Forks & Founders is a hospitality platform bringing founders together through intentionally curated dining experiences, thoughtful conversation, and genuine relationships.
They begin over a shared plate. In the pause between courses, when the pitch falls away and the person remains. Atlanta has no shortage of founders — what it has lacked is a room built for them to actually know one another.
Forks & Founders exists to design that room. Not a mixer. Not a panel. A table, set with intention, for people building something real.
We believe hospitality — done properly — is the fastest way to build trust between strangers who have every reason to become allies.
Small, intentionally seated dinners — six to twelve founders, one long table, no agenda but honest conversation.
Editorial films and conversations that document how Atlanta’s builders actually think, work, and relate to one another.
A standing circle of members who keep showing up for one another long after the plates are cleared.
Quiet, honest conversations with the people building Atlanta’s next chapter — filmed the way we host: unhurried, and off the record until it isn’t.
Hospitality isn’t serving dinner.
It’s creating belonging.
It’s designing conversations.
It’s making founders feel seen.
It’s remembering names.
It’s creating rooms people never forget.
Seated across from each other by design, not by accident. The term sheet came six weeks later — the friendship came first.
Different industries, same instinct. Eight months on, they share an office and a cap table.
No deal, no deck — just two people who kept the thread going long after the dinner ended.
I’ve sat at the tables where the real decisions get made, and I’ve sat at the ones designed to look like they might. The difference was never the venue. It was whether anyone in the room actually intended for you to be known.
I built Forks & Founders because Atlanta’s founders deserved better than another networking hour disguised as community. We deserved a table set with the same care we put into everything else we build.
This isn’t an event company. It’s a standing invitation to be known by the people building alongside you.
Founder Tables are intentionally small. Leave your email and we’ll reach out when a seat opens for you.
Founder Tables are intentionally curated. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee an invitation.