The Founder Institute, world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, is now accepting applications for the Location Forthcoming Semester.
The Founder Institute Kansai, which first launched in the Spring 2014, recently graduated five technology companies after more than 50 entrepreneurs applied. The news of the Graduation was covered by TechCrunch.jp in an article by Satoru Masuda entitled 卒業率わずか25％、シリコンバレー発の「マジでガチ」な起業家育成プログラムがすごい.
If you could benefit from expert training and advice to launch a technology startup in Location Forthcoming, click here to apply today.
Those who apply by the Early Admissions Deadline (Dec 21, 2023) will have their application fees waived (typically $50) and are eligible for Founder Institute Fellowships.
In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs “learn by doing” and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, aspiring founders are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk.
In order to celebrate the launch, the Location Forthcoming Founder Institute will host a "Pre-Curriculum" of free startup events for the general public:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
Leading the Founder Institute’s efforts in Kansai are Narimasa Makino and Kenshin Fujiwara. Narimasa Makino is a manager at Sunbridge StartUps LLP, where he invests in IT and service companies. Kenshin Fujiwara is a Venture Partner at Miyako Capital, a university-backed VC fund based in Kyoto, Japan, is a founder of coworking space search engine Coworkify, and a chairman of StartupKyoto.com.
I'm a Kansai native, and thus I'm passionate about making Kansai the world class startup incubation center. I believe the Kansai Founder Institute can utlize the consumer electronics, semicondutor, gaming, and healthcare skills in Kansai to grow great startups"
- Kenshin Fujiwara
In only 14 years of operation, over 7,000 graduate companies across 200 cities have used the Founder Institute to validate their idea, develop their plans, refine their product, build an advisory board, prepare for seed funding, and more.
(Kansai photo via Shutterstock)
We hope you will join us in Kansai and launch a company in 2014.
