Adaptive Intelligence
A community built around helping one another succeed.
Accomplished leaders across business, academia, entrepreneurship and investment: kind, curious and collaborative people who put their experience, relationships and judgment to work for one another.
We don't collect contacts. We deepen relationships and build value together.
More than a network
Relationships that become useful.
Accomplished people are far more valuable to one another when they actually know, trust and help one another. Members open doors, work through hard decisions, build new initiatives and spend time together around the world. Along the way they build adaptive skill sets of their own, and help others build theirs.
The common expectation is contribution.
What membership provides
Value for members, and for something larger.
Relationships
Accomplished people you get to know, learn from and work with over time.
Advice
Other members' experience and judgment on decisions, transitions and board opportunities.
Opportunities
Introductions, partnerships, roles, customers and investments, when there is a genuine fit.
Build
Complementary expertise to explore companies, projects and ideas together.
Events
Dinners, forums and working sessions designed for real conversation.
Give back
Experience and relationships put to work for other members, Fellows and the wider ecosystem.
Where members meet
In person around the world, and online.
Deal Flow Friday
Ninety minutes. Six pitches. One room that follows up.
Deal Flow Friday is the live monthly pitch session of the Adaptive Exchange, the community's online platform where members ask, offer and connect. On the first Friday of each month, founders, fellows and operators from the community pitch to members, investors and advisors: about six minutes to present, four minutes of questions, and introductions afterwards.
Hosted by Adaptive Foundation on the Exchange. Members attend for free; pitch slots are agreed in advance.
Hosted by
Lyncy Nyandoche
Lyncy facilitates each Deal Flow Friday: the live pitches, the discussion and the introductions that follow.
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Select a track
Founder, fellow or operator with something to pitch; investor or advisor there to listen and ask.
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Pick a date
First Friday of each month. Pitch slots are limited to six; attendance is open to the community.
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Share a summary
A short description of what you are building and what a yes would look like. Slides optional.
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Lock your spot
Six minutes to pitch, four minutes of questions, and a room that follows up.
Membership
A shared mission, and the people who carry it.
Adaptive Intelligence is intentionally selective. Everyone interested in joining starts with a one-to-one conversation about fit: what you have done, what you care about, and what you would contribute.
Membership involves an annual contribution. Contributions vary with how you engage, from individuals building alongside others to institutions developing projects with us, and are agreed to after the fit conversation. Membership begins only if an invitation is extended and accepted.
Membership is not designed to maximize the number of people in the network. It is designed to increase the value of the relationships within it.
- Accomplished executives, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and board members who share our values of kindness, curiosity and collaboration, and who want to contribute to other members as well as benefit from them.
- It begins with a one-to-one conversation, so we can each understand experience, interests, values and what you hope to contribute, and so you can decide whether the community is right for you. An invitation may follow that conversation.
- Yes, membership involves an annual contribution. Contributions vary with how you engage, from individuals building alongside others to institutions developing projects with us, and are agreed to after the fit conversation. Nothing is payable before an invitation is extended and accepted.
- Adaptive Intelligence is a separate for-profit company within the wider Adaptive ecosystem. Adaptive Foundation is the nonprofit at the heart of its charitable mission. The organizations remain legally separate while collaborating where appropriate.
Start a conversation
Interested in joining Adaptive Intelligence?
Tell us a little about yourself and why Adaptive Intelligence interests you.
Prefer to talk first? Schedule a call with Russell Rogers, Adaptive's founder.
Do you want to be part of the Adaptives?
Tell us who you are and what you want to build.