Hop into a room.
Meet a real founder.

Founderhop is a free website for live 1-on-1 video chat between verified founders and business owners from around the world. You sign up with a business email, enter the room, and meet one founder at a time. Press Hop to meet the next person. Calls are never recorded.

First, verify your business email with a 6-digit code. Second, click once to enter the room and get paired with a verified founder on live video. Third, talk, share links in the chat, and press Hop when you want to meet someone new. Signing up takes about a minute.

Yes. Founderhop has no country restriction. Anyone with a business email can join from anywhere in the world, and matching is random, so a call can be with a founder in another country or time zone. You see their country on the call. The site is in English.

They see your country, worked out from your connection, next to your name, role and company. They don't see your city, address, email address or LinkedIn link.

Founders, co-founders and business owners who have a business email, like [email protected]. Personal emails such as Gmail aren't accepted.

Yes. Founderhop is free to join and use while we launch. There is no card to enter and no plan to pick.

A business email shows that you run, or work in, a real business. It keeps casual users and spam out, so the people you meet are people worth meeting.

You verify your business email with a one-time code, and you can add your LinkedIn profile if you want to. Our team reviews members and removes anyone who isn't who they say they are.

The idea, a random 1-on-1 video chat, is similar. Almost everything else is different. Only people with a verified business email can enter, there is no anonymous mode, every report is reviewed, and people who break the rules are banned. Omegle itself shut down in November 2023.

No. We never record video or audio. Chat messages aren't stored either, unless you report someone. Then the last messages of that chat are saved for our team to review.

Video and audio go directly between your browser and the other founder's browser, encrypted in transit. If a direct connection isn't possible, an encrypted relay passes the data along without storing it.

Tap Report in the room. You won't be matched with that person again, and our team reviews every report.

There is no one-tap contact-share button, by design. If you click with someone, you can share a link in the chat, like your LinkedIn or your calendar, and decide for yourself.

Yes. It works in the browser on your phone and laptop. On a phone, open the link in Chrome or Safari, not inside Instagram or LinkedIn, so your camera works.