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Networking is broken.
Yours doesn't have to be.

The world has never been more connected, yet the search for someone with serious intent usually ends in scammers and course sellers. Glim is the opposite: a private room where networking means something again: Share what you're building, trade skills, debate ideas that matter, and team up with the people who prove themselves.

Built by students and founders at

Harvard University
MIT
Imperial College London
London School of Economics
Columbia University

The problem

You came to connect.
They came to convert.

Meeting one right person used to change your whole year. Somewhere along the way, it became this:

Feeds full of gurus.

Social platforms reward the loudest voice in the room: course sellers, fake mentors, and scammers dressed as founders.

Events cost a fortune.

Conferences and meetups mean tickets, travel, and days lost — for a stack of business cards nobody follows up on.

Masks everywhere.

You finally meet someone interesting — and weeks later learn they're not who they claimed. Time you never get back.


What Glim is

Networking, upgraded.

Glim is a community of founders who take each other seriously. Networking here isn't collecting contacts: you browse projects and profiles, find the people whose work resonates, and start a real conversation.

Share ideas, trade skills, and debate the hard parts together. And when someone turns out to be your kind of person, start building together.

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The room

This is what you'll see.

Two kinds of card, projects and people. Click one to open the full card, exactly as members see it.


How it works

Three simple steps.

1

Set out your card.

Post a project, a profile, or both, guided by a few honest prompts.

The door is guarded

A room you can trust.

Every other network has the same disease: scammers, course sellers, and people who waste your time. Glim is built so they never get in.

Every member is verified by a human and a secure algorithm before entry. LinkedIn verification is available and only reinforces your account. Automated systems watch for scam patterns, mass messaging, link spam, and attempts to pull you off-platform, and a human reviews every flag before anyone is removed.

We take the security of this platform seriously. Every report is reviewed within 24 hours, and once someone is banned, they are banned forever.

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Why it's different

Quiet on the surface, serious underneath.

Brainstorm with your kind of people. Real conversations with founders who share your interests, not comment threads.

Turn a chat into a cofounder. When it clicks, add them to your project and start building together.

No likes, no follows, no swipes. The only way to reach someone is to say something real.

No ads, ever. You are never the product.


Who it's for

For founders with something real going on.

Whether you are still finding the idea, deep in building, or shipping, Glim is for founders who want real people around them: to think with, to trade skills with, and maybe to build alongside.

You do not have to quit your life, move cities, or raise a round to belong here. You have to show up honestly, and be someone others are glad to build with.

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The roadmap

The room is the beginning.

Our Promise: A network of real founders where every conversation is worth having. Here's what we're building, in the open.

  • Live now

    The Room

    Every member's project & profile, searchable, private messaging, and the security layer that keeps scammers out.

  • December

    The Orbit

    Debates, lit by members. Send up a question, argue it with founders whose experience stretches yours, and find your people by how they think. Members get the first look.

  • After that

    The community opens up

    Live brainstorming rooms you create, online events to talk and debate with famous founders, and the chance to get funded through our next project: Glim Capital.


Be part of the founding members.

The first one hundred seats are being filled right now, free, forever, invited by name.

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The First 100

Free, forever

72 seats taken · 28 remain

Invited by name. Hand-picked. The founding room, and a founding say in what gets built.

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Founding member

$30, once

Lifetime access to everything that exists and everything that's coming. First 1,000 people only. Not open yet, the free seats come first.

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Contact

Talk to our team.

Questions, doubts, ideas, press — write to us here and our team will get back to you within 24 hours. No bots, no ticket system.

Our team reads every message.