NOT A CLUBA FOUNDRY
Building the largest founder movement on college campuses.
The CF, in one paragraph
Comet Foundry is a global founder movement — born at UTD, built for every campus. A space for building things nobody assigned you, with people who actually ship them.
No club meetings that go nowhere, no "great idea, let's revisit next semester." Just a room, some people who ship, and a running list of experiments in progress.
Read the full story →Active Experiments
- Foundry Kickoff NightSEP 01
- Peer matching for team formationTBD
- Open critique nightsTBD
- Alumni founder networkTBD
Every university teaches you to get a job.
Almost none teach you to make one.
The skills that separate founders from employees — building products, forming teams, shipping under pressure, navigating failure — do not appear in any syllabus.
They are learned by doing. And most students never get the chance to do them.
Comet Foundry is the chance.
The 9-5 is not the only path. Comet Foundry exists to make the venture path as accessible as the employment path.
Ship real products. Form real teams. Find your co-founder. All before you walk across a stage to collect a degree.
The companies born inside Comet Foundry chapters hire from the same community. The network compounds.
Four Labs
Not departments. Just the four things worth doing here, sorted by what you're actually in the mood for.
Think Lab
Have an opinion.
Network Lab
Meet people.
After Hours
Touch grass. 😂
One name.
One standard.
Every campus.
Every chapter that carries the Comet Foundry name runs the same Four Labs, the same Semester Arc, and the same builder intake process. The campus changes. The standard doesn't.
Show Us What You Made.
All semester, Comet Foundry is building, questioning, connecting, and experimenting. Demo Day is where it all comes together.
You don't need a startup. You don't need a perfect product. You just need something you made.
This is how the movement compounds.
BUILDERS BUILD THINGS
Every semester, Comet Foundry builders ship real products. Not class projects. Not case studies. Things that run in the world.
BUILDS BECOME STARTUPS
Some of those builds become companies. Incorporated, operating, building something real beyond the semester arc.
STARTUPS HIRE BUILDERS
CF-born startups hire from the same community that built them. The next cohort gets internships, co-founder matches, and first jobs. The flywheel completes.
Builds In Progress.
What's being built inside the foundry right now.
Nothing shipped yet.
That's the point.
Check back as the semester runs. :)
SEE THE WALL →The roster is forming.
257 people applied to Chapter 01 before it opened. The first cohort is being selected now.
Builder 01
CH 01 · UTDCohort forming now.
Builder 02
CH 01 · UTDCohort forming now.
Builder 03
CH 01 · UTDCohort forming now.
Builder 04
CH 01 · UTDCohort forming now.
+ 253 MORE APPLIED
Three ways in.
Apply to your chapter.
Find your campus chapter and apply. The next cohort is forming now.
APPLY →Bring it to your campus.
Faculty, admin, or motivated student? Start a Comet Foundry chapter at your institution.
BRING IT TO YOUR CAMPUS →Fuel the movement.
Partner, donate, or support the infrastructure that gives student founders a real shot.
FUEL IT →
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One email. We'll tell you when the door's open.