Collyer & Company
presents
Recess
a founder’s reset weekend
Four sun-soaked days for founders, co-founders and the people who love them. Sponsored by investors who know the best companies are built by rested people.
Next retreat
Fall 2026
Applications open
The pilot
Pensacola Beach, FL
Spring 2027
The room
10 companies
~30 founders & partners
The cost
Sponsored by funds
by application
Why Collyer
Founders build everything — except time to rest.
Collyer exists for the people carrying a company on their backs. We design restorative, beautifully hosted experiences where founders can exhale, play, and reconnect with themselves, their partners, and a small circle of peers who truly get it.
Our flagship is Recess: a quarterly, invitation-style weekend in gorgeous places, underwritten by the investors and brands who back them. Around it, we share honest founder resources and help great teams find their next great people.
What we do
Rest. Resource. Recruit.
Recess
Founder retreats
Thursday-to-Sunday resets in beach houses, villas and stylish campgrounds — sponsored, so founders simply show up.
Resources
Founder resources
Field notes, playbooks and conversations on building well: fundraising, team design, partnership, and protecting your energy.
Talent
Recruiting
Founding-team and leadership search from a former Microsoft and Amazon tech recruiter who knows how early-stage teams really hire.
“The best investment a fund can make in its founders isn’t another dashboard. It’s a weekend where they remember why they started — and who they’re building it for.”
The Collyer philosophy
For investors & brands
Give your founders the weekend they’d never book themselves.
Funds and accelerators sponsor Recess to deepen relationships with their portfolio, meet exceptional founders in a setting built on trust, and show — not tell — that they back the whole person.
Founder notes
Postcards from the reset
A short, beautiful letter each month: new retreat dates, resources worth your time, and roles worth a look. Never more than once a month.