How to Find a Technical Co-Founder (Without Getting Burned)
Guide to finding the right technical co-founder. What to look for, red flags, where to search, and how non-technical founders can evaluate technical skills.
We've built platforms serving hundreds of millions of users. 25+ successful exits. Now we partner with founders like you.
Cooply is a technical founding team that's worked together for over 20 years. We partner with startup founders as technical experts - consultancy, equity, or both. We take on 3-4 new ventures each year.
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We're not an agency. We become part of your team with flexible engagement models.
Traditional engagement with day rates or project fees. Best for funded startups with specific, well-defined projects.
We work for ownership. Best for pre-funding startups or founders seeking a genuine technical partner.
Reduced rates plus equity upside. Our most common arrangement for long-term partnerships.
Twenty years of building platforms together means we've seen it all.
Scalable, maintainable systems that grow with you from MVP to millions of users.
SaaS, mobile apps, web platforms, and even console games. We've shipped them all.
We've been through it. Technical due diligence, investor conversations, and exit negotiations.
Beyond code: product strategy, hiring, operations support as you scale.
Here's what they had to say.
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Our team is distributed across South Wales and Yorkshire. We work with founders globally, but there's something about a proper cup of tea and a face-to-face chat that Zoom can't replace.
Lessons from 25 years of building platforms and partnering with founders.
Guide to finding the right technical co-founder. What to look for, red flags, where to search, and how non-technical founders can evaluate technical skills.
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We take on 3-4 new ventures each year. If you're building something that could scale to millions of users, we'd love to hear about it.
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