Terms of Service

Founder Circle is a community for people building startups: a profile, a feed, products with feedback, testers and reviews, communities, one-to-one chats, and a contribution score that recognises help given to others. Looking around is free. Taking part needs a membership, and two plans add more; Membership, plans and payments below sets out what each costs and gives.

• You must be 18 or older.
• You need a Transcybernetics account to sign in. Keep it secure: you are responsible for what happens on your account, and should tell us at once if someone else uses it.
• One Founder Circle profile per person, in your real name, with true information about yourself and your venture.

Signing in and looking around is free: you can read posts, communities, products and profiles, report anything that breaks these Terms, and ask us for help.

Taking part needs a membership: posting, polls and comments, reacting, voting, saving and reposting, joining communities and product teams, chatting, listing, reviewing and upvoting products. Membership costs ₹99, paid once, and lasts as long as your account, with nothing more to pay. It belongs to your account alone: it cannot be moved to another account or person. Until you are a member, your profile is not listed in Discover or on the leaderboard.

The first 100 people to join the waitlist before Founder Circle opens get their membership free and are numbered as founding members ("Founding member #1" and on). Places are counted in the order our server records each joining, one place per account, and never a second for the same sign-in or the same email inbox. A founding membership gives nothing else, and everyone else pays the membership as above.

Two plans add more on top of a membership:

• Premium: ₹399 a month or ₹3,999 a year. Up to 5 of your products live at once, and new conversations with up to 15 people you do not know each month.
• Business: ₹999 a month or ₹9,999 a year. As many of your products live as you make, within a fair-use limit of 100 at once, and new conversations with up to 50 people you do not know each month.
• Without a plan, a member keeps 1 product live and starts conversations with people they know: their product teams, the private and hidden communities they both joined while it was private or hidden, and anyone they already talk to.

The price you pay is the one shown in Founder Circle when you pay. We may change prices for later purchases; what you have already bought keeps its terms.

How plans work:

• A plan is paid in advance, for a calendar month or a calendar year, and never renews on its own. We remind you in Founder Circle 7 days and 1 day before it ends.
• Buying more of the plan you are on adds its time after what you have. Buying Premium while you are on Business adds it after your Business time.
• Moving from Premium to Business turns the Premium time you have left into Business time, for the difference in price: ₹6,000 for each whole year left, ₹600 for each whole month after that, and ₹20 a day for the days left over, never more than ₹600 for those days, nor more than ₹6,000 for everything under a year. The price is shown before you pay.
• You can hold at most 3 years of plan time ahead.
• The allowance of new people starts again on the 1st of each month, India time. A conversation already started never counts again.
• When a plan ends, or a refund takes plan time away, the products over your new limit are paused (archived ones first, then the newest): only their team and our staff can see them. Those paused this way come back by themselves when a place frees; one you paused yourself stays paused until you make it live.
• A product you pause yourself still takes one of your live places when you add a new product, so pausing never makes room for another; one paused because a plan ended does not.
• A suspension does not pause a plan's time.

Codes:

• A code can give a membership free or take a share off a price, for a limited number of people or a limited time. Each code can be used once per account.
• We may take away a membership given by mistake, or one taken by a duplicate or fake account. A membership you paid for is refunded instead, as below.

Paying:

• Prices are in Indian rupees and include GST at 18%.
• Payments are taken by Razorpay, by the methods its payment form offers. We never see your card, UPI, bank or wallet details.
• Every payment gets a tax invoice, in Me, then Settings, then Payments, and a receipt by email. For a business invoice, give your GSTIN when you pay.
• A checkout left unpaid for 30 minutes lapses, and nothing is charged.

Refunds:

• You can have a full refund of any payment within 7 days of paying, counted from the day you paid: until the end of the day 7 days after it, India time (paid on 1 October 2026, until the end of 8 October 2026). Ask us in those days: tap Ask for a refund on the payment (Me, then Settings, then Payments), or write to us in Me, then Settings, then Help and support, choosing Payments and refunds. A refund you asked for in time is given even if we answer after the 7 days.
• What a payment bought ends when it is refunded: a refunded membership makes you a viewer again (what you posted stays, and your products are paused, still yours, until you are a member again), a refunded plan takes its time away, and a refunded upgrade turns that time back into Premium. We issue a credit note against the invoice.
• The money returns to how you paid, through Razorpay, in the time your bank or payment method takes.
• If we take a payment and cannot give you what it was for, we refund it in full.
• If you dispute a payment with your bank instead and the dispute is decided in your favour, what it bought ends as it would with a refund.
• After 7 days a payment is not refundable unless you asked in time, except where the law requires.

When you join, you agree to the community guidelines:

• Be yourself: use your real name and photo, one account per person.
• Be respectful: disagree with ideas, not with people; no harassment, hate or personal attacks.
• Give before you ask: share what you know; no pitches, spam or sales messages nobody asked for.
• Keep confidences: what people tell you in private stays private; never share someone's details or messages without their permission.
• Keep it honest: no made-up numbers, misleading claims or pretending to be someone else; report anything that breaks these rules.

You must not post, send or share anything that:

• belongs to someone else and that you have no right to share;
• is obscene or pornographic, invades someone's privacy (including their bodily privacy), or insults or harasses anyone on the basis of their gender, race, ethnicity, religion or caste;
• harms children in any way;
• infringes a patent, trademark, copyright or other right;
• deceives or misleads people about where it comes from, or is false or misleading information you know to be untrue;
• impersonates another person or organisation;
• threatens India's unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty, its relations with other countries, or public order, or incites any offence;
• promotes money laundering, illegal gambling or betting;
• contains a virus or any code meant to damage or interfere with a computer or with Founder Circle;
• breaks any law.

You also must not:

• send spam or unwanted promotions, or use Founder Circle to collect other members' personal data;
• try to get into accounts or systems you have no right to, disrupt or overload Founder Circle, or copy it by automated means;
• buy, sell or swap upvotes, reviews, helpful marks or contribution points, or earn them unfairly;
• review a product you are on the team of, or post fake reviews or feedback.

What you post stays yours. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, adapt (for example, resize an image) and show it within Founder Circle, to the people it is meant for, for as long as it is on Founder Circle, and to keep copies as our Privacy Policy describes. You confirm you have the right to everything you post.

Posts you share with everyone are public. What you say about yourself, your products and your numbers must be true; other members rely on it.

Founder Circle connects people; it is not part of what they agree. We do not check what members say about themselves, their ventures, funding or experience, and we are not a party to any investment, partnership, job, sale or other arrangement between members. Do your own checks before relying on anyone. Nothing on Founder Circle is investment, legal, tax or financial advice, or an offer to buy or sell securities.

• List only products you are part of making, and describe them honestly. Owners and co-founders are responsible for their product's page.
• Reviews and feedback must reflect real use. A product's team cannot review it, upvote it or test it.
• Contribution points recognise help that other members marked as useful. They have no money value, cannot be transferred or exchanged, and we may recalculate or remove points earned unfairly or for content that is removed.

A community's admins and moderators can remove posts and members within their community, and must follow these Terms when they do. Founder Circle staff can moderate any community. Chats are for genuine conversation: the guidelines apply to them too. A plan's allowance of new people is for meeting people, never for sales messages nobody asked for, and anyone can choose to hear only from people they know (our staff can still reach them).

Any member can report a post, poll, comment, product or review. We may hide or remove content, or suspend or close an account, that breaks these Terms or the law, or to protect members or Founder Circle. If you want to know why, or think we got it wrong, write to us from Help and support or, if your account is suspended, at hello@transcybernetics.com.

Founder Circle, its software, design and name belong to Transcybernetics Private Limited or its licensors. You may use Founder Circle as these Terms allow, and nothing more. If you send us ideas or feedback about Founder Circle, we may use them without owing you anything.

Members share links to other websites and YouTube videos. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for them; their own terms apply. Signing in with Google is also subject to Google's terms.

Founder Circle is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. We do not promise it will always be available or free of errors, or that anything members post is accurate.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for loss of profits, data, business opportunities or goodwill, including from dealings between members. Our total liability for any claim relating to Founder Circle is limited to the amount you paid us for it, if any, in the twelve months before the claim.

You can delete your Founder Circle account at any time from Me, then Settings; our Privacy Policy says what that removes and what stays. Deleting it ends your membership and any plan time left, with no refund: ask for one first if you paid within the last 7 days. We may suspend or close an account as described above. The sections on your content, dealings between members, disclaimers, liability and governing law continue after your account ends.

We may update these Terms. The current version is always here, with the date it was last updated, and we will give notice of any significant change before it takes effect, on this page and in Founder Circle. If you keep using Founder Circle after that, you accept the update.

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Dehradun have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, subject to applicable law.

• Grievance Officer: Hari Prasad Joshi, Transcybernetics Private Limited
• Email: hello@transcybernetics.com
• Address: Prasad Farm Nakraunda, near Namkeen Factory, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
• In the app: Me, then Settings, then Help and support.

We acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days. A complaint that content shows you in a sexual or intimate way without your consent, or impersonates you, is acted on within 24 hours. If you are not satisfied with our decision, you can appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee set up by the Government of India within 30 days of it.