OPUS

20:40 was a professional community for entrepreneurs in the UK, with ambitions well beyond it.

The problem is that “professional community for entrepreneurs” is a category with a reputation. Lanyards, membership fees, a WhatsApp group that dies in six weeks. Plenty of people had been burned by one, and nothing about 20:40 argued that this one was different.

It was different. Early-stage founders were getting real value from each other, at a stage where most of them have nobody to ask. That was the thing worth building a brand around — not networking, but the specific advantage of being surrounded by people two steps ahead of you.

We renamed and rebuilt the business as OPUS. More than a membership. A movement. A global community for early-stage founders who want to go further, faster, together.

Since launch, OPUS has expanded from the UK into the UAE and Cape Town, opened physical locations, partnered with institutions including Investec, and grown its membership internationally.