Austin charter open · 8 seats remaining
FF Founding Fathers
Est. 2026 · Austin, TX

Father firstFounder second

A club for men building companies and raising kids at once. We meet in person, on the water and off the clock, to support, educate and empower each other through pressures nobody else quite sees.

142
Members
318
Kids between them
Meets per month
150
Cap per city
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Dads on a boat, Lake Austin
Support

The pressure comes from every angle at once

Your investors don't want to hear about the nap schedule. The dads at school don't want to hear about the raise. Half our meets happen on the water, where both halves of your life are allowed in the same conversation.

  1. 01Nobody to ask. Here you get both halves in one room.
  2. 02Time that isn't yours. Kids welcome at half the meets.
  3. 03The long game. Companies exit, kids don't.
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Dads at an investing talk
Educate

Rooms where the numbers get said out loud

Once a month a member or an outside operator takes the floor: raising, selling, allocating, the personal balance sheet nobody posts about. No pitch competitions and no panels of four. One person, one topic, real questions after.

Raising Exits Investing Estate & family

Schedule

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Sep
19
Sunrise swim, Barton SpringsDads only
Zilker Park · 6:45 AM · 6 of 20 left
Sep
27
Boats & burgers, Lake AustinKids welcome
Walsh Boat Landing · 10:00 AM · Waitlist
Oct
08
Hard talk: the money runs outMembers only
The Annex, East 6th · 7:00 PM · 14 of 30 left

The roster

MO
Marcus Oyelaran
2 kids · 4, 7
Founder & CEO
Palletwise
JT
Jonah Trevino
1 kid · 18 mo
Co-founder & CTO
Halcyon Health
DR
Dev Ramanathan
3 kids · 2, 5, 9
Founder
Cedar & Line
SK
Sam Kowalczyk
2 kids · 6, 11
Managing partner
Runoff Capital

Membership is by invitation, and small on purpose

We cap each city at 150 so the room stays a room. Tell us about your company and your kids. We answer within a week.