Most networks sell you access to a room and let you work it out. This one does the opposite. You tell me what you need in your own words, one person reads it, and I go find the specific human who can move it.
$200 a month. The first 25 members hold that rate for as long as they stay.
Not sure yet? Take fifteen minutes with me and tell me what you need. If I do not think I can route it, I will say so rather than take the money.
What you actually get
Three introductions a month. Not a directory, not a Slack invite, not a searchable database. An actual email from me to two people, with context on both sides, sent because I think the meeting is worth having.
Free entry to every room I run. The Thursday rooms, the investor webinars, the fashion week events, the dinners. No separate ticket.
Your card gets read first. Everything routed through Propel starts as a Propel Card. Members go to the front of that queue.
An honest no. If I cannot route what you need, I say so, and I tell you who might be able to. That is worth more than a polite maybe.
How it works, start to finish
One. You join, and you fill in one form. It asks what you are working on, what you need, what you can offer, and how soon you need it. Two minutes.
Two. I read it. Actually read it, not a keyword match. Then I look at everyone else who has filed a card and at the people I know outside the list.
Three. When I find the match, I write to both sides separately before I connect anyone. Nobody gets a surprise introduction, and nobody gets volunteered.
Four. The introduction goes out with real context, so both people know why they are in the same thread.
Five. I follow up. Introductions that go quiet are the whole failure mode of networking, so the ones I make get chased.
Who this is for
Founders raising or selling, who need a specific person and not more advice. Investors who want deal flow that has been read by a human first. Operators and service providers who want to be routed to the people who need exactly what they do.
Who it is not for. Anyone who wants a list of emails. Anyone who wants volume. If your plan is to send the same message to two hundred people, this will disappoint you and you should not pay for it.
What has actually closed
Aurora Wenters told us what she needed when she registered for Demo Day. We matched her before the doors opened. She closed $100,000 a month later.
Propel ran an approval only investor webinar for KIBO on 31 July. Two guests offered introductions live on the call without being asked. A former Federal Reserve Bank operator in that room connected KIBO to a crypto payments company and a call was on the calendar within a week. Another guest who could not attend read the follow up, asked for the introduction anyway, and had a discovery call the next day.
That is the product. Not the room, not the email. The introductions that came out of it.
The rooms you walk into free
Membership includes every room I run, and they are not webinars. Hamptons Fashion Week, 22 August at the Southampton Inn: 374 guests, four designers on the runway, and Jeffrey Banks headlining, two Coty Awards, trained under Ralph Lauren and then Calvin Klein.
Southampton Inn, 22 August. Photography by DCG Media Group.
Next is Times Square Fashion Week, Tuesday 15 September on Father Duffy Square, eleven hours in the middle of Manhattan. Members get in without buying a ticket.
Tuesday 15 September, Father Duffy Square.
And the Thursday rooms, every week, online. Everyone gets two minutes to say what they are working on and what they need, and I make the introductions live rather than afterwards over email.
Where your card ends up
Your introductions get built from what you write on the card, and the public half of your work lives on propel.earth. Eighty three founders are already up there with a stage, a funding goal and the problem they are solving.
A Featured Founder page. Mission, vision, what you are raising, and what you have run.
Before you pay
File a card first. It is free, it takes four minutes, and it tells me whether I can help you before you spend anything.
Then, if you want your card at the front of the queue and three introductions a month built from it:
Questions first is fine. Fifteen minutes, whenever suits you.