Seattle Founder Institute testing demand for a new Spring 2015 Semester

Since launching in Seattle in 2011, the Founder Institute has graduated over 65 companies in the region, including some of the area's fastest-growing startups like Pethub, Memetales, Puzzazz, OnContracting, ReadyPulse, Litesprite, SnapSwap, Writer.ly, and more. In addition, our efforts in Seattle have also been profiled by several top media channels, including the Seattle Times, Geekwire, Xconomy, and The Puget Sound Business Journal.

Today, the Founder Institute is excited to announce that we are exploring a new semester launch in Seattle for the Spring 2015!

Help us bring a new semester to Seattle! Please fill out an Interest Form by our early deadline (Sunday, February 15th). The Founder Institute will formally launch a new semester if we see sufficient interest.

The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, with over 7,000 graduate companies spanning 200+ cities worldwide. In our four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, you are not required to quit you day job to participate, so you can begin testing and developing your startup ideas without putting your livelihood at risk.

Over the next few weeks, the Seattle Founder Institute will several free startup events for the general public, where you can meet top entrepreneurs and learn more about the program:

Founder Showcase: Startup Pitch & Networking Event: 10:00am, Apr 18, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/337995
Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
How to Acquire Your First Customers with Actionable SEO Strategies : 10:00am, Apr 24, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343829
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 10:00am, Apr 29, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343833
Co-Founders Connect: Find a Business Partner Online: 5:00pm, May 01, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343835
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas (Interactive Online Event): 10:00am, May 08, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343836
Startup Founders’ Guide to Building an Effective Go-To-Market Strategy: 10:00am, May 15, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343839
How to Build a Fundable Start-up Brand: 10:00am, May 20, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/338816
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder: 5:00pm, May 22, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343842
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 5:00pm, May 27, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/339413
How to Quickly Establish Safe, Reliable, and Compliant AI Startups: 10:00am, May 29, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343851
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 10:00am, Jun 03, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343476
Ask an Investor Anything: Q&A with a Venture Capitalist: 5:00pm, Jun 05, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343868
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas: 5:00pm, Jun 10, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/339735
Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 10:00am, Jun 17, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/339945
How to Turn your Value Proposition into a Product Market Fit: 10:00am, Jun 24, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341485
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder: 5:00pm, Jul 01, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/340256
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 5:00pm, Jul 15, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341272
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 10:00am, Jul 17, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341371
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 5:00pm, Jul 22, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343986
How to Build a Personal Brand: The Startup Founders Guide to Thought Leadership: 10:00am, Jul 24, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343685
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas : 10:00am, Jul 29, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341700
Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 5:00pm, Aug 05, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341892
Pitch Lounge: Practice Pitching Your Business Idea to Startup Experts : 5:00pm, Aug 19, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341760
Ask an Investor Anything: Q&A with a Venture Capitalist: 5:00pm, Aug 26, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/341825
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder: 5:00pm, Sep 02, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343266
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 5:00pm, Sep 09, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/344233
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 10:00am, Sep 16, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342395
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas: 10:00am, Sep 23, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343582
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 10:00am, Oct 02, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342079
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 5:00pm, Oct 14, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342472
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder : 10:00am, Nov 04, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/343369
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 5:00pm, Nov 06, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342177
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 10:00am, Nov 27, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342572
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 10:00am, Dec 02, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342279
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 5:00pm, Dec 23, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/342654

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The Seattle Chapter will be led by local leaders Maria Dykstra (Startup Advisor, Entrepreneur, and Managing Director of TreDigital) and Ram Valliyappan (Social Entrepreneur, and Senior Manager at Groupon).

In addition, some of Seattle's top entrepreneurs have showed interest in mentoring the next Seattle program, including:

Adam Mangone: CEO , Mangone Ventures
Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
Alain Raynaud: CEO, FairSoftware
Albert Lam: Partner, Dorm Room Fund
Aleksandra Manuilova: Senior Portfolio Development Manager, Microsoft
Amit Gupta: Sys Dev Manager, Amazon
Amy Hutchins: Founder, Chief Product Officer, Unearth Technologies, Inc.
Amy Swanson: CEO & Co-Founder, Ultropia
Andrew Lee: CEO, Esper
Andrew Klein: Founder, Zccounting
Andy Herman: Founder, Signtag Corp.
Anisha Vinjamuri: Founder & President , boza
Aracelis Nass: Senior Business Program Manager, Microsoft
Aswin Pranam: Sr. Product Manager, UVC Partners
Audrea Fink: Sales Coach & Strategist, mConnexions
Aviv Shalgi: CEO, Solar Simplified
BARRET NEWBERRY: CEO, Leasera
Ben Rush: Business, Pioneer Square Labs
Bill Bromfield: Partner, Fenwick & West
Bill Bryant: General Partner, Threshold Ventures
Bob Crimmins: General Partner, Startup Haven Ventures
Brandon Zhang: Business Analyst II, Amazon.com Services Llc
Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Syntoniq
Bryan Rutberg: Partner, AG Consulting Partners
Candice Dietz: Founder, Givespace
Chandler Lewis: Founder, 360 Social Impact Studios
Charles Kwon: Managing Partner, Concitor
Cheale Villa: Founder, CEO + Visionary Rabbit, Visual Caffeine
Chinara Askerzade: Managing Partner at PocketVC early-stage VC, PocketVC Studio and PocketVC Technologies Inc
Chloe Feingold: Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
Chris Kelley: Principal, DFJ
Chris Haberle: Principal Product Marketing Manager, AWS
Chris Bruno: Owner, X2Y Strategic Advisors
Christina Lomasney: Director of Commercialization, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Christy Johnson: CEO, Artemis Connection, Inc
Claire Mc Taggart: Founder & CEO, Square Peg Hires
Clare Gould: Founder & CEO, Your Vesa
Claudius Mbemba: Venture Investment Director, Startup Haven
Cody Birkland, Ultropia
Colleen Hilton: CEO, Alli Connect
Connor Gray: CEO, Stealth
Dan Fine: Managing Partner, Fine Solutions
Dan Kihanya: Director, REI Path Ahead Ventures, REI
Danl Kasow: Principal, Sorted Solution
Daria Boldyreva: Founder, Wunderdogs
David Anderson: GM, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
David Jorjani: VP of Product and Engineering, Sayge
Diane Najm: CEO/Founder, PhotoPad
Divyanshu Sharma: Software Engineer 3, Platform Security (Authentication & Authorization), CrowdStrike
Edmond Sanctis: Partner, REASON Venture Partners
Elisa La Cava: Investor, Madrona Venture Group
Emeka Alozie: Director, IntuitiveX
Fabian Geyrhalter: Founder and Principal, FINIEN
Fredrick Tsang: IP Attorney, Fenwick & West
Garrett Gross: Product manager, Xemelgo
Gary Gaessler: SaaS Community Builder, Nylas, Co-Founder of CloudElements
Gira Wieczorek: Managing Partner / Co-Founder, Aleberry
Gira Wieczorek: Founder
Glenn Wisegarver: CEO, Sigma IQ
Graciela Perez: Founder & Lean Start Up Coach, Lean Sigma Tech, LLC
Ian Lurie: EVP, Clearlink
Irina Menn: CEO, Hopela
Jake Hite: CTO, Compete to Create
James Hu: CEO, Jobscan
Jana Krystofova Mike: Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at University of California, San Francisco
Janiece Jenkins: Associate, Fenwick & West
Janis Machala: Corporate Director, Paladin Partners
Jay Goyal: President, Actively Learn
Jeff Croft: CRO, Kurvv
Jeffrey McIntosh: Founder, McIntosh Tea
Jen Haller: Chief of staff, Ascend VC.
Jennifer Azapian: Former Venture Partner and Advisor , Loyal VC | Mighty Capital
Jeremy Zaretzky: Managing Director, Founder Institute Seattle
Jeremy Bruck: Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization, Gulp Data
Jim Poss: CEO, Modifi
Joe Bezdek: Co-founder, DivX, Inc.
John Borofka: Founder, Walnut+Oak
John Kinsella: VP Engineering, Not applicable
Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute
Joseph Horsman: Investor, Madrona
Josh Dougherty: Co-Founder & CEO, A Brave New
Julian Fung: Solutions Architect, Real Estate Investor, Qualtrics, Avalanche Assets
Julie Pham: CEO, CuriosityBased
Karin Kidder: Executive Director, E8 Angels
Kate Loose: Investment Director, Capria Ventures
Kate Edwards: AWS Startup BD/Co-Founder at Heartbeat , Heartbeat
Kathleen Baxley: Interim CFO / Strategic Venture Advisor
Kelly Lawton Abbott: Partner, SSM Law
Ken Kranseler: Managing Director, Kabuki Strategy
Ken Horenstein: Founder, GP, Pack Ventures
Kevin Yu: Co-founder & CTO, Socedo Inc.
Khurram Agha: Founder, Aghaz Investments
Kristopher Alford: Venture Capital, Cercano Management
Lainey Lee: Director, Founder Institute
Laura Malcolm: Founder/CEO, Give InKind
Levi Velez Reed: Venture Partner, Loyal VC
Lewis Lin: CEO, ManageBetter
Lindsay Randall: Sr. Program Manager, Moonbeam
Lisa Fernow: President, Fernow Consulting
Loren Kolsloske: Head of New Verticals - Mobility, Uber
Madhu Singh: Chief Legal Officer, Foundry Law Group
Mara Rada: CEO & Chief of Strategy, Feral (thinkferal.com)
Mark Landay: Managing Director, Dynamic Synergy
Matt Mandell: Principal, PayNerd.com
Matt Paulin: Founder , zCrowd
Matt Rubright: VP of Early and Growth Stage Tech, Silicon Valley Bank
Matthew Lickwar: Co-Founder | Growth | Operations | Product, Ynomia
Maureen Ezekwugo: Chief Customer Officer, RealSelf
Maximilian Von Poelnitz: Investment Director, DSM Venturing
Melissa Li: Managing Partner and Head of Community, Dorm Room Fund
Melissa Reaves, Story Fruition
Michael Goldman: CFO, EN 360 Holdings
Mikaela Kiner: CEO & Founder, Reverb
Mike Vandenbos
Mike Cozart: Angel Investor and Startup Advisor, Relumin
Milkana Brace: CEO, Jargon
Minda Brusse: Founding Partner, First Row Partners
My Le Goel: Founder & CEO, Flight Live, Inc.
Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
Oleksandr Pukhalskyi: Mr, SMG
Omi Iyamu: Product Manager, Google Austria
Pablo Casilimas, OneSixOne Ventures
Pascha Scott: Partner and Co-founder, VERTETUDE
Paul Watt: Global Business Manager, Google
Paul Adams: CEO & Founder, Sound Financial Group
Peter Leonard: CEO, Meddle
Pilar Fernandez Hermida: Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand
Pradeep UN: Founder, CEO, Seerflix Inc
Puneet Kohli: CEO, Careerflow.ai
Raja Mawad: Founder, Thrv.health
Rebecca Lovell: Director, Create33
Rob Hillas: Founder, PlainVanilla
Robert Le: Director, FI Seattle
Rohre Titcomb: COO, Female Founders Alliance
Ron Gentile: Founder, Moodfit
Ruth Becke: Founder & CEO, Plantmatch
Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
Ryan Mc Robert: Partner, Fenwick & West
Saikiran Chandha: CEO, SciSpace (Formerly Typeset.io)
Sanjit Singh, Boltt.io
Santosh Khare: Founder & CEO, Touchbase, Inc.
Scott Weller: President, Radian Labs
Shaahin Cheyene: President
Shama Keskar: Cofounder & CEO, VoxAI
Shilpa Sharma: Co-founder & CEO, Flyte (flyteai.com)
Sneha Lundia Agrawal: Founder & CEO, Step2Growth
Sri Kasam: Director of Engineering, Nfinity
Steve Cherewaty: Founder & Creative Director, Abacus
Steve Carver
Suzanne Mills: Biz Dev & GTM - Retail & Fintech, Stealth Startup
Symon Perriman: CEO & Founder, FanWide
Tai Rattigan: Global Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Deel
Tarun Gulati: Founder & CEO, Adios
Taylor Black: Principal Program Manager, Office of the CTO Incubator , Microsoft
Terri Richardson: CEO, Accelerate Consulting Group, LLC
Thibaut Labarre: Founding Engineer, SingleFile.io
Travis Murdock: Executive Vice President, Ruder Finn
Vince Bianco: CEO, Advanced Medical Reviews
Yemi Oluseun: Founder/ CEO - Fintech, SaaS Business Growth, Automation & Change Management, The Change Hive
Yoko Okano: Co-founder, First Row Partners