you'll be first in line when we arrive.
Do you take equity?+
Never. We're a community, not an accelerator. We help you build your founding team — the company is entirely yours.
What makes a strong application?+
Specificity and seriousness. Show us what you've built, what you're great at, and what you actually want. Generic applications don't make the cut.
Coffee. Cofounders. Community.
Your company starts with one coffee.
Free · Barcelona · for the EU