The Charter
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A long dinner table of founders mid-conversation under warm light.

Some of the most interesting companies in the country are run by people who eat dinner together once a month.

That’s The Charter, a private club for founders and investors in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Singapore. Entry is by nomination. That’s most of why the room works.

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300+ Members
100+ Rooms since 2024
50,000+ On the waitlist

MUMBAI · BENGALURU · DELHI · SINGAPORE

An average weekend

The investor who never replied to you had dinner with us on Friday.

Members at a bar table late in the evening.

Friday

It was an ordinary dinner, fourteen people at one table, and he stayed till midnight, because someone sitting across from him runs a company he’s been trying to get into for a year. The leverage points both ways.

A daytime working session in a bright room.

Saturday

Someone brought a term sheet to the working session that they didn’t fully understand, and by the second coffee three people who had signed worse ones were marking it up in the margins.

Who’s in the room

Founders who have already built the thing.

Companies with revenue, teams, names you’d recognise from your own order history. And the investors who backed them, often before anyone else would.

On a good Friday you’re sitting between a founder who took her company public and the partner who wrote her first cheque, and they’re arguing about something neither of them will remember by dessert. That’s the room working.

A room for whatever you’re solving

A founder’s year isn’t one problem, so membership isn’t one format.

Hover any room to read it.

Members celebrating together at a late-night gathering.

My Series A had been stuck at sixty percent for two months, and I’d stopped telling people. At the gala night in March I was seated next to a partner from a fund I had never even pitched. We spent an hour on everything except my company, and then he asked what I was building. The round closed five weeks later. He led it.

Fundraising doesn’t start when you make the deck. It starts months before that, when you’re in the right room with the right people.

— [Name], founder, [company]

How you get in

Two ways in. Either way, there’s an interview.

  1. Two ways

    A member puts your name forward, or we’ve been watching what you’re building and we come to you.

  2. The interview

    One conversation, honest in both directions: what you’d bring to the room, and what the room can do for you.

  3. If it fits

    You’re welcomed in. Your first night as a member is a dinner. That’s how everyone starts.

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Six minutes, and a member reads it personally.

What you’re agreeing to

Eight short articles on how members treat one another, signed before your first dinner.

Article I

On the keeping of confidence

We hold what is said within The Charter in confidence, absolutely.

Article II

On the standard of work

We measure ourselves by the work, not by the appearance of the work.

Article III

On the giving of time

We give time to each other without ledger.

Article IV

On welcome and sponsorship

We sponsor into The Charter only those we would sit beside ourselves.

Article V

On disagreement

We disagree with one another directly and privately.

Article VI

On the long view

We build things meant to outlast us.

Article VII

On presence

We arrive for the work, not for the show.

Article VIII

On departure

We arrive with grace and we depart with grace.

Members, in their own words

What the room turns into, told by the people who were in it.

In the press

You don’t have to take our word for it.

Questions people ask us

The things people ask before they ask for a seat.

Tap any question to open it.

What is The Charter?

The Charter is a private members club for startup founders and investors, with rooms in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Singapore. It began as Bombay Founders’ Club in 2024 and now counts 300+ members, with a waitlist of more than 50,000.

How do you become a member of The Charter?

By referral from a current member, by applying directly, or occasionally because we reach out to you. Every route ends in an interview, and your first night as a member is a dinner.

Does The Charter take equity or fees for introductions?

No. Nothing between members is brokered and nothing is billed. You meet people naturally in the rooms, and the camaraderie does the rest. Members extend their networks for each other because they want to, which is the only version of this that actually works.

I’m early. Is it too early?

For The Charter, possibly. But that’s exactly who Unchartered is for: founders who are just starting out, with an idea and the appetite to build it. It’s a community in its own right, with rooms built for that stage.

A dining room set for the evening before guests arrive.

There’s a Charter room happening somewhere this week.

Most weeks there are two or three, across four cities. The dates and venues live on the members’ calendar, and nowhere else.

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