Welcometo your village
Seven years ago I started cooking dinner for strangers in my SF apartment because I didn't know how else to make friends in my city. Tribe is what that turned into — clubs, spaces, experiences, and trips bringing together thousands of people to adventure, play, grow, and connect.
Underneath it all, we're building the social infrastructure to transform cities into villages, merging the best of hospitality, tech, and media in service of one feeling: you belong here. And we're just getting started.
Our Why
They deliver anything to your door in twenty minutes, but it takes years to find someone who'll show up when it matters. They filled buildings with amenities and called it housing, but left out the connection that makes it home. They built the neighborhoods, but we forgot how to be neighbors.
We've lost our village.
Tribe is our rebellion — a collective effort to build it back.
— from the founder's letter · Read the whole thing here.
How we do it
The clubs
Women’s, co-ed, and men’s membership clubs across the country — each one a village of hundreds with something on the calendar every week. This is the deepest way in.
The spaces
Starting with The Bungalow — our first neighborhood living room in the middle of SF. Plant-filled, shoes-off, the kind of room where time slows. Come by, work from here, or host your own gathering.
The experiences
Public, ticketed experiences open to everyone. Summer camps for adults, wellness mornings, kitchen dance parties — curated gatherings that give the world a taste of what we’re building.
The trips
Weekend escapes to week-long international adventures, with people who’ll still be your people when you land back home.
You can’t pour yourself a drink, only for someone else.
Our Philosophy
In a world full of transactional "we should connect on LinkedIn" moments, we come in hot with love. That's the whole point — to give people permission to be the loving, generous humans we were designed to be. Because hospitality is love. The hug at the door is love. "What can I pour you?" is love. "Text me when you get home" is love.
Whether you're new to a city, or rebuilding after friends drifted, Tribe is the friend that puts their arm around your shoulder and says "Come over. Let us introduce you to some people you'll love. We've got you."
PS — You might leave our events with gluten-free brownies.
From the Founder
From crying alone in my NYC living room, to launching women’s clubs in four cities as a man, to finding my way to men’s work — I wrote you a letter to share my journey. Three, actually.
Rafat Khan · Founder
The word tribe is shorthand for our universal longing for community — kinship, chosen family, a group where we're known.
We know it carries more than that. For Indigenous communities in the U.S. and other settler-colonial nations, tribe is not a metaphor. It means sovereignty, survival, and ancestral identity, held through generations of people who were told to give it up. That history is not ours, and we don't pretend otherwise.
We've been asked whether a business should use this word at all. We took the question seriously, and we chose the name knowing what it carries. We use it the way it's used in everyday English, to describe the human desire to belong somewhere, while trying never to be careless about everything else it holds.
Our logo (check out our early designs above) is a simple tent that represents home, belonging, refuge. A tent can be built anywhere, by anyone. It's a reminder that community is not tied to one place. It's something we build.
Messages from our first members for you
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