Open Collective — Private Partner Deck

01 · Why we exist

A trusted global access layer for those who choose intentionally.

Open Collective exists to create a trusted global access layer for high-value individuals who understand that the right people and the right environments shape better decisions, deeper growth and stronger opportunities. We bring selected entrepreneurs, investors, creators and visionaries together inside curated private environments — not another public community, but a private ecosystem where access, trust and alignment become the foundation for growth.

Growth happens faster when ambitious people are surrounded by individuals who challenge, expand and elevate their thinking.
Business connections are built through trust, shared values and real presence — not through transactional networking.
Extraordinary environments become catalysts for extraordinary decisions.

Members don't pay for a room. They pay for the feeling that these are their people.

The demand driver — a generation searching for curated community after the collapse of third places

02 · What we are building

Not a luxury villa club. A global access system.

The visible product is access to exceptional environments. The real product is trusted proximity to high-value people. Value is created by who belongs, where they meet, and what becomes possible because trust already exists.

Access

A private framework, not a booking product

Members enter curated Gates worldwide through allocation and referral — never through public booking. Access is the membership, not the transaction.

Network

A curated circle

Founders, investors, creators and conscious leaders — admitted for alignment and contribution, never for wealth alone.

Environment

Gates — physical anchors of trust

Owned or controlled estates in iconic locations. Own the flagship icons, control the strategic nodes, license the scalable layer.

Iconic locations. Private access points — not destinations.

03 · The Exchange

Where ideas meet execution — and capital.

The Exchange is the beating heart of membership: a private market where collaborations begin, ventures find their operators, and capital finds conviction early. Every member arrives with something to contribute — the Exchange is where contribution compounds into new business.

Ideas

Offers, asks & introductions

New ventures, partnerships, assets and access surface inside the circle first — posted to the Exchange, matched by curation, moved forward in person at the Gates.

Execution

The talent is already in the room

Founders, operators and specialists sit in the same circle. A concept found at dinner becomes a project with a team — without ever leaving the membership.

Capital

Deal flow with trust built in

Patrons, investors and family offices see curated opportunities early, vouched for by the people around the table. Trust is already established — decisions move at dinner speed.

A deal that would take six months of cold outreach happens over one dinner at a Gate.

04 · The ten-year arc

Four proofs. One outcome: category ownership.

20,000+

curated members by 2036

50–100

global Gates

€650M+

annual revenue potential

€3B+

target valuation range

Years 1–2

Proof of Desire

1–3 Gates · 150–300 members · €3–10M run rate

First Gate live in Ibiza. Founding patrons and the first capital circle assemble around demonstrated demand.

Years 3–5

Proof of System

8–12 Gates · 840 members · €25–40M revenue

Retention, waitlist, governance and the first partner Gates prove the model replicates.

Years 6–8

Proof of Category

25–40 Gates · 5,000–10,000 members · €150–300M revenue

Capital events and the business access layer compound around the same member base.

Years 9–10

Category Ownership

50–100 Gates · 20,000+ members · €650M+ potential

A global Private Access Operating System — brand, platform and capital engine in one.

Twelve estates and 1,500 members are not the endgame. They are the proof that the category exists.

05 · The people

Founders and operators who open doors.

Founder & Vision

Dominik Hoinka

Host of the first Gate in Ibiza and the center of the founding circle. Built the network across the island's founder and investor scene, hosts the gatherings and interviews, and leads curation. The circle exists because people trust the person at its center.

Capital & Access

Manuel Uhlitzsch

Founder and investor with 25+ years building and backing category leaders — co-founder of Web.de (IPO), MyVideo and AMPYA, and an early investor in AUTO1 (IPO), FlixBus and Quandoo. Opens owner-level doors and capital relationships across Europe's key markets.

Technology & Platform

Alex Sidarau

Founder of Zeug Lab. Designed and built Collective's owned operating system end-to-end — the member, operator and vendor portals and the AI operating layer behind curation, scheduling and member intelligence. The club runs on infrastructure it owns.

Growth & Membership

Alex Mrozinski

Growth operator behind the member-acquisition engine. A decade building growth funnels and go-to-market for startups, with product experience at European challenger bank bunq. Turns the referral network into a disciplined, compounding pipeline.

Around the core team: a founding circle of members who act as ambassadors, advisors and door-openers — every member is connected to roughly ten more people like them.

06 · Revenue architecture

Membership first. Everything else compounds on top.

Recurring membership is the foundation — resilient through seasons and cycles. Experiences, partnerships and services layer on top of the same member base. Target mix: 50% membership · 25% experiences · 15% partnerships · 10% services.

Stream 01

Membership dues

Circle €25K/yr incl. 30 credits · Business €75–250K/yr · Patrons €250K–5M tickets

Circle membership at €25,000 per year includes 30 credits, spendable on stays, upgrades and experiences. Business frameworks serve founders, family offices and private networks; strategic patrons bring capital, doors and reputation.

The credit economy

Credits allocate scarcity — without becoming a booking product

Each membership carries 30 credits a year. Credits translate into nights at Gates, room upgrades, seats at ticketed experiences and private sessions. Scarce access is priced in credits, demand above supply becomes the waitlist, and additional credits can be earned through contribution — hosting, referrals, advisory. An internal economy that keeps allocation fair, private and under club governance.

Stream 02

Initiation fees

Industry standard at every club we respect — upfront working capital and skin in the game. A filter, not a barrier.

Stream 03

Experiences & events

Ticketed dinners, founder retreats, advisory workshops and seasonal programming — the heartbeat of the circle, capped at a resilient share of revenue.

Stream 04

Brand & sponsor partnerships

Curated brands fund access to an audience they cannot reach anywhere else — co-branded experiences under Collective standards, never advertising.

Stream 05

Exchange, marketplace & concierge margin

The Exchange carries member-to-member commerce — assets, access, services and deal flow — alongside margin on externally coordinated concierge services.

Stream 06

Advisory, intelligence & content

Member advisory boards for portfolio ventures, a private intelligence brief and the member interview series — high-margin revenue that deepens engagement, builds the brand myth and generates deal flow.

Stream 07

Software & white-label licensing

The operating system itself becomes a product: white-label deployments of the member platform and property-management console for allied clubs, estates and operators — recurring B2B software revenue on infrastructure we already own.

Stream 08

Gate & capital economics

Asset partners and per-Gate SPVs; the operating company earns management economics while membership cash flow buys down acquisition capital.

Base case	Members	Gates	Revenue	Op. profit
Year 1	70	1	€3.2M	€0.8M
Year 3	420	6	€18.9M	€4.7M
Year 5	840	12	€37.8M	€9.5M
Year 10	1,500	12	€67.5M	€16.9M

Illustrative 10-year base case: €45K average annual member revenue, 25% target operating margin every year, €371.7M cumulative revenue, €125M capital buy-down capacity against a €120M asset target. The vision figures above are the category ambition beyond this base case.

07 · Partnerships & collaborations

The circle opens doors in five directions.

Brands

Co-branded experiences

Luxury houses, concierge networks and manufacturers partner for mutual access — a curated retreat carries a partner's name, never a banner. Brand partnerships target ~15% of revenue.

Communities

Allied circles

Founder networks across the Mediterranean and beyond — including the Prima network and Marbella's founder scene — feed a rotating circuit of gatherings between allied Gates and villas.

Gatekeepers

Professional partner network

Lawyers, wealth managers and family-office advisors who each serve dozens of qualified clients. They receive event access and co-hosted client dinners; we receive referrals pre-vetted by trust.

Asset partners

Estate owners become Gates

Owners and developers bring exceptional properties under Collective standards and governance — expanding the network without the capital drag of owning every asset.

Vendors & talent

A live-work staff network

Vetted chefs, housekeepers, wellness practitioners, drivers and estate managers who live and work at Gates in season — recruited and managed through the platform's own vendor funnels, so every Gate opens fully staffed and every member arrives to a run house.

08 · Market & acquisition

Discipline over buzz. Referral over reach.

The private club market is booming — and its two cautionary tales define our positioning. Soho House: 176,000 members, 41 sites, never profitable — scale without discipline. NeueHouse: $83.7M of debt, event-dependent, liquidated in 2025. We are built as the opposite: small, curated, membership-first.

Reference points	Annual	Initiation	Model
Zero Bond, NYC	up to $10K	$20K	Social club
CORE Club, NYC	$17K	$50K	Executive club
R360	$60K	$100M net-worth floor	Investment circle
Collective	€25K + credits	Tiered	Access infrastructure

47:1

LTV to CAC — ~€2.3K to acquire, €108K+ three-year value

92%

retention target — retained members are the referral engine

×10

every UHNW member is connected to ~10 more — the network multiplier

Year 1

profitability by design — low capex, recurring revenue

Why now: the demand wave for curated community is cresting, over-scaled incumbents are consolidating, and AI-lean operations make a global club runnable by a small team. The category is open.

1

Referral & gatekeepers

Members sponsor prospects. Professional partners refer clients. Presence at a handful of anchor events — never advertising.

2

Private introduction

A personal invitation and a private link into the platform — enough for a prospect to see what Collective is and who stands behind it. Nothing is exposed to the public or to search engines.

3

Application & screening call

Alignment, contribution and references — wealth alone never qualifies. A personal conversation before any decision.

4

Curation decision

Every admission must strengthen the circle. The waiting list is part of the product.

5

Member → Ambassador

Onboarding, the private community, the first stay — then members earn status by sponsoring the next right people. Referral is a ritual, not a discount.

09 · The platform

The operating system is already live — built in-house, owned outright.

Most clubs rent their software. Collective runs on a private-access operating system built in-house — three connected portals for members, operators and the people who run the estates, plus an AI agent layer that lets a small team run a global circle.

Members

The member app — Gates, calendar, the circle and the Exchange.

myopencollective.com

Operators

The console — curation, scheduling, content and the knowledge base.

opencollective.app

Vendors & staff

Live-work talent — applications, interviews and estate coordination.

vendor.opencollective.app

A running MVP, not a concept render Real member and operator flows from the live Collective platform.

Live MVP

Collective member home showing the next stay, upcoming events, featured Gate and Exchange — Member home

Collective member calendar with stay dates selected and another member present — Stay request

Collective member view of open and upcoming Gates — Gate network

Collective Roca Llisa Gate details, amenities, rooms and request flow — Gate detail

Member directory

Member identity

Collective calendar showing member presence and upcoming events — Season calendar

Collective Operator OS desktop admin command center

Operator OS · live admin command center

Referral-gated entry. Invite links, magic links and WhatsApp invitations — there is no public sign-up anywhere.
Member portal. Gates, calendar, presence, stay requests and the member directory — who is here, what is happening, how to contribute.
Operator console. Curation pipeline, screening scheduler, referral funnels and campaigns — the whole club in one calm surface.
Property & operations management. Scheduling, staffing, closures, media and a structured knowledge base for admins and staff — the software layer that runs the estates themselves.
Vendor & staff network. Built-in vendor funnels and interview pipelines recruit live-work talent — chefs, housekeeping, wellness, drivers — so help is always on hand at every Gate.
AI operating layer. Agent (MCP) access lets AI tools operate the club under per-token audit — curation support, scheduling and member intelligence with a human at the center.
White-label ready. The same stack can run allied clubs, estates and operators — a B2B product line on infrastructure we already own.
Privacy by design. No public booking, no open application, nothing indexable. The system stays private even when usage feels effortless.

Enter the platform →

10 · Use of funds

We are not raising capital to buy villas.

We are building the private access infrastructure for the next generation of global leaders. Investors finance Gate infrastructure through per-asset SPVs with structured distributions; membership cash flow buys the capital down — €125M of illustrative 10-year buy-down capacity against a €120M asset target. A raise is deployed like this:

Flagship Gate acquisition & activation55%

Secure and activate the first owned Gates through dedicated SPVs — the physical proof, security and brand gravity of the network.

Member acquisition & anchor presence13%

Founder circuits, anchor-event presence and the gatekeeper network that fills the founding circle — CAC stays a fraction of first-year dues.

Capital & legal architecture12%

Holding, IP, operating company and SPV structures, governance and compliance — the separation that keeps the most valuable layers protected.

Platform & AI operating system10%

Harden and extend the owned platform — allocation, member intelligence and the agent layer that keeps the team small.

Operating team & reserve10%

Lean central operations and a disciplined risk buffer — we will never give members 48 hours' notice.

Illustrative allocation for the first raise. Milestones it buys: 70 founding members → first Gate economics proven → first three strategic investors → SPV playbook → the 12-Gate portfolio path.