The Karaoke Club Manifesto: Building together beats building alone
Why we exist, what we do, and who should join.
You’re building something that could reshape an entire industry. Going against the stream. Fighting for something that doesn’t exist yet.
From the outside, it might look shiny. But we know the reality. The 3 AM doubts. The pivots that feel like failures. The impossible conversations with investors who just don’t get it. The weight of carrying your team’s livelihoods on your back.
This is lonely work. It doesn’t have to be.
Drop the act
Karaoke Club is your home where you can stop performing and start being yourself. No polished pitches. No fake confidence. No pretending you have all the answers.
This is where you get the energy you need to keep up the fight. Where admitting you might run out of money gets you tactical advice, not pity.
We created Karaoke Club because the best founders don’t emerge in isolation. They come from clusters of other exceptional founders who push each other, challenge each other, and refuse to let each other settle.
The company you keep
When you’re surrounded by founders building hundred-million-dollar companies, aiming for anything less starts to feel small. When everyone around you is solving impossible problems, your impossible problems start to feel solvable. When the person next to you just closed their Series A, did an exit, or scaled past €100M ARR, you stop wondering if it’s possible and start figuring out how.
Ambition is contagious. But only if you expose yourself to a community of other great founders.
At Karaoke Club, we’re not here to make you feel comfortable. We’re here to make you feel like a beginner again – because that’s when you grow fastest.
Why Europe needs this
The best founders don’t just need capital – they need other founders who understand the challenges of building. This is something we’ve experienced is lacking in Europe.
When European founders connect with each other, share learnings, and push each other’s ambitions higher, the entire ecosystem gets stronger. We’re not afraid of risk and invest as early as possible.
Too early is never an excuse for us. We’re part of creating the pipeline that later-stage investors need. Karaoke Club exists to accelerate the flywheel of European startups.
We’re there from the start
We invest at the very beginning – your first real round. When you’re transitioning from a side project to full-time commitment. When you need just enough capital to quit your job and go all in.
We back two types of founders:
Serial founders or operators who’ve been through this before and know what they’re building toward. Either you were a founder, or you joined a fast-scaling startup early as an operator. You’ve learned from the last company. You’re moving faster this time.
Young talent who’ve quickly bootstrapped to real traction. You’ve proven you can execute without resources, you’ve found something people want, and now you need capital to accelerate. You might not have the traditional credentials, but you’ve got the results.
In both cases, our capital is designed to enable you to go full-time. To bring on that critical co-founder. To spend six months building instead of consulting. To focus entirely on your startup instead of splitting attention with a day job.
What we actually do
We’re investors, but we’re not typical ones. We are so much more than just a check.
We’re your backup singers, your hype crew, your door openers. Your product feedback machines and your fundraising experts. We’ve helped founders raise millions of euros. We know what catches an investor’s eye.
More importantly, Karaoke Club is backed by founders who have done it all. Scaled to millions in ARR. Exited to some of the biggest companies in the world. Built category-defining products. Survived the pivots, the near-death moments, the impossible fundraising markets.
How this works
The Investment: We invest €50-100k in your first round, typically through a SAFE. Fast decisions, founder-friendly terms. We like to be part of a total round of €200-700k and help you bring in other investors if you need some more intros.
The Community: When we invest, you become part of the Karaoke Club community. This isn’t a passive network – it’s an active, engaged group of founders who are all building ambitious companies right now. We maintain an active WhatsApp chat where founders ask questions, share wins, and get immediate feedback from people who actually understand what they’re dealing with.
Karaoke Camps: Four times per year, we bring all our founders together for Karaoke Camp. They’re intimate gatherings where founders share real learnings, meet new friends, and hear the unfiltered founding stories from successful entrepreneurs who’ve been through it all. The conversations you wish you could have but never get the chance to – that’s what happens at Karaoke Camp. And yes, we sing karaoke.
Reflection Sessions: Every second week, we have an accountability session scheduled in your calendar to check in and ask questions together with the other founders. Reflecting together can be more productive than reflecting alone.
Join us
If you’re building something truly ambitious – something that could dominate an entire market, create a new category, or fundamentally change how an industry works – you belong here.
If you’re a serial founder ready to do it better this time, or young talent who’s already proven you can execute, you belong here.
Join the community + get €50-100k in funding.