Venture Carolina is proud to partner with Sharpen to launch SharpenFounder.

SharpenFounder is a game-changing mental health app designed for founders, entrepreneurs, and early stage company executives to build resiliency against the stresses of creating and growing new companies.

For Founders

We don’t have to tell you that running companies is stressful. The SharpenFounder app shares the stories of how other entrepreneurs that have stood in your shoes have negotiated the same kinds of challenges you face.

Access is temporarily free to users in South Carolina via the SharpenFounder website.

If you are somewhere else, we hope to get you involved too. For that, we first need your help, and that of your ecosystem support partners. Perhaps there is someone in your ecosystem (an angel group, VC fund, or support partners) that could cover the cost of platform access or help us build you more content. You can contact us directly if you’d like to discuss more.

For Entrepreneur Ecosystem Partners

Like us, we know you want to find ways to support the early stage companies in your ecosystem.

Mental health resiliency is an great way to help protect your most important asset - the teams that are creating and executing innovation. SharpenFounder gives them a library of support to build resiliency, improve mental well-being, and nurture your ecosystem.

Whether you’re an incubator, angel group, VC fund, economic development agency, or another critical component of your entrepreneur ecosystem, we think you will find the payoff from helping you companies access the platform to be significant.

Please contact us to learn more about access for your companies or to partner with us to create more bespoke content for you and them.

Take a quick look at several entrepreneurs sharing their experiences of “failure” and how to cope with it, from the SharpenFounder module of “Founder Failure,” in the video above.