The people you can call at eleven at night.
Building in Africa is lonely in a specific way — the person who has already solved your exact problem exists, but you have never met them. The community exists to shorten that distance to one message.
Six channels that earn their keep.
No broadcast channel, no motivational posting. Every channel exists because founders kept asking the same question in DMs.
#intros
New members say who they are and what they need. The highest-signal channel we have.
#fundraising
Live term sheets, investor feedback and who is actually writing cheques this quarter.
#hiring
Roles and referrals across the whole portfolio. Most portfolio hires start here.
#build
Stack questions, code review, and the agent tooling the 7Square bench uses daily.
#procurement
How to actually sell to a ministry, a bank or a hospital network, country by country.
#wins
Contracts signed, rounds closed, products shipped. Mandatory celebrating.
Things that happen whether or not anyone organises them.
A community with no calendar is a group chat that goes quiet in March. These are fixed.
Founder office hours
Ninety minutes with a 7Square operator. Bring the thing that is stuck.
The Deal Drop
Five to seven companies to the investor list, with founder contacts attached.
City chapter night
A room in each active city — mixer, pitch night or masterclass.
Alumni dinner
Everyone who has been through a cohort, in one room, no agenda.
Turn up once.
Come to any 7Square event in any city — a pitch night, a mixer, a masterclass — and your invitation arrives the following week. Founders in a cohort are added on day one. It stays with you permanently, cohort or no cohort.
Find an event→Or start one where you are.
If your city is not on our list and you already know the founders in it, host the chapter. We supply the format, the production budget, the investor list and the brand. You supply the room and the people.
Propose a chapter→One room, twelve cities.
The fastest way in is to turn up to something. The second fastest is to apply to a cohort.