JECA Fund — The Community

One room for the whole network.

Every Jesuit school has a few founders building something serious, and almost none of them know each other. The Slack fixes that. You bring what you have learned, you take what you need, and the whole network moves faster for it.

HiringPost the role you cannot fill, or find the engineer who just left a company you respect.
IntroductionsAsk for a warm path to a customer, an investor, or an operator who has already solved your problem.
AdvicePricing, first hires, term sheets, cofounder trouble, and the questions you would rather not post in public.
Sharing what worksThe playbook that got you your first hundred customers is worth more to someone six months behind you than it is sitting in your notes.

Click join

The link opens Slack's sign-up page for the JECA Entrepreneurs workspace.

Enter your .edu address

Slack confirms the domain against the Jesuit university list and sends you a code.

Introduce yourself

You land in #general. Say what you are building and what you could use help with.

Six channels, each with a job.

The Slack is kept narrow on purpose. Every channel exists because founders in the network kept needing the same thing, and none of it works unless people give before they ask.

#general

Where you land when you join. Introduce yourself, say what you are building, and say what you are stuck on.

#hiring

Roles you are trying to fill, and people worth hiring who just came free. Founders find better engineers through other founders than through job boards.

#intros

Ask for the warm introduction. Name the company or the kind of person you need, and someone in the room usually knows them.

#advice

Pricing, fundraising, first hires, contracts, cofounder problems. Ask the real version of the question, not the polished one.

#wins

Launches, first customers, rounds closed, offers signed. Worth posting, because it tells everyone else what is actually possible.

#random

Everything that is not work. The founders who end up helping each other most are usually the ones who talked about something else first.

The room is only as useful as what people put into it, so answer one question for every question you ask.

Any founder with a Jesuit university email.

Students, recent graduates, alumni, and faculty across all 27 AJCU universities. You do not need to be backed by JECA, and you do not need to have raised anything at all. If your email ends in one of these domains, you are in.

Boston Collegebc.edu

Canisius Universitycanisius.edu

College of the Holy Crossholycross.edu

Creighton Universitycreighton.edu

Fairfield Universityfairfield.edu

Fordham Universityfordham.edu

Georgetown Universitygeorgetown.edu

Gonzaga Universitygonzaga.edu

John Carroll Universityjcu.edu

Le Moyne Collegelemoyne.edu

Loyola Marymount Universitylmu.edu

Loyola University Chicagoluc.edu

Loyola University Marylandloyola.edu

Loyola University New Orleansloyno.edu

Marquette Universitymarquette.edu

Regis Universityregis.edu

Rockhurst Universityrockhurst.edu

Saint Joseph's Universitysju.edu

Saint Louis Universityslu.edu

Saint Peter's Universitysaintpeters.edu

Santa Clara Universityscu.edu

Seattle Universityseattleu.edu

Spring Hill Collegeshc.edu

University of Detroit Mercyudmercy.edu

University of San Franciscousfca.edu

University of Scrantonscranton.edu

Xavier Universityxavier.edu

Your school is not on the list?

The network runs well beyond the AJCU schools, and we add universities as founders show up from them. Write to us and we will add your domain.

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