Failsafe Alliance · 501(c)(4)
Change the system to makecreative risk-taking survivable.
The policy and advocacy arm of Failsafe. We represent the most ambitious builders, artists, and makers in the world — and we work to change the rules that decide whether they get to keep building.
2,400+ builders represented·12 briefs filed·19 jurisdictions engaged
Mission
We advance public policies that make entrepreneurship more resilient, innovation more durable, and failure less catastrophic — modernizing the systems that shape how builders start, operate, and rebuild.
What we’re fighting for
Campaigns
Efficient infringement
Ending the calculus that lets the powerful take a builder's work and treat the lawsuit as a line item. We fight for creators who can't out-spend a giant.
Cleaner wind-downs
Modernizing dissolution and bankruptcy so a failed company can close with dignity — not years of personal ruin for the people who tried.
Health-care continuity
Coverage that survives a company's collapse, so losing a venture never means losing care in the moment you need it most.
Pro-innovation reform
A durable, forward-looking policy agenda that treats building as a public good and failure as survivable, not disqualifying.
Flagship · In formation
The Failsafe
Defense Fund
A dedicated instrument to defend builders where the system fails them — confronting efficient infringement, pursuing broad pro-innovation reform, and standing behind founders and creators who cannot stand alone.
The coalition
Founders, artists, investors, workers, and institutions — standing together, because durable reform is never won alone.
Newsroom
View all press →- Jun 2026Amicus
Brief filed in support of independent creators facing efficient infringement.
Filed jointly with a coalition of makers before the Ninth Circuit.
- May 2026Testimony
Statement to the subcommittee on modernizing small-business wind-downs.
On dissolving a failed company without ruining the people who built it.
- Apr 2026Statement
On why a country that punishes failure discourages the building it depends on.
Our founding position on failure as survivable, not disqualifying.
- Mar 2026Coalition
Founders, investors, and workers announce a shared agenda for durable innovation.
The opening slate of the coalition's policy platform.
Failsafe works as a system in harmony. The Foundation helps builders stabilize, the Institute advances the knowledge, the Alliance changes the system, and the Fund backs the comeback.