A decompression residency for founders on the Oaxacan coast. Rest first. No pitches. Investors present as peers.
If you’ve been falling fast, come and land soft.
A U-turn isn’t failure. It’s the moment you stop, look up, and choose a better direction — with everything you’ve already learned still in your hands. U Turn is built for that moment: for founders who’ve run so long they’ve forgotten they’re allowed to stop. No demo days. No decks. Just a place on the coast to put the engine in neutral, breathe, and come back to yourself — and to the people who’ll walk the next stretch beside you.
Before strategy, before introductions, before anything — sleep, ocean, real food, and an empty calendar. The body leads; the mind follows.
No demo days, no decks. The people who fund and back founders come as guests, not judges. What forms, forms over dinner and surf.
Founder or investor, you sit at the same table and ride the same waves. You owe no one a single conversation about work.
We keep the room intimate on purpose. The brand is the filter; the people in it are the point.
On the calm southern sand of Puerto Escondido — away from the noise, on the water. Built of bamboo, grounded in stone, run on sun and rain, dissolving into the landscape. A place that disappears into the coast, with somewhere always open under the sky.
Surf at the door. Bamboo overhead. Granite underfoot. The Pacific in front of you.
Stay long enough to actually stop. Everything taken care of, so you don’t have to think.
A week to a month, fully taken care of, so the only thing left to do is rest.
Founders come to rest. Investors come to rest too — and to be human alongside the people they back. Nobody’s selling, nobody’s judging. Relationships form the way real ones do: slowly, over shared days, with no transaction in the room.
Come tired. Leave restored, with a clearer head and, if you’re lucky, a few people who get it. Pre-seed to Series A, no pitch required — just you.
Step out of the judging seat. Spend real time with founders as people, not deals. The best relationships you’ll make won’t happen in a meeting.
Tell us a little about yourself. We keep cohorts small, so this is a conversation, not an application — no pitch, no pressure.
No spam. We’ll only reach out about U Turn.