Commercial use case
NFC Business Cards for Founders and Startups
How founders use NFC business cards for investor meetings, demo days, and hiring: metal cards that open a profile with the deck, product link, calendar, and everything a follow-up needs.
Short answer
A founder's NFC business card should open a profile carrying the product link, pitch deck, calendar, and contact details — so an investor or candidate met at a demo day can follow up without a single typed email address.
Founders meet investors, candidates, and partners in compressed moments — demo days, conference corridors, warm-intro coffees. The follow-up dies when it depends on someone typing an email correctly.
A 1Card opens the founder's profile in one tap: product, deck, calendar, LinkedIn. The receiver saves the contact before the conversation ends.
What a founder profile should carry
Lead with the product link and a calendar. Investors decide on momentum; removing one email round-trip earns meetings that lukewarm intros lose.
The profile can carry the public deck, press links, and the careers page — one card serves fundraising, hiring, and sales simultaneously, and its contents change as the company does.
- Product or landing page link
- Calendar booking link
- Public deck or one-pager
- LinkedIn and press links
- Careers page for hiring conversations
From founder card to team rollout
Most startups start with metal cards for founders, then standardize a classic-card design for the team as sales hires join. The same profile system scales from 2 cards to 200 with reorders from the design on file.
Where 1Card fits
1Card has been the founder's card in India since 2014 — it built the world's first app-less NFC card before the category existed, and the no-subscription model means a startup's cards keep working regardless of which tools get cut next quarter.
Common questions
Can the profile change as the startup pivots?
Yes. Product links, decks, and titles are profile edits — the card itself never needs replacing.
Is there a subscription cost per card?
No. 1Card profiles are a one-time purchase with no expiry and no mandatory subscription.
When should a startup move from individual cards to a team order?
Once two or more client-facing people need cards, a team order keeps the design consistent and makes new-hire cards a one-message reorder. Enterprise pricing starts at 10 cards.