Sponsors
Fuel it. Don't own it.
Badass Founders is free for every founder in the room, which means someone has to buy the coffee. That someone could be you.
How sponsorship works here
We thank sponsors loudly: name, logo, link, and genuine gratitude in the room. We do not sell endorsements, stage time for products, attendee lists, or the community's attention. In tax language: acknowledgment, not advertising. In human language: you fund the thing, you get the halo, founders keep the room.
That line is not a nice-to-have. It is what keeps an open community worth sponsoring in the first place.
Coffee
Keeps one chapter running for a season: the venue, the coffee, the name tags. Thanked by name and logo at that chapter's events and on its page.
City
Launches a new chapter from zero: organizer certification, first venues, the works. Named launch partner for that city, thanked at every event the chapter ever runs in its first year.
Torch
Carries the national program: organizer training, the toolkit, the platform behind all of it. Thanked everywhere, quietly and often, for as long as the flame is yours.
What sponsors never get
- Attendee data. Not the list, not the emails, not "just the ones who opted in."
- Stage time for products. The six minutes belong to founders and their scars.
- Editorial input. Speakers, stories, and format are the community's, full stop.
If that sounds like the kind of thing your brand wants to be next to, we would love to talk.