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The Founder Institute is the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator. Build your business alongside top local startup experts invested in your success, and through a proven and structured process. Learn More
Apply to the ProgramProven Results
Leaders of the world's fastest growing companies have used our program to raise funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. The scale of our successful alumni is unprecedented.
See our Graduates3,100+
Companies
Launched
$700M+
Funding by
Graduates
$20B
Estimated
Portfolio Value
Stronger Together
Through a unique Equity Collective, the Founder Institute creates strong local communities where Graduates, Directors, and Mentors all receive equity in the companies formed. These strong local networks are also connected to a massive global ecosystem that spans six continents.
Learn our Methodology11,000
CEO & Founder
Mentors
200
Global
Chapters
25,000
Jobs
Created
Mentors
More Mentors
Rosemarie Truman
FI Mentor
I'm the Founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation; our mission is to identify breakthrough inventions and maximize...
Ali Sorbi
Principal, Pendulum Advisors
Ali Sorbi is the founder and principal of Pendulum Advisors, a Tyson’s Corner based consulting firm specializing in Financial P...
Genevieve Nixon
Founder and CEO, Planet with Friends
Allow me to introduce myself, I am Geneviève A. Nixon A multi-media artist and entrepreneur specializing in television, fil...
Dave Sandrowitz
Owner & Principal Consultant, Substrate LLC
Dave is a startup veteran, an advisor, a small-time investor, and a mentor via Startup Weekend and The Fort. He is currently ow...
Christina Hedberg
Founder, LiveEdge Business Development
Biotech industry executive that has grown companies, forged partnerships, secured funding and exited. I love building sound com...
Ed English
Chief Product Officer, Higher Logic
For the past fifteen years, Ed has led product teams that brought new concepts to market and created software used by hundreds ...
Events
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How to Create Great Branding & Customer Acquisition for Funding, with Founder of DivX & CEO of CIENCE
- John Girard, Joe Bezdek
- Knobbe Martens, 12790 El Camino Real, San Diego
- 06:00 PM
WEBINAR: Founder Institute Online Information Session
- Ryan Micheletti, Jonathan Greechan
- Online Event
- Various Times
Reunião VIP para Mentores e para as Startups Aprovadas no Programa de Mentoria
- Bruno Okamoto, Camilla Padua, Diego Simon, Felipe Brasileiro
- WAYRA BRASIL - UNIDADE SAO PAULO, Rua Martiniano de Carvalho, 851, São Paulo
- 06:30 PM
The Global Network
See the NetworkThe Founder Institute operates across 200+ cities and 6 continents. We are #FIworldwide, because great companies can be built anywhere.
