Eric Kuhn

Founder and CEO FoundersCard

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Eric Kuhn is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of FoundersCard, a membership organisation he started in 2009 and runs from Manhattan. The idea behind it is an arbitrage of scale. An employee of a large corporation gets negotiated software pricing, airline and hotel status, and a travel department, not because of anything they have done but because their employer buys in volume. A founder running a company of eight people gets none of it, despite travelling more and buying more software per head. FoundersCard aggregates independent entrepreneurs into a single buying group so they can access the same terms, and wraps a network around it: signature events, member-to-member benefits and concierge services. The membership now exceeds 350,000 entrepreneurs and business leaders. The company remains small relative to that membership, with a reported headcount in the range of 11 to 50, and Kuhn leads it alongside co-founders and an executive team covering operations, strategy and payments, technology and creative.

Career Highlights

• Founded FoundersCard in 2009 to help entrepreneurs and business leaders grow and succeed, and has led it as Chief Executive Officer since.
• Grew membership to more than 350,000 entrepreneurs and business leaders.
• Built the offering around business credits and preferred pricing on software, devices and workspace.
• Negotiated travel privileges for members including elite status, preferred rates and recognition across airline, hotel and car rental partners.
• Created a network layer of signature events and member-to-member benefits so that the membership itself is part of the value.
• Added founder services including personalised concierge support and specialised business services.
• Established the company in Manhattan with an executive team spanning operations, strategy and payments, technology, business operations and creative, alongside co-founders and founding partners.
• Featured in Fast Company for pioneering an exclusivity and benefits model aimed at the startup community.

Professional Journey

FoundersCard was founded in 2009, and it is the whole of Kuhn’s documented professional record. The company positions itself deliberately as a membership rather than a credit card product, which is a meaningful distinction: it does not issue credit and its revenue comes from membership fees rather than interchange, so its incentive is to make the benefits worth more than the annual cost rather than to encourage spending.

The membership is organised around four pillars. Business Edge covers high-value credits and preferred pricing on software, devices, workspace and other business essentials, which is where the buying-group logic is most direct. Travel Privileges provides elite status, preferred rates and recognition with airlines, hotels and rental partners, replicating the corporate travel benefits a self-employed founder would otherwise lose. Network gives access to other founders and leaders through signature events and member-to-member benefits, which converts the membership base from a cost into an asset. Founder Services adds personalised concierge support, AI-assisted guidance and specialised business services.

Growth has been substantial, with the membership passing 350,000, while the company itself has stayed small, reported in the range of 11 to 50 employees, which is consistent with a business that negotiates partnerships rather than delivering services directly. Kuhn leads from Manhattan with an executive team that includes a chief operations officer, a president, a chief strategy officer who also heads payments, a chief technology officer and a creative director, as well as co-founders and founding partners whose presence qualifies any account of the company as a solo founding.

What Kuhn did before 2009 is not documented in any source reviewed here, and no education could be found. Both gaps are recorded deliberately so that the next reader does not repeat the same search.

Education

No education could be established for Eric Kuhn from any source reviewed for this profile. This is an explicit finding rather than an omission.