The city is our campus.
Cohort is a home in New York for founders, builders, artists, researchers and the people who cheer them on.
Our mission
To build a wide and deep community around a culture of exchanging ideas and building on them.
Our vision
In ten years, New York produces new ideas only it could produce: deeper companies and deeper tech, art shaped by technology and science, better stories. Building and solving become the city's default culture.
Why it matters
Cities get the ideas their social fabric allows.
New York has the best raw material in the world and a social layer built for deals. We're building the one built for ideas.
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Big ideas need depth, and depth needs rhythm.
The most important ideas usually sound wrong at first. People only say them to people they trust, and trust comes from seeing the same people again and again.
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Campuses and churches know how to build that.
A weekly rhythm, shared rituals and small groups inside a larger tribe. Outside them, almost nothing does. We're building a congregation organized around ideas.
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Range is the fuel.
Ideas cross fields here that never meet elsewhere, so founders, artists and researchers find cofounders, first users and audiences among people who already know their work.
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Enough of it tips the culture.
As more of what gets built in New York starts in rooms like these, building and solving stop being a niche and become how the city works.
How we got started
A room of regulars beats a room of strangers.
New York has plenty of mixers and panels. What it doesn't have is many places where you see the same people every week. So we started one.
We work side by side, talk about ideas that matter, and wander the city together, until acquaintances become friends and friends start building things together.
How it works
Show up. That's the only requirement.
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Hosted by people like you
Volunteers from the community host every event. Some nights we team up with partners, always in our format: conversation first.
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All over the city
No clubhouse. We meet wherever the city lets us: hotels, libraries, cafés, coworking floors and parks.
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Always free
RSVP on Luma and come. If you're working on something and happy to be in the room, you belong here.
The people behind Cohort