# 2025 Founder Retreat

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[2025 Founder Retreat](/content/events/2025-founder-retreat/index.html)

Guerneville, CA ·  
May 7, 2025

[See Event](/content/events/2025-founder-retreat/index.html)

We recently hosted our annual NextView Founder Retreat in the beautiful Russian River of Sonoma County. It was an incredible multi-day event that brought together portfolio founders from a wide array of industries, geographies, stages, and walks of life 🌲⛺️🛶

This was our second time running the retreat, yet the goal remained the same: create an environment that allows each founder the opportunity to meet their ‘founder soulmate.’ Someone to connect with, confide in, lean on, and laugh with for years to come 🫂🫀🫁🔥

To achieve this goal of founder connectivity, we traded brand-name speakers for intimate coaching circles. We swapped stuffy conference rooms for forest bathing and breathwork. We exchanged boardrooms for bocce ball and bubble games 🫧🏈🏐🪀🏓🏸

To [Britton Winterrose](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittonwinterrose/) and the rest of the [Microsoft for Startups](https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoftforstartups/) team, thank you for being the best partners to our team and NextView founders. You ensured we had a top-tier retreat kickoff (the local winery features didn’t hurt, either!) ⚡️🥂🏹🥇

And last but not least, to the NextView founders. Thank you for showing up and being so present, so open, and so engaged. We are proud to know and back each and every one of you. As we always say, until next year 📆🪩💡🛶🚀✨

**Sponsor: [Microsoft for Startups](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups)**

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