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Visionaries · Influencers · Builders · Entrepreneurs

Meet the people who move you forward.

VIBE transforms networking into meaningful relationships. Through intentional conversations, founder alignment, and complementary connections, we help Visionaries, Influencers, Builders, and Entrepreneurs meet the people who naturally accelerate their journey.

Human connection before business.
Alignment before opportunity.

Why VIBE

Networking introduces people. Alignment connects the right people.

Traditional networking often focuses on volume: more events, more contacts, more introductions.

But ambitious people do not necessarily need more contacts. They need relationships with people who understand their journey, complement their strengths, and help them move forward.

VIBE replaces random introductions with intentional alignment.

Two founders in a focused one-to-one conversation
Traditional networkingVIBE
More contactsMore relevant relationships
Random introductionsIntentional connections
Elevator pitchesMeaningful conversations
Similar interestsComplementary strengths
Short-term transactionsLong-term alignment

The VIBE Archetype System™

Discover how you naturally create momentum.

The VIBE archetypes are not personality labels. They represent behavioural patterns that influence how you make decisions, lead, communicate, execute, and collaborate.

01

Visionary

Sees what could exist.

Visionaries recognise patterns, possibilities, and opportunities before they are obvious to others.

Core energy
Possibility
Explore the Visionary

02

Influencer

Moves people and ideas.

Influencers build trust, create visibility, strengthen relationships, and inspire people to participate.

Core energy
Movement
Explore the Influencer

03

Builder

Turns ideas into reality.

Builders create the systems, processes, products, and structures that make progress sustainable.

Core energy
Execution
Explore the Builder

04

Entrepreneur

Turns opportunity into action.

Entrepreneurs make decisions, mobilise resources, accept uncertainty, and create forward momentum.

Core energy
Ownership
Explore the Entrepreneur

You may carry more than one VIBE energy, but one will usually shape how you naturally operate.

Take the VIBE Archetype Assessment
Three founders reviewing their assessment results together

Know your VIBE

Understand yourself. Recognise your blind spots. Build better relationships.

The VIBE Archetype Assessment™ is a behavioural decision-making framework that reveals how you naturally operate.

By identifying the patterns behind your decisions, leadership, communication, execution, and collaboration, it helps you:

  • Understand your dominant and secondary archetypes
  • Recognise your natural strengths
  • Identify recurring blind spots
  • Improve how you communicate and collaborate
  • Discover which behaviours complement your own

VIBE does not define who you are. It provides a blueprint for how you create momentum.

The VIBE Founder Alignment Experience™

Intentional networking, redesigned for founders.

The VIBE Founder Alignment Experience™ is VIBE’s signature networking methodology. It helps founder communities transform introductions into meaningful, high-value relationships through intentional conversations, complementary strengths, and founder alignment.

The five-stage experience

01

Discover

Understand how you naturally operate through the VIBE Archetype Assessment.

02

Express

Clarify what you are building, what you bring, and where you need support.

03

Align

Identify founders and collaborators with relevant, complementary behaviours.

04

Connect

Participate in guided conversations designed to move beyond surface-level introductions.

05

Activate

Develop promising connections into trusted, mutually valuable relationships.

Founders mapping complementary strengths across a table

The assessment creates self-awareness. Founder alignment turns that awareness into better relationships.

From identity to momentum

One connected journey.

StageVIBE layerOutcome
DiscoverArchetype AssessmentKnow how you operate
UnderstandArchetype FrameworkRecognise strengths and blind spots
AlignFounder Alignment ExperienceMeet complementary people
ConnectChapter experiencesDevelop trust locally
ActivateVIBE communityCreate relationships and momentum

IdentityAlignmentConnectionRelationshipMomentum

At the event

Check in. Get matched. Meet.

No app to install. You scan a code, answer a few questions, and the room rearranges itself around who you should actually talk to.

01

Check in

Scan the code on the way in. What you are building, your industry, and what you are hoping to find. Under two minutes.

02

Get matched

Your own shortlist of people in that room, each with the reason you were put together. No score, no ranking — a reason.

03

Meet

Say who you want to meet. When it is mutual, we introduce you. Then it is just two people talking, which was always the point.

Contact details are exchanged only when both people say yes. Not when you are matched — when you have each said you want to meet. And if you decide not to meet someone, they are never told; you look exactly like someone who has not answered yet.

That is deliberate, and it is why people answer honestly instead of politely. How we handle your data.

Experiences

Better rooms create better conversations.

VIBE experiences are intentionally designed around trust, relevance, and meaningful participation.

A working session where founders map ideas together

Founder Alignment ExperiencesSignature

VIBE’s signature methodology for creating complementary founder connections.

Connection Circles

Small, guided conversations centred around common challenges and different perspectives.

Co-Founder Matching Dinners

Curated dinners focused on values, vision, working style, and complementary capabilities.

Skill-Sharing Sessions

Practical learning led by community members across leadership, AI, technology, communication, operations, and growth.

Founder and Investor Conversations

Honest discussions that build understanding and relationships before fundraising conversations begin.

VIBE Social Experiences

Relaxed cultural, culinary, and lifestyle gatherings where relationships develop naturally.

VIBE Geneva

One city, done properly.

VIBE runs its own rooms in Geneva. It is where the Archetype Framework, Founder Alignment and the matching were built — and where they get tested on real people rather than described.

Other cities will come when there is someone right to hold them. We would rather name a city once it exists than once it is hoped for.

Members walking together through Geneva at dusk

The founding chapter

VIBE Geneva

VIBE Geneva brings founders, innovators, creators, operators, and community leaders together through curated experiences in one of Europe’s most international cities.

Run an event of your own?

VIBE matches the room at your event, so your attendees leave with the one relationship that mattered — and you can see whether it happened.

VIBE for organizers

Community Stories

Relationships that created real momentum.

What changed — not simply whether someone enjoyed an event.

Meaningful projects, not business cards

“It’s not about exchanging business cards, but creating meaningful projects together.”
Babak HeidarpourBabak Heidarpour

Authentic relationships, not transactions

“There is a level of authenticity in the VIBE network.”
Steven AntalicsSteven Antalics

The confidence to share an early idea

“You can come as you are — you don’t have to be shy to expose your ideas.”
Tom BaudTom Baud

Human connection before business

“I’m convinced that doing successful business needs to rely on human connection first.”
Miguel CamachoMiguel Camacho

Learning from people who actually build

“Honest people. Real builders. A community where you can learn directly from people who are actually doing the work — not just talking about it.”
Norman LaudiniNorman Laudini

The VIBE Partner Ecosystem

Building stronger founder communities together.

VIBE collaborates with organisations that believe meaningful relationships are essential to entrepreneurial progress.

Partners help bring the VIBE methodology to new communities, create valuable experiences, provide founder resources, and strengthen local ecosystems.

AI Love Jazz
Big Bloom
LinkedIn Local Romandie
The Founders Club

Partner categories

  • Community Partners
  • Chapter Partners
  • Experience Partners
  • Ecosystem Partners
  • Venue and Hospitality Partners
  • Education and Innovation Partners

The VIBE Code

Connection begins with how we show up.

VIBE is designed for people who value substance, curiosity, contribution, and genuine human relationships.

An open circle of members listening to one another

Our principles

  • Human connection before business
  • Conversation before pitching
  • Alignment before opportunity
  • Contribution before extraction
  • Curiosity before assumption
  • Respect, trust, and confidentiality
  • Follow-through after the introduction

VIBE may not be for you if

  • You only want to collect contacts
  • You lead every conversation with a pitch
  • You expect access without contribution
  • You value status more than substance
  • You treat community as a shortcut
Members welcoming one another before an experience begins

Find your place

For people building something meaningful.

  • Founders and aspiring founders
  • Creators and storytellers
  • Business owners and operators
  • Technologists and product builders
  • Investors and mentors
  • Community and ecosystem leaders
  • Professionals transitioning into entrepreneurship
  • People seeking aligned collaborators or co-founders

You do not need to have everything figured out. You do need curiosity, integrity, and a willingness to participate.

Upcoming experiences

Enter a different kind of room.

VIBE Geneva experiences are small and curated, so places are limited and released to the community first. Tell us where to reach you and you will hear about the next experience before it is announced publicly.

Occasional notes about upcoming Geneva experiences. No forwarding, no lists shared with anyone, unsubscribe at any time.

A small curated working session in progress
Michael Ruiz, founder of VIBE

Why I created VIBE

I kept meeting talented people who were building alone.

Throughout my career in hospitality, technology, entrepreneurship, and community building, I repeatedly entered rooms filled with brilliant, ambitious people.

Yet many of them still felt stuck.

Some could see the future but needed help creating structure. Others could execute but struggled to gain visibility. Some were exceptional connectors but lacked the systems needed to sustain momentum. Others created opportunities while carrying too much alone.

These were not failures of ambition. They were patterns of misalignment.

I created VIBE around a simple belief: when people understand how they naturally operate and intentionally connect with those who complement their strengths, everything changes.

Michael RuizFounder, VIBE

Join VIBE

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what you are building and what you are looking for. Every application is read personally, and we will come back to you with a next step — whether that is membership, an experience, a chapter, or a partnership.

You are not stuck. You are misaligned.

We treat every application in confidence. Nothing you write here is shared outside the VIBE team.

Your next breakthrough may not be another idea. It may be the right person.

Discover how you naturally operate. Understand the strengths you bring. Meet the people who can naturally accelerate your journey.