Validate the idea.
Step-by-step business-building sprints to eliminate 'analysis paralysis'. Bootstrap the business and get to work, no theory.
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// What you get
Every week you present your progress at a live Feedback Session, and mentors rate it. Most of them have started companies themselves. Between sessions, built-in AI tools help with research and first drafts.
Weekly Feedback Sessions: Two hours, live, with your cohort and mentors
Office Hours: Time with mentors and local leaders when you're stuck.
A Working Group: Peers from your cohort you work through deliverables with.
AI tools included: Research, first drafts and pitch practice, all in the entrance fee.
Oddbox wouldn't exist without the Founder Institute. FI gave me the structure I needed to take Oddbox from idea to an MVP.
Emilie Vanpoperinghe
Founder, Oddbox
Joining the Founder Institute was a defining chapter in my founder journey. The experience, the pressure, and most importantly the mentorship shaped how I think, build, and lead TransTRACK today.
Anggia Meisesari
Founder, TransTRACK
Without Founder Institute, Udemy may have never raised any money.
Gagan Biyani
Founder, Udemy
FI's accelerator was tough, but it prepared me for life as an entrepreneur. The support from local leaders, mentors, and ecosystem partners helped us close our first round.
Renata Redondo
Founder, SleepUp
Global businesses start local, so FI builds sustainable startup ecosystems to help aspiring entrepreneurs. Apply to build alongside top local investors, advisors, and mentors.
If you have an idea and want to build a company, apply to the FI Agentic Program: 10 sessions plus Demo Day, a Playbook generated for your startup, Pitch Gym and weekly feedback from mentors. It runs in 200+ cities; apply to the chapter nearest you or to an online cohort.
The entrance fee for the Tunis cohort is $599 USD USD. It is fully refundable before Kickoff and 75 percent refundable before Session 3. Payment plans are available through Partial.ly (5 percent service fee). Teams of 2 to 3 founders pay 1.5 times the fee and teams of 4 to 5 pay 2 times; the 2.5 percent Equity Collective pledge is per company, not per founder.
Yes. About two-thirds of the way through the program, founders pledge 2.5 percent of future equity to the Equity Collective. It activates only at a qualified financing, carries no board seat or voting rights, and dissolves if the company fails. How the Equity Collective works.
All program agreements are public at fi.co/agreements, including the Entrance Agreement, the only document you sign to enroll, and the Warrant you sign later in the program.
Yes. Come to a free event in your city or online at fi.co/events, where local leaders and mentors take questions, or write to us at fi.co/support.
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