On Deck
Pre-seed and pre-idea technology founders in or willing to travel to San Francisco, building for United States customers, who are committed full-time to starting a company.
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创立: TechCrunch reported that On Deck launched in June 2019, co-founded by Erik Torenberg and David Booth. The current ODF site does not publish a founding date.
ODF is the surviving founder programme of On Deck, the venture-backed community company launched in June 2019 by Erik Torenberg and David Booth. In its original form On Deck sold a wide range of paid year-long fellowships and vertical communities alongside an equity accelerator, ODX. After cutting a quarter of its staff in May 2022 and a further third that August, the company narrowed to founder programmes. By 2026 the beondeck.com domain redirects to joinodf.com, where the programme is run by nZero Labs, Inc. and has been reshaped into a one-week in-person sprint in San Francisco for 80 to 100 people, followed by ongoing access to an online member community. It takes no equity and charges on a pay-what-you-can basis with a suggested US$1,000 contribution, a substantial change from the US$2,990 ODF fee reported in 2022. Admission runs through an application and one or two interviews. Two related programmes, a three-month Solo Founders residency and Solo Grants, are listed alongside ODF.
运作方式
Applicants complete a form, optionally submit an async video, and take one or two interviews, with a decision stated at roughly 36 hours. Admitted founders attend a full five-business-day sprint in San Francisco built around meeting potential collaborators, testing ideas and building conviction. After the week, alumni retain access to an online community platform and to a set of vendor perks the organization values at more than US$800,000, covering services such as Mercury, AWS and Stripe Atlas.
典型会员
ODF states that cohorts run 80 to 100 people and that more than half have technical backgrounds. The published eligibility screen excludes founders who have raised beyond pre-seed, who already have a team, whose business cannot reach venture scale, or whose target customers are outside the United States. Named alumni companies include Cal.com, Luma and Partiful.
会员资格要求
详细要求及历史沿革 →资格要求是指该组织自行发布的评定标准：年龄上限、公司营收下限、净资产最低要求、职位要求。如某项数据跨越某一区间，以该组织自身的判断为准。各地分会可采用比公开标准更严格的要求。
| 标准 | 已公布要求 | 来源出处 |
|---|---|---|
| 其他标准 | "A track record of shipping impressive things" | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
| 其他标准 | "100% committed (or soon committing) to starting a company" | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
| 最低融资规模 | Must not have raised beyond pre-seed | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
| 地域限制 | Target customers must be in the United States; attendance in San Francisco for five business days is required | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
| 其他标准 | Business must be capable of reaching venture scale; applicants who already have a team are screened out | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
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入会费在加入时一次性缴纳，会费则定期收取。分会会费、营地活动、差旅及活动费用通常为额外支出，如该组织有所披露，将单独列出。各项数据以发布或报道时为准，并非报价。
| 费用 | 首年 | 三年 | 来源出处 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 年度会费每年 | $10,000 | $30,000 | 已验证 September 2026中等置信度来源 ↗ | |
| 项目费用once | $1,000 | $1,000 | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ | |
| 项目费用once | $2,990 | alternative tier, not added | 已验证 September 2026中等置信度来源 ↗ | |
| 项目费用once | $5,000 | alternative tier, not added | 已验证 September 2026中等置信度来源 ↗ | |
| 申请费 | Not publicly disclosed. No application fee is mentioned on the admissions FAQ. | 来源 ↗ | ||
| 估算总计，仅披露数据 | $11,000 | $31,000 | 未计入: Programme fee (2 alternative tiers, not added), Application fee. | |
架构与项目设置
运营地区
1 chapters on file · 1 citiesChapters verified from published sources.
Each dot is a city with at least one chapter on file. City positions © OpenStreetMap contributors.
1 分会
| 分会或所在地 | 城市 | 国家 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODF San Francisco sprint program location The one-week in-person cohort onboarding is held in San Francisco; the Solo Founders residency is also San Francisco based. | San Francisco | United States | ||
| No chapter on file matches that. This list is not complete, so one may still exist. | ||||
独立背景信息
On Deck is a useful cautionary case for anyone assessing paid founder communities. It scaled to a US$650 million valuation on a subscription-community model, then contracted sharply in 2022 and now operates a far smaller programme under a different corporate name. Prospective applicants should treat pre-2023 coverage of On Deck's fellowships, prices and breadth as historical. The current ODF is best understood as a short, cheap, non-dilutive co-founder-matching and idea-validation sprint rather than a standing membership organization, and its pay-what-you-can pricing means the selection filter, not the fee, is what gates the room. The geographic and stage constraints are unusually explicit and narrow: San Francisco in person, United States customers, pre-seed or earlier, no existing team.
编辑分析，作者： Peer Group Guide editors. 此内容与上方记录相互独立，位于其后 编辑政策.
类似组织
按需求分类的替代选项 →历史与变更
全站变更日志 →- milestoneOn Deck launches, co-founded by Erik Torenberg and David Booth. ↗
- milestoneTiger Global leads a US$40 million Series B at a US$650 million valuation, up from a US$175 million valuation at Series A; earlier backers include Founders Fund and Village Global. ↗
- milestoneOn Deck cuts 25 percent of staff, about 72 employees, and scales back its ODX accelerator, which had invested US$125,000 for 7 percent in roughly 150 companies. ↗
- milestoneOn Deck lays off a further third of staff, months after the May reduction. ↗
- fee changeOn Deck narrows to founder programmes, spinning off its career services division and sunsetting several vertical communities; ODF is priced at US$2,990. ↗
- milestonebeondeck.com redirects to joinodf.com; the founder programme runs as ODF with nZero Labs, Inc. named as operator, restructured into a one-week San Francisco sprint on a… ↗
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迈出下一步
来源
- On Deck (redirects to joinodf.com), On Deck. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- ODF - On Deck Founders, ODF / nZero Labs, Inc.. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- ODF Top Companies, ODF. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- Solo Founders Program, Solo Founders. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- ODF Admissions FAQ, ODF. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 2
- On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it's trying to do less, better, TechCrunch, September 2022. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 6
- On Deck cuts 25% of staff, scales back accelerator, TechCrunch, May 2022. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 6
- On Deck lays off a third of staff after cutting a quarter just months prior, TechCrunch, August 2022. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 6
来源等级遵循以下公开层级：1 官方网站 · 2 官方会员材料 · 3 申请文件 · 4 年度报告 · 5 政府备案文件 · 6 可靠的商业出版物 · 7 有据可查的访谈 · 8 其他信誉良好的二手资料。 来源与数据政策.
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