cohort 01

troy.

cohort 01 · july 2026 · complete

built in a month. backed beyond it.

31 days in bengaluru. the work carried on long after everyone left the house.

where
bengaluru
when
july 2026
the room
11 founders
built
6 companies

from buildingto raising.

help with the product. clarity on the story. support through the raise.

founders worked on their products with feedback from the room, refined their positioning, and brought working demos to the final presentations.

the support continued into fundraising: preparing for investor conversations, making introductions, and working through the next steps.

full film coming. due diligence is underway, and founders are still closing their rounds. we’ll share the full story as those wrap up.

“the work got faster because the explaining stopped.”
waris reshi asent · cohort 00 and 01

“you spend years being the only person in the room who cares this much. then you walk in here and everyone is like that.”

one house.thirty-one days.

a home in bengaluru for the founders of cohort 01: shared meals, late nights, and working demos by the end.

the lounge at the cohort 01 house in Bengaluru
the dining room opening onto the garden
the kitchen island
the living room and bookshelves
one of the bedrooms

the peoplein the room.

11 founders. a shared address, independent minds.

what they built.

6 companies out of one house in bengaluru.

cohort 01

ArcXiv

cohort 01

digress

cohort 01

Hug

cohort 01

Latitude54

cohort 01

taan ai

cohort 01

zebrafish

the whole portfolio

the series.