One live hour every week with someone who has done it before: a founder, an operator or an investor from outside the community. A new guest each week, from 250+ mentors in 30 countries. More than a quarter are in Silicon Valley.
A whole incubator, built around one person.
Turn what you know into a business. Our AI builds it, mentors guide it live every week, our network shares it.
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Openfor.co is an AI incubator for one person: frontier AI builds your business with you, mentors guide you live every week, and a community keeps you moving.
Building is easy now.
Getting seen, paid and backed is not.
The help that fixes this costs thousands a month, so only 1 to 2% get it. We bring it to everyone, for $99.
Build your offer. Share it. Meet people.
Then repeat, every week.
Two numbers decide it: how much you put out, and how many people you reach. Our AI helps you make more from day one. Our community helps you reach more.
Try it first.
Watch the live sessions free.
About 100 sessions a year with founders, investors and mentors, streamed live. Watch free. Members join in, ask and get feedback.
Live sessions anyone can watch.
Around 100 sessions a year · roughly 50 external and 50 internal · 130+ run since 2022
Latest sessionThe Human Signal: Founder-Led Cross-Border Sales on October 6See the session →- Quantum, AI and the Next Computing Wave: Where Capital Is Moving and How Breakthrough Companies Get FundedSep 29
- Investor Office Hour with Stella Capital : How to Get Your Startup Noticed by Global VCsSep 15
Learn how to make it, or have the AI make it.
28 categories · learn it or let AI make it
From the blog# The Distribution Problem: Building Is Cheap. Getting Seen Is Not.Read the post →- The AI SaaS Partner Model Japan Might Actually NeedMay 11
- YC Summer 2026 Requests for Startups: An independent readingMay 7
- Live sessions
- Library
- Weekly letter
- Your free profile page
- Community access
- Events first
- Early access
- Collab calls beta
- Letter of intent sender soon
- Everything in Free, plus
- Two mentor sessions a week
- Feedback on your work
- Our AI, set up on day one
- Your work shared on our channels
- Contact tracker
- Shoutouts for good work
- The Anthropreneur book, free
We have run these four stages
four hundred times.
Six accelerators, 130+ events and 11,000+ attendances since 2022, in 30 countries.
FounderErdinç Ekinci
Founder & CEO, Openfor.co and Co-Capital
“I don’t give advice. I mentor by building. You bring a problem, I open my AI tools, and we build it together. Nobody leaves empty-handed.”
- Leads Founder Institutein Japan, Korea and Taiwan
- Founded Co-Capitala venture community with 100+ VC firm relationships
- 500+Startups mentoredand 6 accelerators run, start to finish
- 15Years selling across bordersJapan and global markets, still doing it today
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VC firm
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VC firm
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VC firm
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Accelerator
Media
Media
Government
Trade agency, Japan
Development agency
Innovation agency
SME agency, Korea
Startup agency, KoreaNames show where founders we mentored came from or went on to, and organisations we have worked with or been featured by. They are not Openfor.co partners unless stated.
Silicon Valley used to be a place you moved to. Now it is a session you join.
250+ mentors and investors in 30 countries, a quarter in Silicon Valley. Live every week, part of your $99.
Jeffrey Paine
Jack Huang
Lauren Nham
Michael Ho
Fredrik Debong
Walied Albasheer
Alyssa Chen
Niklas Tawast
Cenk Bayrakdar
Jeremy Proctor
Erik Colin
Myrto Lalacos
Colin Magne
Rebecca Chai
Jed Ng
Francisco SoaresTap or hover over a face to see who it is. See every mentor →
Our mentors and supporters are from
Revo Capital
Z Venture Capital
AppWorks
Plug and Play
Incubate Fund
SBI Investment
UB Ventures
Beyond Next Ventures
Alumni Ventures
Ethos Fund
Monozukuri Ventures
Yanmar Ventures
Ant Capital Partners
Geek VenturesGolden Egg Ventures
Stella Capital
SEEDRA Ventures
Treeo VCDreamhub Ventures
500 Global
Headline
WiL
SparkLabs
Golden Gate Ventures
Revo Capital
Z Venture Capital
AppWorks
Plug and Play
Incubate Fund
SBI Investment
UB Ventures
Beyond Next Ventures
Alumni Ventures
Ethos Fund
Monozukuri Ventures
Yanmar Ventures
Ant Capital Partners
Geek VenturesGolden Egg Ventures
Stella Capital
SEEDRA Ventures
Treeo VCDreamhub Ventures
500 Global
Headline
WiL
SparkLabs
Golden Gate VenturesNames identify where people work. They do not indicate a partnership with, or endorsement of, Openfor.co.
Between sessions,
the platform does the building.
Tell it who you are once, and it keeps building with you between sessions.
Live today: your offer, your page, your posts and your first month plan. Anything marked coming soon is not here yet, and is not part of what you pay for today.
Skip the expensive AI plan. Use ours.
Frontier models, mostly Claude Code, trained with what our mentors teach. It runs your whole program with you.
Trained by our mentors
No busy work. Everything is promptable. Our frontier AI, our team and our mentors all work for you, from $99 a month.
- Pick the topic
- Invite a speaker
- Event page
- Send invites
- Follow up after
Every week:
two sessions, one AI build, your yes.
An outside mentor, then our mentors, then AI turns your decision into finished work.
The second session is about your work. Our own mentors look closely at where you are, with your small peer group. The feedback fits your situation.
What you decide in either session becomes finished work in the platform that same week: deck, offer, page, posts, outreach, scripts, across 28 categories. You never start from a blank page.
Read it, change it, approve it. That is your only job here. Approved work goes out. We measure the result against where you started. The next week starts from there.
You post once.
It travels three rings out.
Your page, then our channels (1M+ a year), then partner audiences (100M+).
Everyone gets openfor.co/your-name.
It is the center of the three rings. The two plans differ in who writes it and how far we share it.
- Your own link, live in minutes
- Atlas listing for the areas you added to
- Yours to keep either way
- An interview, written up by our editors
- Shared on our channels when the work fits
- Premium placement above free listings
- Ecosystem at a Glance and location pages
- Passed to partners when the work fits
Need something?
Ask the whole community.
Post what you need and what you give back. Members answer, share and promote each other.
Examples Calls like these go up inside the community. Names and numbers here are made up to show the shape.
Looking for an expert to guest-write one practical piece
Looking for a guest with a strong building-in-public story
Looking for a workshop leader for a monthly AI meetup
Looking for members with a finished result to tell together
In beta, open to our community. Join free to see every call and reply.
Examples of calls from the beta.
Two open maps
of who can help.
One maps investors, programs and media. One maps our own network. Both are free.
JPJapan
The open database of everyone who supports builders in Japan.
Tap a country. It also changes on its own.
Become the center of the ecosystem.
Everyone in our network, and what they are open to.
Members tell you what changed for them.
Nine members, nine voices. Tap anyone to hear them.
Most people should not raise money anyway. What makes this valuable is that it is bootstrap-friendly. It gives you the tools, support and structure to make progress without outside capital, and it is full of people who did exactly that.
In a very short time I reframed my story and learned to tell it. It got me visible on LinkedIn and writing every week. The content is the product.
Early on, the hard part is credibility before people know you. Being in a verified community does more than grow my network. It makes me easier to trust.
It helps founders become more productive and direction-focused instead of following trends. Positioning, networking, monetization and modern marketing, with execution and clarity.
Achieving the first wave of traction is a game changer. With Openfor.co I grasped the significance of harnessing partnerships.
As a graduate of the first cohort: whether you are just starting out or experienced, the team teaches how to make good collaborations.
Insights, guidance and a dedicated team guided us to an ideal collaboration for validation and traction. Highly recommended.
Joining Openfor.co made me realize that partnerships are beneficial for companies of every size. Their approach has allowed us to delve into the intricacies of partnership dynamics.
After collaborating with Openfor.co, I got to know how to find, ask, offer, initiate, and maintain meaningful collaborations with other people and organizations. Now I am partnering and lining up.
Your story could be next.
From $99 a month on the yearly plan. We never take a share of your business.
Each member's own words, shared with permission. The voices are AI readings, not the members themselves. Not typical results, and not a promise you will get the same.
All of that,
from $99 a month.
An agency, a coach, operations help and tools would cost about US$10,000 a month. Here it is $99.
- Our AI, set up for you on day one
- Two live mentor sessions a week
- Your work shared on our channels
- Every tool and perk, no extras to buy
“Some people will think the price is a joke. That is on purpose.” Erdinç Ekinci, founder
Stay longer, get more: longer plans pay less per month and get priority mentor slots, more sharing and earlier perks. Private track by invitation: book a call →
The support the top 1% got,
now for the other 99%.
A mission anyone can put their name on. Free, in one minute.
For every free member who believes founders deserve a fair shot.
- Your own supporter number
- A card made for you to share
- Your name on the wall
Support runs both ways: we feature the people who stand behind it.
1. Your name and photo · 2. Preview your card · 3. Publish it with a free signup, and it goes on the wall with your number.
For anyone who pre-orders Anthropreneur, the book of this business, or has ever paid for membership.

- Your copy of Anthropreneur, with your name printed in it (first 1,000 seats)
- Contribute two or three lines on fear, rejection, family, AI, whatever you know, and get featured
- Seat Nº of 1,000, a dark card and a level bar that grows
Why a book? Building alone is not only a business problem. Fear, confidence, rejection, family and health decide more than any tactic. Anthropreneur is written with 1,000 people on exactly that. Contribution is open only to people who pre-order or join a program, and every contributor gets a fair chance to be featured.
Support runs both ways: members get the book free and can contribute too.
Want mentors and our AI behind you every month? That is membership.
For members who stay a year or more, and for companies and bigger names.
- A black and gold card with your photo
- A Year One badge and a verified seal
- It cannot be bought with a single month. That is what makes it rare.
Support runs both ways: the whole incubator works for you, every week.
On the yearly plan. $149 month to month.
Nothing is ever taken away. Anyone who has ever paid keeps their spot and their number for good. Stop paying and you keep your card and your wall listing at book level.
Your preview
Welcome to the wall.
This is your card. Your name goes up on the public wall once we check it.
Caption, ready to post
The wall
Founders, operators and supporters who put their name on it. Newest first.
What you get back
- We feature supporters on our pages and social channels.
- You can contribute to the book and be credited.
- Mentors and a community that has your back.
- Every member is automatically a 10% referral partner.
Put your name on it.
Join free and your name, your photo and your number go up as a supporter.
The 99% Wall is run by Openfor.co.
If it grows into a company, the next step is already here.
Any accelerator you choose, and Co-Capital's investors if it grows big enough. Most members never need either.
Start in the community
Watch the live sessions free, plus a community that helps each other.
Surrounded by serious help
Mentors, peers, AI and our channels, every week.
Pick the one that fits
Founder Institute, which we lead in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, or any other.
Meet a whole network
Co-Capital, our investor network, part of the Decile Group.
Accelerators and Co-Capital are separate organisations with their own criteria. Names are shown for reference and do not mean a partnership. We do not promise admission or funding. This is not investment advice.
Start this week.
Your first session
is live.
AI drafts your work. Mentors from Silicon Valley and 29 other countries give you feedback. We share it with our network. One membership, built around one person, open to anyone in the world. Help worth thousands a month, from $99.
From $99 a month on the yearly plan, billed once a year. Joining takes about two minutes. We never take a share of your business.
Still deciding? Everything else is here.
What is this, in one sentence?
An incubator built around you. AI drafts your work, mentors who built and funded companies give feedback in live sessions, and we share the result with our network. Join from anywhere.
When does it start? Do I wait for a group?
Any day. There is no fixed start date and no waiting list, so nobody falls behind. Your first mentor session is in the week you join.
Do I need a company? I freelance, consult or create.
No. Most members are freelancers, consultants and creators without a company. A skill and something to sell is enough. We back you, not the idea, so it works even if your project changes.
Are the mentors really based in Silicon Valley?
Yes. More than a quarter of the mentors in our programmes are based in Silicon Valley. Most of the rest built a company there, worked there, or invest with people who do. That access always existed. You just could not reach it unless you moved there.
I already run a business with real revenue. Is this too basic?
No. Some members make millions, some start with a skill. Sessions are built around what you bring. Mentor feedback, the work the platform makes and sharing on our channels stay the same for everyone.
What is included in the membership?
Everything, on every plan: the four-stage programme, the AI platform, two live mentor sessions a week, the community, tools and perks, your editor-written page, and sharing on our channels. No tiers and no extras to buy. Longer plans pay less per month and add priority mentor slots, more sharing and earlier perks.
How much time does it take, and what do I actually do?
Plan for three to five hours a week, one or two of them live. Every step ends in something real: a page, an offer, a post, a conversation. AI prepares the rest, so you spend your time deciding and sending.
What does the AI do, and which models?
AI writes the first draft of your offer, page, deck and posts. Mentors and peers give feedback in live sessions, and nothing goes out without your approval. It runs on frontier models, mostly Claude Code, trained with what our mentors teach, so you need no AI subscription of your own. It costs less than a Claude Max plan and is included in membership.
Will you promote my work or introduce me to investors?
We do not make direct introductions. We share good member work on our channels and with partners, so the right people find you. We cannot promise views, leads or customers, and we do not raise money for you.
What if I want to raise money later?
Founder Institute, the accelerator we lead in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and Co-Capital's investor network are there if you want them. You can also apply to any other accelerator. They are separate programmes. They choose who joins and make their own decisions.
Do you take a share of my business? Who owns what I make?
We never take a share of your business. The membership fee is the only thing we take. Everything you make is yours: drafts, pages, offers and content. You keep it all if you leave. We only ask permission to feature your work on our channels.
What happens to my data?
Your public page shows only what you choose to publish. We do not sell member data. You can ask us to delete your account information.
What language and time zone is it in?
English. Live sessions are at times that work for Asia and Europe. Everything is recorded in case you cannot join.
What is the 99% Wall, and what is the book?
The 99% Wall is the public list of people who stand behind founders. Join free and your card goes up: your name, your photo if you want, your number. Anthropreneur is the book of this business, written with 1,000 people on the human side of building alone. Pre-order it for $30 to become a Founding Member: your name is printed in it, and you can contribute a few lines and be featured. Members get the book free. A year of membership makes you a Founding Patron.
How much does it cost?
From $99 a month on the yearly plan, billed $1,188 once a year. Six months is $117 a month, three months $133, and month to month $149. Longer plans pay less and get priority mentor slots, more sharing and earlier perks, because the support compounds the longer you stay. You keep your rate for the term.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Yearly, six-month and three-month plans are paid upfront, run to the end of their term and do not renew automatically. Month to month can stop any month, with no fee. You keep everything you built either way.




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