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Join a trusted group of fellow founders or senior leaders to tackle
your toughest challenges together

Join a trusted group of fellow founders or senior leaders to tackle your toughest challenges together

Join a trusted group of fellow founders or senior leaders to tackle
your toughest challenges together

GET

TOUGH LOVE

WELCOME TO CIRCLES

Circles is our premium offering. Small groups, meeting repeatedly, going deep. Eight people with common ground—similar roles, stages, and challenges—working through real problems together, quarter after quarter. Not lectures. Not panels. Just peer advisory.

Ai Founder Circle

B2B Founder Circle

Product Leaders Circle

B2C Leaders and Founder Circle

What

to expect

What to expect

What

to expect

What

to expect

Meet on a regular basis

Connect with your circle consistently throughout the year for structured sessions that create ongoing momentum and lasting progress on your most important goals.

Bring your scaling challenges

Share the real obstacles you're facing in your business. Every session is dedicated to solving the problems that keep you up at night.

Get Tough Love

Receive honest, direct feedback from peers who care about your success. No sugar-coating—just the insights you need to break through barriers.

Facilitated Sessions

Expert facilitators guide every conversation to ensure everyone gets heard, discussions stay productive, and you leave with actionable next steps.

Confidential space

What's shared in the circle stays in the circle. Build trust knowing your vulnerabilities, strategies, and challenges are protected.

Build Lasting Friendships

Form deep connections with your peers who understand your journey. These relationships often become your most valuable personal and professional network.

Meet on a regular basis

Connect with your circle consistently throughout the year for structured sessions that create ongoing momentum and lasting progress on your most important goals.

Bring your scaling challenges

Share the real obstacles you're facing in your business. Every session is dedicated to solving the problems that keep you up at night.

Get Tough Love

Receive honest, direct feedback from peers who care about your success. No sugar-coating—just the insights you need to break through barriers.

Facilitated Sessions

Expert facilitators guide every conversation to ensure everyone gets heard, discussions stay productive, and you leave with actionable next steps.

Confidential space

What's shared in the circle stays in the circle. Build trust knowing your vulnerabilities, strategies, and challenges are protected.

Build Lasting Friendships

Form deep connections with your peers who understand your journey. These relationships often become your most valuable personal and professional network.

upcoming

circles

upcoming circles

Upcoming

Circles

upcoming

circles

👉 Circles for founders/CEO
All our circles are hosted in Amsterdam

B2C - EARLY

Navigate consumer product challenges with fellow founders—from validating product-market fit to user acquisition and monetisation. Connect with peers proving concepts in competitive markets.

Book Intro Call

B2C - GROWTH

Scale your consumer company alongside founders mastering acquisition, reducing churn, and optimising LTV. Share strategies for international expansion and sustainable growth.

Book Intro Call

mARKETPLACE - EARLY

Solve marketplace challenges with founders who understand two-sided platforms. Address cold-start, supply/demand balance, unit economics, and building trust and liquidity.

Book Intro Call

B2B - EARLY

Build your B2B foundation with founders navigating product-market fit, developing sales processes, establishing pricing strategies, and tackling initial fundraising.

Build your B2B foundation together with other founders navigating product-market fit, developing sales processes, establishing pricing strategies, and tackling initial fundraising.

Book Intro Call

B2B - GROWTH

Scale your B2B organisation with founders tackling sales growth, enterprise motion, and professionalisation. Build leadership teams at 50-250 employees.

Book Intro Call

HEALTHCARE - EARLY

Navigate healthcare's unique landscape with HealthTech and MedTech founders tackling regulatory navigation, long sales cycles, clinical validation, and building healthcare partnerships.

Navigate healthcare's unique landscape with HealthTech and MedTech founders tackling regulatory issues, long sales cycles, and building healthcare partnerships.

Book Intro Call

agrifood - early

Transform agriculture and food systems with founders facing supply chain complexity and farmer adoption. Secure pilot customers and access niche funding.

Book Intro Call

👉 Circles for leaders
Empower your leadership with the right support to grow

👉 Circles for leaders
Empower your leadership with the right
support to grow

Product - Growth

Navigate product leadership with fellow CPOs and Head of Product. Prioritise roadmaps, scale teams, manage stakeholders, and balance technical debt.

Book Intro Call

Operations - growth

Scale operations with fellow COOs and Head of Operations. Tackle AI implementation, process design, systems integration, and cross-functional coordination.

Book Intro Call

gtm/commercial - growth

Drive revenue growth with commercial leaders in B2B, B2C and marketplace. Scale efficiently, optimise CAC, develop channels and strategies, and build high-performing teams.

Book Intro Call

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PROPOSE A CIRCLE

Join

a circle

Join

a circle

Join

a circle

🚀 Upgrade to Circles

Circles can be bought as an add-on to your Connect Membership. For Connect Plus, circles are already included.

€1.000/Circle

Billed yearly

Get Started

Includes:

4 sessions per year in a confidential, high-trust environment

A fun kick-off activity and dinner to build genuine connections

Our proven Rise methodology of peer-to-peer learning and tough love feedback

Your turn in the spotlight- Bring one pressing challenge per year to the group and gets actionable feedback

Expert facilitation to keep sessions focused and valuable

🚀
Upgrade to Circles

Circles can be bought as an add-on to your Connect Membership. For Connect Plus, circles are already included.

€1.000/Circle

Billed yearly

Get Started

Includes:

4 sessions per year in a confidential, high-trust environment

A fun kick-off activity and dinner to build genuine connections

Our proven Rise methodology of peer-to-peer learning and tough love feedback

Your turn in the spotlight- Bring one pressing challenge per year to the group and gets actionable feedback

Expert facilitation to keep sessions focused and valuable

🚀 Upgrade to Circles

Circles can be bought as an add-on to your Connect Membership. For Connect Plus, circles are already included.

€1.000/Circle

Billed yearly

Get Started

Includes:

4 sessions per year in a confidential, high-trust environment

A fun kick-off activity and dinner to build genuine connections

Our proven Rise methodology of peer-to-peer learning and tough love feedback

Your turn in the spotlight- Bring one pressing challenge per year to the group and gets actionable feedback

Expert facilitation to keep sessions focused and valuable

🚀 Upgrade to Circles

Circles can be bought as an add-on to your Connect Membership. For Connect Plus, circles are already included.

€1.000/Circle

Billed yearly

Get Started

Includes:

4 sessions per year in a confidential, high-trust environment

A fun kick-off activity and dinner to build genuine connections

Our proven Rise methodology of peer-to-peer learning and tough love feedback

Your turn in the spotlight- Bring one pressing challenge per year to the group and gets actionable feedback

Expert facilitation to keep sessions focused and valuable

Join a Circle

Frequently Asked Question

Frequent
Asked
Question

Frequently Asked Question

Frequent
Asked Question

Do I need to be a Connect member to join Circles?

Yes. Circles are built on top of Connect membership—you need baseline access to the Techleap Community, platform, and events. Circles deepen relationships within the existing community rather than replacing it. If you're not a Connect member yet sign up via the Connect page or reach out to nadia@techleap.nl for more information.