The phrase "and attempted to found" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to establish or create something, such as an organization, institution, or movement.
Example: "The group gathered to discuss their vision and attempted to found a new community center to serve local families."
Alternatives: "and tried to establish" or "and sought to create".
After the Priestleys died, their home remained in private hands until the turn of the 20th century, when George Gilbert Pond, a professor from what is now Pennsylvania State University, bought it and attempted to found the first Priestley museum.
After the Thirty Years' War, Frederick William tried to acquire finances to rebuild the country by participating in oversea trade, and attempted to found a Brandenburg-Prussian East Indies Company.
Gündogan himself was almost on the scoresheet next, bringing a full-stretch save from Sommer after Kevin De Bruyne had escaped down the right and attempted to find Agüero in the area.
Using data from geochemistry, astrophysics, and nuclear physics, he worked on an estimate of the relative cosmic abundances of the elements and attempted to find a relationship between the stability of the different isotopes and their occurrence in the universe.
We assessed the survival for prehospital CPR in our trauma system and attempted to find prehospital predictors of mortality.
To compile images for the exhibition and its accompanying photo book, Wong regularly visited the same street spot and attempted to find new ways of seeing it.
The German ships turned for the south after fruitlessly firing torpedoes at 6 00 and attempted to find shelter in the mist.
We then collapsed across cue types and attempted to find a relationship between performance and self-report visual change.
We have examined differentially expressed genes with at least 2-fold changes between cancer and corresponding control tissues across all seven cancer types and attempted to find those genes common to multiple cancer types.
