For experienced operators

Do more with your expertise.

Become an advisor, board member, fractional executive, angel, or speaker with verified founders building across Africa and global markets.

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Four ways to plug in. Pick yours.

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Advise verified founders.

Get matched with founders whose company and current needs have been reviewed.

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Join startup boards.

Help founders make stronger decisions on governance, product, capital, and growth.

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Take a fractional leadership role.

Join a company for a defined period or number of hours each month as an interim functional leader.

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Invest, speak, or open a door.

Back a founder, share what you know on stage, or make one introduction that changes the company’s path.

Real engagements, not random inbound.

Earn from your expertise

See the expected compensation before you commit. Engagements may use cash, equity, or a hybrid.

Get found for larger roles

Build a verified record that helps founders and investors find you for board, advisory, fractional, and leadership work.

Enter the right rooms

Join selected dinners, founder-investor sessions, technical programs, and working groups in Silicon Valley, Nairobi, and other hubs.

Build relationships that compound

Meet founders, investors, and other operators doing real work across the corridor.

Skip the noise

Founders are reviewed before an engagement is offered. You decide which opportunities are worth your time.

How it works

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Apply

Share your background, expertise, availability, and the work you want to do.

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Get reviewed

We assess experience, references, and fit for the network.

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Build your profile

Set your expertise, availability, compensation preferences, and preferred engagements.

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Get matched

Receive curated opportunities aligned to your experience and goals.

The network is already at work.

CTO matched to a NASA-backed startup

Satlyt found the technical leadership needed for its next stage through Silicon Xchange.

Global technology leaders in the room

Silicon Xchange programs have brought founders into direct conversation with leaders from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, venture firms, and global accelerators.

Curated across markets

Operators, founders, investors, and institutional leaders meet through focused programs in Nairobi, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, and other global hubs.

From the network

“This one engineered proximity, and you could feel it in the quality of what got said. Investors, operators, founders, builders, every seat carrying real weight.”

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Jaûne Odombrown
African diaspora investor

Put your experience to work where it matters.

Join executives, investors, and specialists helping strong companies scale across markets.