We built the thing our community needed.

I launched Synchronize because I had lived the problem. I was not looking to found a software company.

I was helping to run one of the fastest-growing communities for venture capital professionals. It began with 20 people on a Google Group: simple, intimate, and exactly enough. As it grew toward 400 members, that setup started to break the community.

I desperately began the hunt for a better community platform to run on, but every available option came with a tradeoff. A dedicated platform could create a wonderful experience once members logged in. First, they had to remember to go there. Slack felt natural to some, while others could not use it, did not enjoy it, or simply did not want another workspace. Email was effortless for email-first members and exhausting for people whose inboxes were already overflowing.

I knew clearly what the problem was, and I had a vision of the ideal solution: a community platform that met members where they were and allowed them to engage seamlessly however they wanted. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything built that way. So I resorted to building it myself.

The early versions were cobbled together, fragile, and broke often, but the principle at the center of what we built felt magical. Members could participate in the way that worked for them without leaving the shared community behind. The technology adapted to people, rather than asking every person to adapt to the technology.

Other community leaders started asking what we had built and whether they could use it too. They could see that something special was happening. The demand made it clear that this was not only our problem; it was a structural challenge facing communities everywhere. In 2023, I launched Synchronize as a company so other leaders could build the kind of community experience I had needed myself.

Today, the current version of Synchronize still powers that original venture capital community. It has grown from roughly 400 members to well over 2,000, expanded into a truly global membership, and become a nonprofit organization with more than $1 million in revenue. Synchronize now powers communities with tens of thousands of members around the world, including many that have grown into million-dollar-plus businesses of their own.

Along the way, Synchronize has built a strong, distributed team of people around the world who are passionate about helping communities operate more seamlessly. Across engineering, operations, finance, sales, and customer support, we work tirelessly on this problem and are deeply committed to the communities that trust us.