Developers & founders
You build. You are raising, hiring into a team, or open to the right room.
5,000 left of 5,000
Claim a seat by emailOpens your mail app with the questions pre-filled. No form, no account, no card.
10,000 of 10,000 founding seats left
Stop networking.
Start getting introduced.
Your next cofounder, investor, employer or acquirer should not depend on who you happened to sit next to. Tell Yente who you are and what you need. She gathers the missing context, waits for a credible fit, and makes the introduction only after both sides have seen it.
- No cold outreach
- No forced matches
- Never paid for an introduction
A quieter kind of network
No feed to perform for.
No directory to disappear inside.
Yente starts with evidence, not reach. A résumé, portfolio or professional profile tells her what you have done. A short email exchange tells her what you want now.
Then you go back to work. She writes again only when something real clears the rules on both sides.
Two cohorts
Ten thousand founding seats. Then the door closes.
Founding membership is free for life — five thousand builders, five thousand backers. No card, ever. The cap is not a growth tactic: a matchmaker who cannot keep the whole network in her head is a mailing list.
Investors, employers & acquirers
You deploy capital, hire, or acquire. You want fit, not volume.
5,000 left of 5,000
Claim a seat by emailOpens your mail app with the questions pre-filled. No form, no account, no card.
How it works
One thoughtful thread at a time.
The language is human. The rules are not negotiable.
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Write to her
Your email is the signup. It is also the first evidence — Yente reads what you actually said, not what a form let you say.
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Send the evidence
A résumé, portfolio or profile. She reads it, extracts what matters, and tells you what she understood so you can correct her before anyone sees it.
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Wait for real fit
You are in the network. Yente will not manufacture a weak match to keep a queue moving. Silence means nothing has cleared the bar yet.
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Choose the introduction
Each side gets a private brief with the reason and the evidence. Reply PASS and it ends quietly. Two yeses and she opens one thread, then leaves.
The part nobody else will promise
Never more than five live introductions.
You hold at most two to five open proposals at any moment. A new one appears only when an old one resolves — a pass, a meeting, a decline, or a timeout.
This is the quality mechanism and the volume control at once. Nobody sends an investor forty decks and calls it a service. And a system that cannot flood you is worth more than one that merely promises not to.
An empty slot beats a weak fill. Under a cap of five, every introduction is expensive — so Yente leaves the slot open rather than spend it on a maybe.
Context before contact
A reason to talk — not a résumé dump.
A brief tells you enough to decide: who the person is, what they need, and why Yente thinks the conversation may work. Your documents stay with her, and your email address is never published — what appears on a card or in a brief is only what you volunteered onto your own record.
Every claim in it is traceable. Ask why you were matched and you get the actual sentence, from the actual document, that caused it.
Hi Alice,
Someone worth considering: a technical founder building infrastructure for regulated teams.
Why now. They are opening a seed round and want an investor who understands long enterprise sales cycles.
Why you. Your stated thesis, stage and operating background all clear the policy.
Evidence. “We sell to banks; the shortest deal we have closed took seven months.” — their intake, 14 Aug.
Reply PASS if this is not useful. No explanation needed. Otherwise I will introduce you, if they agree too.
— Yente
Before anyone meets
The introduction belongs to both people.
Evidence stays private
Your résumé helps Yente understand you. It is never forwarded to a proposed match.
A pass is enough
Either person can pass privately, or stop entirely. No explanation is required, and the other side is never told who declined.
No fee, ever
Not on the introduction, not on the round, not on the offer. Yente has no stake in whether you take the meeting — which is the only reason the email is worth opening.
Deletion is real
Ask to be erased and you are erased, not flagged. Say stop and she stops.
The practical questions
Before you claim it.
Is founding membership really free?
Yes, and free for life — the first 5,000 builders and the first 5,000 backers. No card is required. After that it is pay-what-you-want, and what you pay never affects who you are matched with. That is enforced by a rule in the code, not a promise on a page.
Does joining guarantee an introduction?
No. Yente would rather wait than manufacture a weak fit. An introduction happens only when both profiles clear the policy and neither person passes. Some people will wait a long time.
Do I have to send my whole résumé?
No. Send whatever best establishes your background — résumé, portfolio, profile, or a few honest paragraphs. She reads it first and asks only for what is missing.
Will Yente join the meeting?
No. She opens one shared thread, suggests you trade calendars, and leaves. The conversation is yours.
What does she do with my data?
Extraction runs on our own hardware, not a third-party inference provider — an unannounced raise or a quiet job search should not be somebody else's training data. Everything she believes about you traces back to a sentence you wrote.
One email can change your trajectory
Make yourself introducible.
10,000 founding seats remain. Give Yente enough truth to recognise the conversation worth having.
Or simply write to [email protected] and say what you need.