Likes and followers are a nice signal, but investors want to see something harder to fake: real companies actually using each other's products. That's what Partnerships is for.
Needs & Offers
Every founder can now set a short "Looking for" and "Offering" line on their startup — visible right at the top of the page, and filterable from Explore, so founders who genuinely complement each other can actually find one another instead of scrolling the whole directory hoping to spot a fit.
Proposing a partnership
Found a fit? Propose a partnership directly from their startup page. Once they confirm, it shows on both startups' pages as a verified connection — a real, visible signal to anyone browsing (including investors) that two startups are genuinely working together, not just following each other.
This is the first piece of a bigger idea: a network where one startup's traction can genuinely lift another's. More on that soon.