The Startup Council
Empowers Founders.
Supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Startup Council is a volunteer community service group dedicated to accelerating the success of early stage entrepreneurs and investors worldwide.
Our mission is to increase access to relationships, expertise, and capital for innovative entrepreneurs, especially first-time, minority, and under-represented founders.
Services for Startup Companies
We help startups find the resources and capital to succeed.
Attract investors by listing in the National Startups Directory
Find the “right” investors faster using the Startup Investors Directory
Publish your company’s announcements in the Startup Council News
Showcase your startup at educational, networking, and investor events on StartupEvents.org
Startups can access Member Benefits that can help grow your company - including discounts on valuable services - attorneys, accountants, credit cards, insurance, HR, and more
Services for Startup Investors
We help angel investors and VCs find better deals.
Investors, incubators, and accelerators publish your criteria, investment thesis, and portfolio interests at StartupInvestorsDirectory.com to attract deal flow from qualified startups worldwide
Publish your latest deals, fund and cohort announcements, and exits in the Startup Council News
Subscribe to our free newsletters for industry updates and valuable deal news.
Participate in the many events we host and publish at StartupEvents.org to meet promising new founders and companies
Services for Corporate Partners
We connect community and corporate partners with startups.
Law Firms, Software Shops, Accountants, Design Agencies, Real Estate Pros, Marketing Experts, Consultants, Universities, non-profit Services and more all attract more business
Introduce and explain the value of your services to highly targeted audiences across our websites and in the Startup Council News
Participate in the many events we host and publish at StartupEvents.org to meet promising new founders and companies
Promote special deals or your content to attract new client business from startups and investors
How We Help Startup Founders
✓ Education for 1st Time & Underrepresented Founders
✓ Networking, Events, Community and Ecosystem Building
✓ Investor Resources - Transparent and Equal Access to Angel & Venture Investors
✓ Publicity for Seed Stage Startup Achievements & Founders
Startup Council Member News
Publicizing the achievements of startup founders.
Free newsletter updates from innovative startups worldwide. Featuring the latest launches, investment news, acquisitions/exits, pitch competition winners, hires, job openings, thought leader articles, special offers for entrepreneurs, and more!
Free Startup Fundraising Office Hours
Get your Startup Questions Answered - FREE!
Our monthly free #livestream brings Stanford, Silicon Valley quality venture advice to you - anywhere in the world. Watch via LinkedIn Live, Facebook, or our popular YouTube channel.
Startup Council CEO Scott Fox answers founder questions LIVE. These fun, interactive AMA Q&A sessions focus especially on fundraising strategy for pre-seed and seed stage startups seeking capital from angel investors and VC firms.
MasterMinds Startup Accelerator Workshops
Since 2017, the Startup Council has been hosting Startup Accelerator Workshops designed to help founders. Instead of panel discussions or speeches, these are interactive group workshops where founders bring the questions and their investor pitches to practice.
Attendees include founders, startup team members, angel and VC investors, service providers, and startup veterans - all working together to build community and accelerate your startup’s growth.
Learn More about MasterMinds Startup Accelerator Workshops
Startup Investors Directory
Find the RIGHT investors using this specialized, low cost database of early stage startup investors. Designed specifically to help first-time founders research and identify angel investors, venture capital firms, banks, private equity groups, and lenders who are ALREADY interested in startups like yours.
National Startups Directory
We created the National Startups Directory to offer a low cost way for startups worldwide to promote themselves to US venture investors. Get a low cost listing for your venture to share your vision, team, deck, traction, and fundraising deal with our audience of professional startup investors.
Find Startup Events - Calendar & Newsletter of Virtual Events for Startup Founders Everywhere
Events are the best way for entrepreneurs to meet potential investors, team members, and partners. Join our free email list to be alerted about the best VIRTUAL events for founders and friends online.
You don’t have to live in California to attend - these are all ONLINE events for startups!
Hosting a Virtual Event for Startup Founders? Submit your online startup event here. If it meets these criteria, we’ll publicize it to our worldwide entrepreneurs mailing list for you.
We support more than 50,000 local entrepreneurs in groups in 40+ cities around the world. Find a group online today to meet fellow founders, investors, and partners.
Don’t see your city (or country) yet? Start a Meetup in your town and let us know. We’ll be happy to help publicize it and share events to help support your local startup ecosystem!
Meetups Worldwide - F2F Networking in More than 40 Cities and 10 Countries
We can help promote the events in your startup ecosystem to attract more founders, investors, and community involvement.
Publicize your virtual startup events to founders and investors worldwide for online attendance, plus we can publish event announcements and details to our dozens of entrepreneur Meetup groups around the world if you want to target a location.
Startup Events Publicity
Startup Jobs
The Startup Council can help you find a job, or help grow your startup company by helping you find qualified new talent to hire. Visit our Startup Jobs board to see the latest job openings, or post your own.
Specialties include technical talent for high growth, venture-backed software, life sciences, and hardware companies.
3 Best-selling Entrepreneurship Books
The Startup Council’s CEO, Scott Fox, has written 3 books to help entrepreneurs worldwide develop and implement their own visionary startup businesses.
Translated into many languages (Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Polish, etc.), the books are pioneering guides to developing businesses based on your own interests and strengths in order to make some money and make the world a better place, too.
Available worldwide in bookstores and online at Amazon.com.
Private Startup Founder Coaching
Startup Council CEO, Scott Fox, is a world-recognized serial entrepreneur, 3x best-selling entrepreneurship author, and active angel investor. Founders worldwide turn to him for strategy and fundraising advice.
If you would like Silicon Valley quality, board level advice to discuss your startup’s challenges, Scott offers a limited number of private coaching calls each month. Learn more here.
Sponsors
Thanks to these Sponsors for supporting the work of the Startup Council. Entrepreneurs worldwide appreciate their investment in the future.
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Mission
Mission: The Startup Council supports entrepreneurs worldwide, especially first-time, women, minority, and under-represented founders, including those in under-represented geographies.
We do this by:
increasing transparency in the angel and venture capital startup investing process
increasing access to “insider” expertise and networks
offering free and low cost resources that early stage founders and team can afford
Our goal is to offer free and low cost services and events that make it easier and more equitable for anyone to gain access to Silicon Valley type expertise and connections to build new ventures that make the world and humanity better.
What Startup Council Partners Say
“Scott Fox and the OC Startup Council have been a partner and sponsor of Tech Coast Angels since 2018 and have made a big difference to our local innovation ecosystem. Their connections, events, and publishing in support of TCA activities and local entrepreneurship have become critical to the innovation community which we are growing. Their attention to under-represented founders is helping our ecosystem become more diverse, both in the startups we fund and also by encouraging new venture investors and supporters.”
Tech Coast Angels Orange County
“The OC Startup Council has been instrumental in supporting Orange County’s innovation ecosystem. While OCSC is open to everyone, the organization is especially impactful to first time founders and newer entrants to tech, many of whom come from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. Through its various activities, website, and network of resources, OCSC assists these founders and entrepreneurs with navigating a complex web of people, resources and information, all in an effort to help them build and grow successful new ventures.”
Silicon Valley Bank
OC Startup Council, led by Scott Fox, has been a valuable resource for SBDC and OC's innovation ecosystem, supporting tech and life science startups. Our partnership with OC Startup Council generated new client leads and provided technical assistance, extended client reach to investors. The Mastermind group helped clients grow in a cohort setting, a valuable resource for scaling innovation. OC Startup Council provided resources, training and assistance to our 300 annual SBDC clients in all demographics, greatly appreciated for their expertise and commitment.
SBDC @ UCI Beall Applied Innovation
“The startup expertise that Scott Fox shares with our students and alumni is invaluable. We are committed to accelerating the startup ecosystem and Scott has been a big supporter. We're very appreciative of his dedication to helping early stage founders and increasing diversity in the U-M startup community, by sharing his insights and enthusiasm with our network.”
Program Manager for Alumni Engagement
“The OCSC is a vital component of the startup community in SoCal. Over the past 10 years the SoCal tech scene has evolved from being a small ecosystem to being one of the largest in the world. This is in no small part thanks to the great work of the OC Startup Council, who are a constant support system to the entire community. Keep up the great work. Investors like Expert DOJo appreciate you.”
ExpertDojo
“Scott Fox and the OC Startup Council have been tremendous partners to the Stanford entrepreneurial community in Orange County as we build up our efforts there. Their events attract a great set of people and we look forward to continued partnership as we grow.”
Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs of Southern California
