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we build communities,
connect people , grow strong
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globally

Local.Foundation strives to ignite a collaborative mindset and attitude by fighting loneliness and building connections, providing tools and programs, sharing knowledge, and creating pathways that map our ecosystem, in order to drive tangible data-driven impact within the community and inspire founder mentality to the current and future collective individuals that want to change.

OUR.MISSION

At local.foundation, our mission is to nourish emerging
communities by providing personalised advice and targeted
programs to develop essential business skills.

We are committed to building stronger partnerships by working with local organisations to address their specific needs and ensure each community receives the support it needs.

Our team has decades of experience in grassroots development and building successful incubators and accelerators. We understand the entrepreneurial journey first-hand and are dedicated to connecting minds, fostering innovation, and building a better future for communities worldwide.

Inclusivity is at the heart of our work. We actively promote a diverse and dynamic network of entrepreneurs from all walks of life, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

Our.Values
Build real connections. Fight loneliness. Ignite collaborative mindsets. Drive impact.
We believe in cultivating a growth mindset that encourages an open and exploratory problem-solving approach. This philosophy drives our efforts to provide relevant solutions, offering practical and impactful programs tailored to the unique challenges faced by emerging communities.

OUR.PROJECTS

After years of research with founders, from serial entrepreneurs to early stage first time founders, we saw the same pattern over and over.

Being a founder is often a lonely thing, with no one to turn to to make final decisions and no one that understands the pressure in a founder's immediate and trusted people around them.

The term founder resilience is often used to talk about this and while this term is a good starting point it lacks actual programs that help founders become more resilient. Even worse, often the term founder resilience is used in a negative way along the lines of a lack of founder resilience to address failing founders.

We have worked with a wide range of founders from early stage founders in acceleration via peer groups to exited founders that go through their second or third venture and have compiled a program that focuses on personal development from all our lessons learned and give you the mental models that create resilience.

Even more important, it also goes into the early signs of burnout, the methods for detecting overload and how to deal with that.

To top it off we go into creating high performance teams, go through tools that help with personal, team and company development. We go through our "I-We-Us" concept and explain the "Why-Who-What" way of looking at any problem in a holistic way.

Join us to learn the tricks of the trade that make sure you actually enjoy being a founder without the risk of burnout, loneliness at the top and fear of failure.

Meet.The.Team
We’re a diverse bunch of punks and misfits with one thing in common: we’re on a mission to help fight loneliness and connect people locally and globally.
Penélope Gonçalves
Co-Founder and Unicorn Community Builder
Vanessa Nascimento
Co-Founder, Operations Architect and People Culture
Sérgio Henriques
Co-Founder, Software Engineer and Community Builder
Levin Gschwendtner
Co-Founder, Lead Geek and Software Engineer
Cristina Tulcidas
Co-Founder, PxDesigner and Festival Princess
Lenz Gschwendtner
Co-Founder and Resident Community Builder

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