The Austin chapter is open · 8 seats remaining
FF Founding Fathers
Est. 2026 · Founded in Austin

Where fathers who are founders build, support and grow

A club for men building companies and raising kids at once. We meet in person, city by city, 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
01
Chapters open
150
Seats per chapter

Placeholder figures — real numbers to come.

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Dads on the water, chapter meet
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

Chapters

All chapters →

One club, run city by city. Each chapter meets twice a month, caps at 150 members, and is run by its own committee.

Austin 8 seats left

The founding chapter. Sunrise swims at Barton Springs, boats on Lake Austin, one hard-talk room a month.

142 members · 2 meets a month Open →
Your city
Somewhere else Forming

Chapters start when enough fathers in one city ask for one. Apply and tell us where you'd meet.

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Membership is by invitation, and small on purpose

We cap every city at 150 so the room stays a room. Tell us about your company and your kids — and the city you'd meet in. We answer within a week.

How it works
  1. 01Read what we ask of every member.
  2. 02Answer a short application. About four minutes.
  3. 03Hear back within a week, either way.
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