About Prospectre
Prospectre is a Veteran-owned startup building the first serious networking app for attendees — not organizers. It works at any professional event without setup, integration, or cost on the organizer's side.
Our Values
Mission First
Every decision serves our users' success. No feature ships unless it solves a real problem.
Respect and Service
Lead with integrity and accountability—principles shaped by our Veteran roots.
Team Amplification
Individual excellence multiplied by collective effort. We make each other better and our users more successful.
Adapt and Execute
When the market shifts or users need something different, we pivot fast and deliver.
Founder & Developer
Ryan Larson
"Most networking tools were built to help organizers run an event. Prospectre is built for the people in the room — to figure out who you should actually talk to, not just to capture cards after the fact."
I spent my career at the intersection of AI and complex systems — first as an AI software engineer building intelligent applications, then as a solutions architect figuring out how those systems fit into real organizations. That background gave me an unusual vantage point: I understood what AI could do, and I could see exactly where no one had applied it yet.
In 2025, I attended MilVets25 — a military veteran startup conference in San Francisco. Two days later, sitting at SFO, I was holding a stack of business cards and couldn't match half the names to faces or conversations. I'd spent two days in a room full of people worth knowing, and the tools had completely failed to capture any of it.
What struck me wasn't the lost cards. It was the earlier problem — I'd had no real way to know who I should have been talking to before I walked in. Ninety percent of what happens on a conference floor is random. That's not a memory problem. It's a design problem, and it's one AI can actually fix.
That's what Prospectre is built to do: show you who to meet before you walk in the door, and make sure the conversations you have don't disappear into a pile of forgotten cards afterward.