Income Pooling for High Potential Founders
Diversify your risk as a founder and participate in each others’ upside through income pooling and liquidity products. Join a highly vetted community of high potential founders accelerating growth together.
Why Income Pooling is Needed for High Potential Founders
Traditional financial systems do not consider people's potential. Pando provides financial tools for founders, enabling high potential founders to diversify risk and participate in each others’ upside through income pooling.
Career Volatility
High potential founders face volatile income streams. Income pooling allows you to diversify your risk as a founder, providing portfolio-like control over your financial outcomes by participating in each others’ upside.
Lack of Founder Tools
What financial tools exist for founders? Income pooling and liquidity products provide sophisticated financial infrastructure designed specifically for high potential founders, enabling risk diversification and growth acceleration.
Lack of Peer Support
Building a company can be isolating without a strong support network. Income pooling creates financial incentives that align highly vetted founders to support each other—a tide that lifts all boats through shared success.
The Solution: Income Pooling for High Potential Founders
How can I pool my income or equity with other founders? Income pooling gives high potential founders portfolio-like control over their economics through shared risk and reward, enabling you to participate in each others’ upside.
Income pooling creates a sustainable model where highly vetted, high potential founders support each other through shared financial resources—a tide that lifts all boats, creating growth acceleration and opportunity for ambitious builders.
Key Principles
With its long-standing track record of building income pooling, Pando has developed four key principles on which it operates.
Transparency
Pando helps provide a financial structure that is repeatable, and clear-cut. This allows Pando to support the enforcement of these contracts and create transparency across members
Mutual Support
Members support each other through both good times and challenges. The community helps ensure no one faces hardship alone.
Fair Terms
Terms will never sacrifice founders' overarching wellbeing for the benefit of the pool. Pando strives to find a balance between the pool's needs and its members'.
Community Governance
Community involvement in decision-making around terms and membership is key to creating a system that serves the needs of all members.
Pando's Infrastructure
As the world's premier income pooling company, Pando has built the infrastructure to facilitate income pooling at scale.
AI/ML Underwriting
Advanced models to underwrite individual earnings potential
Customizable deal terms
Deal terms can be adapted for different career paths and founder needs or preferences
Income Verification
Robust payment rails and income verification systems
Benefits of Income Pooling for High Potential Founders
Join a highly vetted community of high potential founders who participate in each others’ upside, diversify risk, and accelerate growth through income pooling and liquidity products.
Risk Diversification
How can I diversify my risk as a founder? Income pooling provides portfolio-like control over your financial outcomes, allowing you to participate in each others’ upside and diversify risk across a highly vetted community of high potential founders.
Participate in Each Others’ Upside
Join a highly vetted community of high potential founders who believe in collective prosperity—a tide that lifts all boats. Participate in each others’ upside through income pooling and peer support.
Liquidity Products & Financial Tools
What financial tools exist for founders? Access liquidity products and innovative financial tools designed specifically for high potential founders, including angel investing opportunities and early access to new products.
Community Impact
How Income Pooling Works for High Potential Founders
How can I pool my income or equity with other founders? See how income pooling enables highly vetted founders to participate in each others' upside, creating a tide that lifts all boats through shared risk and reward.
Income Pooling Example
How We Create a Pool
Join the Community
Become a member of our income pooling community. All members are peer-vetted to support each other's success.
Contribute Your Income
Members contribute a small portion (typically 3%) of their earnings above a certain threshold (e.g., $1M annually) to the shared pool.
Equal Distributions
If any individual pool member succeeds, everyone in the pool benefits through equal distributions from the pooled resources.
Build Together
As the community grows stronger, all members benefit from increased financial security and shared prosperity.
Income Pooling, Liquidity Products & Peer Support
Income pooling is our foundation. Pando offers liquidity products and peer support designed specifically for high potential founders, enabling risk diversification and growth acceleration.
Founder Peer Support
Highly curated, 5-8 person peer groups of high potential founders meeting monthly. Groups are curated with an eye towards similarity of stage and business model, featuring highly vetted founders with diverse experience, skill sets, and networks.
Monthly Meetings
90 min live sessions
Expert Facilitation
Pando accredited facilitators who are previously exited founders
Comprehensive Support
From tactical decisions to strategic challenges
Liquidity Products for Founders
What financial tools exist for founders? Liquidity products provide access to future pool cash flows today when you need it most. High potential founders can access immediate cash flow, and investors can participate through angel investing as founders.
Liquidity for Founders
Access to cash today when you need it most
Expert Vetting
Pool members mutually vet each other with deep industry expertise. Investors can also help with vetting.
High IRR for Investors
Reduced downside and dilution risk as well as greater access to high potential deals
Additional Community Benefits
Pando provides additional tools and services to broaden reach and connections, improving outcomes and ensuring all members are better, together.
Treehouse Slack
Members-only community with hundreds of founders
Curated Networking
Warm introductions across the Pando ecosystem
High-Touch Events
Founder dinners, pitch events, and more
What Our Members Say
Hear from high-potential founders who have found financial security and community through Pando's income pooling platform.
“Pando has helped me connect with other founders in the healthcare and AI startup ecosystem, share our experience and learn from each other. As the CTO of Inito, I often lean on my fellow poolers to seek feedback, make connections and discuss strategies. The Pando team has done an awesome job in building this unique community.”
“Joining Pando's pool has significantly accelerated my startup's growth. The community's expertise in sales strategy, product roadmapping, and general startup challenges, paired with a commitment to support through valuable introductions, has been indispensable. Pando fosters a unique collaborative spirit where everyone's success benefits the group, enhancing our collective ambition.”
“I have never been in an entrepreneurial community that brought this level of accountability and support to the table. My pool members do not just say they have my back. They back it up with action: Introductions to investors, partners, new teammates; strategic ideas, advice and relentless cheerleading when needed. When one of us wins, all win.”
“Being a part of the Pando community has given me a sense of fellow founder support who are also invested in my professional success, in which that combination is difficult if not nearly impossible to find somewhere else. Having a pool of like minded founders to bounce ideas off of and interact with on a regular basis allows me to feel a greater sense of security during the difficult times of the entrepreneurial journey.”
“As a former entrepreneur who now spends the majority of my hours working with them, the prospect of creating pools of tomorrow's business leaders is uniquely powerful. Pando cannot think of another product that allows one to share in the upside of people one believes in, spread personal risk, and boost community support.”
Marty Espe
Founder
“Pooling has helped make the uniquely entrepreneurial experience less lonely, and it has surrounded me with others who are challenging the status quo, solving problems, and working to change the world.”
Trusted by High-Performing Founders
Pando works with 741 high-potential founders and ambitious builders who refuse to settle, including VC-backed entrepreneurs, successful executives, and top-tier business school graduates.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about income pooling and our community.
Still have questions? The team is here to help.
Contact UsBecome a Member
Ready to join a community of high-potential founders? Connect with ambitious builders who refuse to settle and leverage world-class financial tools.
Apply for Membership
Fill out the form below and the team will review your application within 24 hours. Our community is curated for high-potential founders and ambitious builders.
By filling this out you are agreeing to be added to our mailing list. At any point in time down the line you can always unsubscribe.
All data collected is secure and private.
Why Join Pando?
Peer-Selected Community
Join a curated community of high-potential founders and ambitious builders
World-Class Financial Tools
Access sophisticated income pooling and financial infrastructure
Exclusive Access
Get early access to innovative products designed for ambitious entrepreneurs
Get in Touch
Your Privacy Matters
Pando respects your privacy and will never share your information. All data is encrypted and stored securely. You can unsubscribe at any time.