Community stories · Oct 12, 2026 · 1 min read
The founders’ table: what happens when builders meet
Three times a year, founders, creatives and investors sit in the same room to trade problems and openings. Here is how the Entrepreneurs Meet-Up is built.
Makutano Afrika editorial
The Entrepreneurs Meet-Up exists to bring founders, entrepreneurs, creatives, investors and business-minded people into one room to exchange ideas. It runs three times a year.
The format moves between founder stories, business discussions and problem-solving, with time set aside for opportunity sharing and pitch moments. In practice the room does two things at once: it shows you what is working for other people, and it asks what you are stuck on.
It is deliberately mixed. Founders, creatives and investors sit at the same tables, so the person beside you may be a year ahead, a year behind, or holding the answer to something you have been circling for months.
If you are going, arrive with one problem you are genuinely working on and a clear sense of what you need — a collaborator, a customer, a supplier, an introduction. Specific asks travel further in a room like this than general ones.
