A home base in San Francisco’s Lower Haight where Taiwanese founders live, build, and belong.
LIVE WITH YC & 500 GLOBAL FOUNDERS·LOWER HAIGHT, SF
SCROLLA shared home where you don't just get a room — you get direct access to experienced founders, their networks, and the whole Silicon Valley ecosystem.
Formosa Founders House is a hacker house for Taiwanese founders: a real co-living space where people actually live together. You’re not just renting a room. You’re joining a home built by founders, with a direct line into Silicon Valley’s network and resources.
Recent moments
Real weeknights, workshops, and founder conversations — captured by the people who were there.
Your housemates are founders backed by top VCs like YC and 500 Global.
Learn firsthand how to fundraise, find customers, and make it in Silicon Valley.
Meet investors and key people through your housemates’ networks.
What takes others a year to figure out, you’ll learn in weeks.
Hot pot, tea eggs, Mid-Autumn barbecues: a taste of home, far from home.
Why it matters
You don't need to slowly network your way in. You're already inside.
Coming to San Francisco as a Taiwanese founder is hard. The startup scene here is tight-knit and tough to break into, especially across language and cultural barriers.
Most people spend a year or more figuring out how things work here, burning money and time and feeling alone along the way.
Formosa House puts you under one roof with people who have walked a similar path, or are walking it right now. You’re already inside.
A startup, an open-source project, research, creative work, a serious side project: we welcome all builders. What we care about is your drive and what you’re making, not your title or background.
You know what you want and you’re willing to work for it. You’re self-driven. Nobody needs to push you, because you already love what you do.
The magic of this community comes from what everyone puts in. Cooking, hosting events, making intros, sharing what you’ve learned: when you’re able to, you’ll want to give back.
Everyone heads out to work or does deep work at home. No rules, no pressure. You’ll run into each other in the kitchen and catch up on what you’re building and what’s been hard.
If someone cooks, we eat together. If not, everyone sorts themselves out or we order in. Nothing is mandatory, but there’s always a chance to sit down and talk about the day.
Sometimes we host small get-togethers and invite other Taiwanese founders from around Silicon Valley to swap stories, help each other out, or just make new friends.
Practice runs before demo day, advice while you fundraise, someone to listen when things go wrong. Not mentors, but fellow founders on the same road.
Starting a company is a bet on yourself. Don’t wait for the perfect moment, for someone’s approval, or until you feel ready. Execution is everything. Ideas are worth nothing until you act on them.
We don’t criticize and we don’t complain. When you hit a problem, bring a possible fix to the conversation. Being solution-oriented is our culture.
Whether you’re pre-idea or post-Series A, everyone here is equal, and everyone has something worth learning from. Leave your status at the door.
When you’re stuck, pick a direction and move. You’ll always learn more from acting than from hesitating.
Walking distance to Duboce Park, Castro, and Hayes Valley — with easy Muni access to SoMa, Mission, and Downtown SF.
Duboce Park · Castro · Hayes Valley
Muni → SoMa · Mission · Downtown