8 to 16 founders
Foundarc works with accelerators and venture capital firms investing in the human side of their portfolio.
Leadership & team development for startup founders
Develop the founder. Strengthen the team. Protect the journey.
Foundarc is a leadership and team development programme for entrepreneurs. We work with accelerators and venture capital firms to help their founders build the skills, relationships, and resilience they need to lead effectively in their field, in their teams, and in their lives.
Experts, not always leaders
Most founders are exceptional in their field. Few have been trained to lead a team, manage conflict, or make high-stakes decisions under pressure.
Leadership capacity grows
Founders develop leadership identity, stronger relationships, better decision-making, and more psychological safety in the team.
About
The human side of building a company is rarely talked about. It is time to change that.
I am an organisational psychologist, co-psychodramatist, and Chevening Scholar based in Istanbul. I work at the intersection of leadership development, team dynamics, and psychological resilience, specifically with founders who are navigating the human challenges of building a company.
My background is in organisational psychology and psychodrama — a group-based, action-oriented methodology that goes beyond talk. Rather than discussing leadership challenges in theory, founders work through them directly, in real time, in a group, with immediate feedback.
I founded Foundarc because I believe that the most important investment any accelerator or VC can make is not only in a company's product or market, but in the people building it.
Psychodrama
An experiential, group-based approach developed by psychiatrist J.L. Moreno. Participants work with leadership challenges through structured action, role exploration, and real-time group feedback.
Applied sociometry
Maps the invisible dynamics within teams — patterns of trust, communication, influence, and exclusion — before they escalate into conflict or crisis.
Leadership identity with more safety
Together, these methodologies help founders strengthen team relationships, build psychological safety, and restore the spontaneity and creativity that chronic pressure tends to erode.
- Co-psychodramatist, Advanced Level Psychodrama Training and supervision, Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute
- MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology, University of Sussex, Chevening Scholarship — awarded by the UK FCDO
Programme
A structured programme built for the realities of startup life.
Delivered in alignment with your cohort timeline: a minimum of four months, typically up to six, with weekly or biweekly rhythm.
4–6
months
8–16
participants
100%
tailored
01
Assessment
All founders complete validated assessments covering leadership confidence, psychological safety, team trust, and resilience. Anonymity is strictly protected throughout.
02
Conversation
Founders take part in a brief individual online conversation before the group begins — building context and the first layer of trust for the journey ahead.
03
Group Programme
Sessions are experiential and action-based, covering role clarity, conflict navigation, and decision-making under high-pressure founder contexts. Content is tailored to each cohort.
04
Impact Report
At the close, the buying organisation receives a formal impact report covering aggregate team progress. Individual disclosures remain strictly confidential.
- Stronger leadership identity and role clarity.
- Practical skills in conflict navigation.
- Improved decision-making under pressure.
- Greater psychological safety within teams.
- Reduced isolation through peer connection.
- Renewed spontaneity and creativity in leadership.
- Tangible evidence of impact via pre/post data.
- Formal impact reports at programme close.
- Reduced risk of co-founder conflict and leadership breakdown.
- Stronger, more cohesive founding teams.
- A differentiated, founder-supportive position in the market.
Interested in bringing this programme to your cohort?
Book a discovery callResearch & Insights
The human side of entrepreneurship is the most under-invested area in startup support.
At Foundarc, research is not a background activity. It is central to everything we do. Every programme we deliver generates anonymised, aggregate data on founder psychological health, team dynamics, leadership development, and resilience.
Over time, this builds a clear, evidence-based picture of what founders actually experience — and what genuinely helps — in the Turkish startup ecosystem.
The first report is coming in 2026.
Each year, Foundarc publishes an annual report on founder psychological health and team dynamics in Turkey's startup ecosystem.
We believe that changing how the ecosystem supports founders starts with making the invisible visible. The clearer we can see the human cost of entrepreneurship, the stronger the case for investing in the people behind the companies.
Articles, podcast episodes, and reflections on founder leadership, team dynamics, psychological safety, and the human side of building a company. Updated regularly.
Coming soon.
Contact
Let's talk about your founders.
Whether you are an accelerator looking to embed leadership and team development into your programme, a venture capital firm thinking about how to better support your portfolio founders, or a founder who wants to learn more — we would love to hear from you.
The best place to start is a 30-minute discovery call. We will talk about your cohort, your founders, and whether Foundarc is the right fit for what you are trying to build.
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