New Normal, New Opportunities: Applications Now Open to Founder Institute Chennai Virtual 2022

Founder First, Founder Always. Join us in 2022: Founder Institute is the #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses.

Today’s economic 'New Normal' is full of reshuffling industries, and new problems in need of solutions - now is a time for entrepreneurs to act.

Whether you need to test and validate early hypotheses before making a large financial commitment to your startup idea, or you are ready to push your startup to the next level through aggressive weekly growth sprints to refine your vision, improve key metrics, and prepare for investor diligence, Founder Institute has the proven processes and network to help you do it.

If you could use a structured process that tells you what to focus on when, and a lifetime of support from Chennai's top investors and entrepreneurs, then apply to the Chennai Virtual 2022 Founder Institute today.

We will be hosting several free startup events in Chennai over the coming weeks, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs all from the comfort of home:

How to Acquire Your First Customers with Actionable SEO Strategies : 10:30pm, Apr 24, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/339257
Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
How to Build a Fundable Start-up Brand: 10:30pm, May 20, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/339268
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 10:30pm, Jun 03, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/343403
Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 10:30pm, Jun 17, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/339873
How to Turn your Value Proposition into a Product Market Fit: 10:30pm, Jun 24, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/341403
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder: 5:30am, Jul 02, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/340184
How to Acquire your First 100 B2C Customers: 10:30pm, Jul 08, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/344365
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 10:30pm, Jul 17, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/341300
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas : 10:30pm, Jul 29, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/341613
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 10:30pm, Aug 12, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/344061
Startup Fundraising Q&A: Meet Investors from the FI Venture Network: 10:30pm, Sep 16, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/342313
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas: 10:30pm, Sep 23, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/343509
Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 10:30pm, Sep 25, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/344261
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 10:30pm, Oct 02, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/342000
What is the DNA of an Entrepreneur? Insights from 15 Years of Research: 10:30pm, Oct 30, 2024 (Asia/Kolkata): https://FI.co/e/344559

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Make better, faster business decisions in 2022 by sharing your latest progress, challenges, and strategies for constant feedback and evaluation from our expert mentors and advisors, every step of the way–scale your team, develop new business opportunities, and recruit an amazing advisory board with the world's largest network of international startup founders, CEOs, advisors, and investors.

The Chennai accelerator is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Boniface Pascalraj, Gopi Mattel, and Sameer Mehta. In addition, some of Tamil Nadu's top entrepreneurs will be participating as mentors in the program, including:

And many more to be announced.

We have several organizations in the Chennai Startup Ecosystem as partners who are helping us in helping prospective founders to turn ideas into fundable startups and startups into global businesses. They include

The Chennai Angels
TiE Chennai
E-Cell IIT Madras
KRIA Law
The Atlas Family Office
KRIA Law
Lifeboat Ventures
Maxblox
Peaceful Progress
Razorpay Rize
Shevolve
Startup Experts
Ulaginoli Centre of Excellence for Energy and Entrepreneurship

and many more

Since 2009, Founder Institute’s highly-structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs to grow quickly, know what to do next, and make key connections through the largest community of startup advisors in the world.

It all starts with our renowned ‘FI Core’ accelerator, which pushes founders at the idea and pre-seed stages to reach the milestones needed for investment and sustained growth. Alumni of FI Core then receive free access to our advanced ‘Founder Lab’ accelerators for years to come, and can get matched with prospective investors in the FI Venture Network - a collection of global funds actively investing in the earliest rounds of funding.

The results speak for themselves: FI Alumni have raised over $1.75BN in funding, and are building impactful businesses across 200+ cities and 100+ countries all across the globe. (see the FI 50 Report here).