Financial decisions travel by recommendation between peers. ernest connects banks, fintechs, insurers and funds to the professional communities where those conversations happen (founders' clubs, business breakfasts, coworking spaces, freelance collectives) so you can sponsor, teach and build relationships, then measure the impact.
Nobody switches bank, insurer or payment provider because of a banner. They switch because someone they respect said it works. Professional communities are exactly where that sentence gets spoken, repeatedly, to people in the same situation.
These rooms also concentrate your highest-value segments: founders, freelancers, young professionals, people at the precise life or business moment when a financial product gets chosen. Showing up usefully there beats outbidding everyone on the same keywords.
Acquisition costs are high and your category inspires low spontaneous trust.
Your best clients come from referral, but you have no way to organize it.
You want to reach founders, freelancers or young professionals at the right moment.
Back a founders' club, a breakfast series or a community's annual event, and become a familiar presence rather than an ad in their feed.
Run a genuinely useful session for members (fundraising, cash management, taxes, insurance) where your expertise is the product being demonstrated.
Work with organizers and members who recommend you to their peers, with a dedicated offer for the community and trackable conversions.
Built for neobanks, payment and billing fintechs, insurers and brokers, wealth and investment platforms, and VC funds sponsoring founder communities for dealflow and visibility.
Activate the communities in your industry with ernest.
Get startedYes. Funds sponsor founders' clubs, startup communities and angel circles the same way a brand sponsors a run club: to be present where founders gather, source dealflow and build reputation among the people they want to back. ernest handles the matching, the scoping and the measurement.
By sponsoring the community's events, running a useful workshop for its members, or setting up an ambassador partnership with a dedicated member offer. ernest matches you with the communities whose members fit your target and tracks the results.
