411 Founders Club

cause AI can't replace community

An offline first startup community in Pune because your next co-founder, investor, collaborator, or hire was never going to be served to you by an algorithm.
cool the globe
chitale group
KINETIC EV
ATENX
Altrove
Ugaao
AmukTamuk
Bhadipa

Pune is not a city short on ambition or talent. Serious companies are being built here across every industry. The city has never lacked the people. It has lacked the room that increases the surface area of luck for every founder in it.

Trusted by Pune's
most exciting companies

Trust before scale. The community stays small on purpose because a network of a thousand people you barely know is worth less than a room of thirty you actually trust.

Monthly Dinner Events
Thirty to fifty founders, no agenda. No panels, no sales pitches. Just people who are building things, eating good food, and talking honestly. We do this every month and we intend to keep doing it for a long time.
Digital Forum
WhatsApp groups die because noise kills signal. We built our community on Circle, a private forum where conversations have context, introductions stick, and you can actually find what someone said three weeks ago.
Curated, Not Ticketed
Every application is read by us personally. Not because we enjoy the process, but because the quality of a room is entirely determined by who is in it. You can't buy a seat at the table, you have to earn it.
Serious Founders
411 is not for idea-stage founders or people still deciding whether to start. It is for founders with skin in the game, across manufacturing, D2C, services, deep tech, and everything in between. The diversity of industries in one room is deliberate.

Built by two founders who love Pune & entrepreneurship, both.

We believe in engineered serendipity. Not networking. Not matchmaking. Just the deliberate act of putting the right people in the right room and letting something unexpected happen.

The value of 411 is not in who you meet. It is in how well you know them three months later.

What Pune’s ecosystem needs right now is more intentional spaces like 411 club.

Aishwarya Deshpande

pARTNER, PRANITYA WEALTH

With 411, we finally have a space where founders can come together, and grow collectively.

Kabir Kate

Solitario diamonds

What stands out about 411 is the authenticity it brings to the table.

Akshat Shaligram

AVAIL Advertising

"Everyone’s so welcoming. I came for the training, but I stayed for the people. It honestly feels like family on and off the court."

Paula

bhadipa

What stood out was the collective energy of everyone open to sharing their experiences & insights.

Omkar Jadhav

Amuk tamuk

This can become a great enabler for Pune ecosystem and also mentorship for young founders.

Siddhant Bhalinge

UGAAO