Find a co-founder in Bengaluru

Bengaluru is full of engineers and product people, which makes the co-founder search look easier than it is. The hard part isn't finding someone who can build. It's finding someone who wants to build your thing, at your stage, on terms you both agree on — before three months of weekends go into finding out.

Most searches here still run on meetups, alumni groups and a friend of a friend at a product company. Those work when the friend knows exactly what you need. They stall when they don't.

Tell Cleya what you're building and the kind of partner you need: skills, stage, and how you'd split the work. She looks for someone who fits and tells you the reason it's a fit. Nothing is shared until both of you say yes, and if either side says "maybe later", nothing is shared at all.

Introductions come a few at a time, and Cleya never emails your contacts or posts for you. We can't promise a co-founder in Bengaluru — who has applied from any one city changes over time — so you'll only hear about someone when there's a genuine reason to meet.