The Community for Founders Building with AI

Portugal
Joined October 2022
Architecture, code, and AI collided to turn an ambitious concept into a buildable design. @DarkMatteris, one of Poolside members, used it on Casa do Poente, an observatory house in Alentejo. Every angle, every sightline, worked out by prompt before a wall went up.
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We invest in the earliest stages then stay close: intros and technical help when you’re stuck. Building with AI and want investors like that? 👉 poolside.co/investment
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Happy Tuesday☀️ Alvalade offers a more local side of Lisbon. Everything you need is within a five-minute walk, yet it’s calm enough to get real work done. If you’re building with AI and looking for a place to work, come join us! APPLY: poolside.co/apply
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Come hack Meridian 💫 We’re teaming up with @BuildOnStellar and @GuavaGlobal to bring hackers and founders to build on Stellar. Ship a project, compete for the prize pool and connect with the best teams on Stellar. 🛠 2 days of building, workshops & mentoring 🚀 Get your project in front of the Stellar ecosystem 📍 Warehouse ONE16, Lisbon 🗓 Oct 25–26 Apply 👇 hackmeridian.com/
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For a builder, the right intro at the right time changes everything. We work alongside founders from day one, from fundraising to finding first customers.
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Remote gives you focus. Poolside gives you a community: founders building with AI, in Alvalade and Santos. ✨ Want in? poolside.co/apply
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📚 Poolside portfolio update: @portals_fi has routed $1B+ and was a day-one launch partner for Base's tokenised equities. They spent this year rebuilding infrastructure nobody was asking them to rebuild. Glad to be along for it. ➡️ The full story: poolside.co/blog/portals-fi-…
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✨ Meet Poolside members ✨ Circles is a French FemTech brand building 100% natural solutions for every stage of a woman's cycle. Mission: educate on the hormonal imbalance behind menstrual problems, and offer a holistic method. Get to know them → wearecircles.com
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At Poolside, we invest at the earliest stages and work alongside founders: capital, introductions, and technical help when it counts.
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Founders get access to our 2 coworking spaces in Lisbon, so they can build and scale with the support of a community.
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A few founders at Poolside came from web3. Some of the habits they picked up are surprisingly useful for building AI products. 🧵
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3. Adapt quickly. Web3 moves fast. Narratives shift and yesterday's assumptions can become obsolete. That comfort with uncertainty is valuable when building in AI.
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Wondering how to join Poolside community? Here are all the questions we actually ask every founder who applies 👇
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Your favourite space: Alvalade, Santos, or mostly remote through Slack.
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