Why We Built Netch

There’s a moment most students know well. You leave a networking event, head buzzing with names and faces and half-remembered conversations, and you think — I really need to follow up with those people.

And then you don’t.

Not because you didn’t care. Not because the connections weren’t worth pursuing. Just because life moves fast, your inbox is full, and by Monday morning the evening has already started to fade.

That moment happened to us during our first year as LL.M. candidates at Berkeley Law. My friend and I were lucky — Berkeley put us in a room with some of the most interesting, talented people we’d ever met. Fellow students, professors, practitioners, visiting speakers. Every week there was someone new worth knowing.

But keeping up with all of them? That was a different problem entirely.

After one particular networking event, I found myself sitting in my car recording a voice memo — just talking through my evening out loud, trying to hold onto the details before they slipped away. Who I’d met. What we’d talked about. Who I wanted to reach out to. It felt a little ridiculous. But it worked.

And then I thought — why isn’t there an app that does this properly?

Not just a contacts app. Not just a reminder app. Something that actually understands the messy, human reality of how we meet people and turns it into something actionable. Something that takes that voice memo and does the work for you.

That’s what Netch is.

You record a voice memo after any event. Netch pulls out the names, the context, the details — and builds contact cards, drafts follow-up messages, and reminds you when to reach out. The whole system, automated, so you can focus on actually building the relationship instead of managing the admin around it.

We built it for people like us. LL.M. students, MBAs, young lawyers, designers — anyone whose career depends not just on what they know but on who they know, and more importantly, who remembers them. If you’re a young professional trying to build a professional network from scratch, or someone who hates networking but knows it matters, Netch is the tool we wish we’d had from day one.

Because the truth is, most people already have a better network than they think. They’ve met the right people. They’ve had the right conversations. They just don’t have a system to do anything with it.

Netch is that system.

We’re launching soon. If this resonates with you, we’d love to have you on the waitlist — link below. And if you have a story like ours, we’d genuinely love to hear it.

— The Netch Team