Sunshine Lake

By invitation · Sunshine Lake

The

Speakeasy.

Where founders with a superhuman psychology are immersed — and the people who have already done it once show up for them.

Where it happens

The future gets built in rooms before it gets built anywhere else.

A cracked few see the shift first. We put them in a room with the people who saw the last one — and then we get out of the way.

The Program

For companies inside the universe.

Admitted founders run a focused immersion with the Sunshine Lake bench — operators, advisors and founders who have built at scale. Every week has a deliverable. Nothing is broadcast.

By admission only
Speakeasy Sessions

For the founders we have not met yet.

A night of intimate talks, live art, a DJ, and more. Where founders dive beneath the surface to learn and network. Apply to attend.

Apply to attend

The Program · Immersion

Momentum, manufactured on purpose.

Technology is a commodity now. Momentum is not. Admitted companies get the network pointed at whatever is currently in their way — and it stays pointed there until it moves.

01

The bench

Operators and advisors who have already solved the thing you are stuck on.

02

A weekly deliverable

Narrative, pricing, hiring, the raise. One at a time, shipped.

03

Warm doors

Customers and downstream funds, introduced by people whose word carries.

04

The room, again

Alumni stay in it. The network compounds behind you.

Speakeasy Sessions · Events

Some nights, the door opens.

Talks that are short and unrecorded. An artist painting through the night. A DJ in the corner and, by midnight, nobody talking about term sheets. Culture is the point, not the garnish.

TalksLive artDJ setsNo slidesNo pitching
San Francisco
YC Demo Day week
The first one. Talks, live art, and the sign in the window.
Athens
Autumn
The first session outside the Bay.
More cities
To be announced
We go where the founders already are.

From the sessions

On the mic
The room fills
Between sets
At the bar
A talk, mid-room
One-on-one
The sign in the window

Beneath the surface.