Membership at Hillman Hall

Most communities give you access to the room. Hillman Hall helps you build the relationships that matter once you're in it.

Hillman Hall is a membership network for ambitious professionals across the diaspora. Membership is built around Strategic Introductions: connections to people who are hard to reach on your own, matched to what you are currently building.

What an introduction can open

* Capital: Introductions to investors, lenders, LPs, funding sources, and other financial resources.

* Market Access: Introductions to potential customers, partners, talent, career opportunities, industry experts, and people who can help you enter new markets.

* Influence & Access: Introductions to institutional leaders, policymakers, media and cultural leaders, and influential networks that are otherwise difficult to reach.

Where introductions happen

  • At the table. Our monthly Signature Dinners. We place you beside the guests who fit what you are building or looking for.

  • One to one. Tell us what you need and we connect you directly to the right person, in your city or across the network.

  • In Circles. Member-led groups keep the relationship going: Social Circles in New York, DC and LA, and a Founders Circle for entrepreneurs.

What That Looks Like in Practice

Our framework of Dinners, Circles, and Strategic Introductions is designed to turn the right people from “hard to reach” into meaningful relationships:

  • Dinners create proximity: We seated a founder beside an investor at one of our monthly dinners. They continued meeting afterward and are now close to closing an investment.

  • Circles create continuity: A founder who took the Hot Seat in our Founders Circle was connected by a fellow member to a potential investor.

  • Strategic Introductions create access: A new investment banking associate and the head of an investment banking group at the same bank attended Hillman Hall dinners months apart without ever crossing paths at work. Because both were part of the wider Hillman Hall community, we were able to introduce them directly.

In each case, the right person was one conversation away. Hillman Hall creates the proximity, access, and continuity to make that conversation happen.

Membership Details

A 12-month membership built around introductions to the people who can move your career or company forward. Annual Membership includes:

  • 3 Signature Dinners: Access to 3 Signature Dinners anchored by top Industry Leaders. Additional dinners can be purchased at a 33% discount.

  • 3 Strategic Introductions: matched to your current goal, made personally by the founders, and followed through to a meeting.

  • Circle Access: Access to Social Circles in New York, DC and LA, and the Founders Circle.

  • Fee: $600/year beta rate through December 31, 2026. $750/year from January 1, 2027.

  • Payment: Annual and quarterly payment options are available.