More Flows.
More People.
More Ways In.

In front of AI, it is not a handful of companies that get to participate. It is us — all of us humans — and we intend to flourish with it. — Mr. 6, founder

The problem is distribution, not supply

There has never been more capital looking for a home, more people capable of building something, or more tools that turn one person into a team. And yet the same small set of places, schools and networks still absorb most of it.

That is not a shortage. It is a routing failure. A founder in one city cannot see the angel two time zones away who would happily write the cheque. A fund with a mandate for a region has no trusted way in. An operator who spent twenty years in an industry has nobody asking them for the one thing they actually know.

Every one of those is a gap with a specific human on either side of it. The Foundation exists to close them, one introduction at a time, and then to publish what worked so it can happen again without us.

What we mean by "multi-" and "inter-"

The Foundation's programme — and its showcase, MISS — is built around crossing lines that usually stay uncrossed:

AI-transformed startups — and the businesses that came before them

We are unapologetically pro-AI. A large share of the companies we showcase are AI-native: they could not have existed five years ago, they were built by small teams, and they compete on judgement rather than headcount.

But a foundation that only looks at AI-native startups would be making the same mistake it set out to fix. The bakery, the parts supplier, the clinic, the freight broker, the family firm in its second generation — these are where most people work and most value sits, and their transformation is the larger story.

So we hold both. AI-native founders get access to markets and operators who understand real industries. Traditional businesses get access to founders who can show them what to change first. Neither group is the audience for the other; they are each other's opportunity.

What the Foundation is not

• Not a fund. We do not invest, and we take no equity, carry or success fee.
• Not a broker. We make introductions, not transactions. What happens after the intro is between the parties and their advisers.
• Not a paywall. Joining the network, applying to the showcase and being introduced are free.
• Not a ranking. The showcase is a curated set of companies worth meeting, not a league table.

How we measure ourselves

Not by attendance, followers, or capital "represented" in a room. By four numbers, published as they happen: people in the network, startups in the showcase, home markets covered, and industries covered. Small and true, growing in public.

Who started it

The Foundation was founded by Mr. 6, a technology writer and blogger who has spent two decades explaining startups, venture capital and technology to a general audience — and watching, from that vantage point, how much depends on who happens to know whom.