Needs & Offers and Verified Partnerships
Likes and followers are a soft signal — real B2B relationships between startups are a much harder one to fake. Partnerships is Snikus's way of surfacing those relationships directly on a startup's page.
Needs & Offers
From Edit Startup, you can set two short lines: Looking for (what your startup needs — a specific kind of customer, a technical integration, early feedback, etc.) and Offering (what your startup can genuinely give another startup — a tool, a service, an audience). Both are optional, plain-text, and shown as compact pills right at the top of your startup's Overview tab, next to the stage badge — not buried further down the page.
Once set, your startup becomes discoverable through Explore's dedicated "Looking for partners" filter — a separate toggle from the category chips, since it's a different kind of filter (on/off, not a category choice).
Proposing a partnership
Found a startup that's a genuine fit — maybe their "Offering" matches what you're "Looking for," or vice versa? Open their startup page and use Propose Partnership. This sends a request to that startup's owner.
Confirming a partnership
If you're on the receiving end of a proposal, you'll see a notification and a pending request on your own startup page. Confirming it turns the connection into a Verified Partnership — shown on both startups' pages as a real, visible signal that the two are genuinely working together. Declining simply removes the request; nothing is shown publicly unless both sides confirm.
Why this matters
A Verified Partnership isn't just a badge — it's proof, especially useful to investors browsing a startup's page, that this company has real traction beyond social metrics: another real company is actually relying on or working with them.
Frequently asked
Can I propose a partnership to more than one startup?
Yes — there's no limit on how many partnerships a startup can have, as long as each one is proposed and separately confirmed.
Does a pending (unconfirmed) request show publicly?
No — only confirmed partnerships appear on either startup's page. A pending request is visible only to the two owners involved.
Can I remove a confirmed partnership later?
Reach out to the other founder or to Snikus support if a partnership needs to be corrected or removed — it's not currently a self-serve action from the page itself.