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about us

we started redwood founders for one reason: building solo is lonely, slow, and often quieter than it should be. so we started building people.

we grew up tinkering and iterating - premature ideas scribbled on walls, late nights debugging, and that stubborn belief that if something was worth solving, we’d find a way to work on it even when nothing else made sense.

that’s exactly why we want to help others make sense of it now. we bring ambitious, early founders and builders together for year-round, intentional events, hackathons, and a spotlight for their startups, all fueled by our big summer program - after hours.

01 The Vision 8 weeks, One goal.
02 The Venue Based at Google HQ, London. High-signal proximity.

here, you show up. you build, iterate, learn and find other cool people. you grow and adapt alongside others - no matter what your idea is or what stage it’s at.

like redwood trees, we’ve found that we grow best next to each other: deep roots for resilience, wide roots for support - the simple equation of community + consistency + grit.

If you’re serious about making something that matters, redwood is the ground on which you learn to grow upward.

meet the
team

Team Member

Zain Mobarik

Founder & CEO

Ex-McKinsey, currently building at incident.io. Defines the term workaholic and keeps the ship moving forward.

> literally never sleeps

batch 0

we asked a simple question: what happens when you take a group of strangers: builders, hackers, creatives, medics and first-time founders, and give them 8 weeks to build something real?

we started at hour 0 with a meet up from st. pancras gardens and a lot of nerves. from there, it was a sprint. every weekend, we took over a different office space in london to turn "cool ideas" into solved problems. we didn't do easy. we pushed for uncomfortable customer interviews, forced pivots when the data didn't look right, and obsessively tracked growth loops.

we brought in mentors, yc alumni, and investors to keep us honest, moving from "imaginary users" to real revenue. by hour 8, we didn't just have 15 sharp pitches and working products; we had a collective of builders who know exactly what it takes to execute.

Aether Protocol
B0 / 01
Venue Google HQ / Demo day
Vertex Labs
B0 / 02
Collaboration Building at Wahed
Nexus On-Chain
B0 / 03
Team Making early hours
Yield Layer 7
B0 / 04
Demo Day Custom booklets

batch 0 proved that you don't need permission to start, you just need a community crazy enough to build with you.

after
hours

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Top finalists take the main stage at Google HQ to pitch to a room of London's top-tier VCs, builders, and investors.

after hours didn’t start as a program.

it started as a pattern.

a pattern we kept noticing in the people who actually went on to build things that mattered.

they didn’t have more than 24 hours in their day. they weren’t born with an edge or fancy medals. they hadn’t sat waiting for permission or that ‘one day’.

they were just consistent in one overlooked place: the hours after everything else stopped.

after hours is built around a simple truth - most meaningful work doesn’t happen on a schedule designed by someone else. it happens when the noise fades, when expectations loosen, when the only thing left is you and the thing you keep thinking about. it is a focused, deliberate period where you start committing to your own ambition. we bring together a small group of builders, thinkers, and creators who all have the same itch: something unfinished, underestimated, or half-built that deserves real attention.

it is a focused, deliberate period where you start committing to your own ambition.

we bring together a small group of builders, thinkers, and creators who all have the same itch: something unfinished, underestimated, or half-built that deserves real attention.

over eight weeks, they show up consistently, build in public with each other, and turn half-baked ideas into visible progress.

plain work.
and a room full of people who care enough to notice when you ship - and when you don’t.

batch 0 proved what happens when you take this seriously. ideas came alive in the form of medtech, edtech, esg, b2b and consumer products. founders stopped hiding behind “still early” and started sharing real numbers. strangers became collaborators. weekends turned into catalysts.

what came out was proof - that if quality people think of quality problems, the work handles the rest.

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success stories
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