FI Japan/Korea/Taiwan 2025 Fall Cohort In-Person Graduation Party @ Venture

This special in-person gathering will be an evening of celebration, founder pitches, and informal networking, bringing together entrepreneurs, mentors, advisors, investors, VCs, and ecosystem builders from across Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and beyond.

Come meet the graduating founders, connect with the FI community, and raise a toast to the next generation of globally-minded startups emerging from Asia.

Key highlights from this cohort include:

📌 𝟏𝟑 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟐 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝟏𝟐 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

📌 𝟔𝟎+ 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟒 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲.

📌 𝟐𝟐 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 (𝟏𝟑 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 + 𝟗 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬).

📌 𝟒𝟎+ 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐭𝐨-𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟑+ 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫.

📌 𝟑𝟎+ 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟎𝟎+ 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦.

You can check our Founder’s Testimonial from previous cohorts here- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPkRPOjzO2Swodw0a8TUIfOcDSK6h7MhM&si=1m2MsiiXvOG0950A 

Venue: Venture Café Tokyo

Agenda:

-Founder Institute & Co-host Organization Introduction
-Graduate Founder’s Startup Pitches (5 mins each)
-Mentor & Alumni Introduction
-Graduation Celebration
-Networking

Moderators:

- Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan

- Yu Li Shein, Co-Director, Founder Institute Korea/Japan & /Taiwan Co-founder, COO, Openfor.co, inc

Graduating founders:

• Alican Yıldızalp, Founder at Miriel AI

• Brenda N. Wang, Founder at ZENYA

• Leonid Posadskov, Founder at Luminari Inc.

• Jade Liao, CEO & Co-Founder at Mishkan Limited

• Paul Conversy, Founder at InsightMatches

• Hanna Jaff, Founder at FamLink

• Ray Ma, Founder at Kevoes

• Maryana S. Igoryvna, Founder & CEO at Unwind Minds

• Prumsodun Ok, Founder at Bodhikara Ventures

• Mingyun Guan, Founder & CEO at Atolla Ocean

• John Heinemann, Founder at flixfluent

• Julio Alejandro Calanche - MBA, Founder at SABI (by Sales Done Right Japan)

• Jeff G., Founder at P4k International, Inc

Mentors who will attend:

-TBD

Who Should Attend?

- Startup founders exploring acceleration and global expansion

- Investors, VCs, and corporate innovation leaders

- Mentors, advisors, and ecosystem builders

- Anyone interested in supporting early-stage founders and meeting emerging startups

About Organiser:

-Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.

-FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.

-Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.

-Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!

- Venture Cafe Tokyo: A community where various innovators, including entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and students, gather, connect, and create innovation in society through a variety of programs