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:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
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:
- Anu Hasan: Director, AH Positive Limited
- Ashok G: CEO & Co-founder, STARTUP360 India
- Atul Yadav: Founder, Reclayu
- Bharath M. S: Founder, Kria Law
- Bhoo Thirumalai: Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Aspiration Energy
- Boniface Pascalraj: Director, Founder Institute Chennai
- Chandrashekar Kupperi: Founder, ANOVA Corporate Services Private Limited
- Dhenesh R: Head Clinical Operations, Mehta Multispecialty Hospitals India Private Limited
- Dimitris Polychronopoulos: Former Oslo Chapter Director, FI Mentor
- Dr N Raveendran Narasimhan: Principal Consultant, Xsentinel Risk and Claim Advisory pvt Ltd
- Gopi Mattel: Founder CEO, MaxBlox, Inc.
- Jahabar Sadique: Co-Founder & CEO, Chai Kings
- Jay Duraisamy: CTO | SVP Technology , Fiserv
- Kayar Raghavan: Lead Angel Investor, Multiple Angel Networks
- Lakshmidevi Somanath: Partner, Surana & Surana International Attorneys
- Naveen Puttagunta: Co-founder and CEO, Divami Design Labs
- Prabhu Rangarajan: Co-founder, M2P Fintech
- Pramod Harith: Founder, CMO Axis Outsourcing Services
- Rajiv Bansal: Founder, CEO, Opoyi
- Ramkumar Rs: Director, RSR Innovations
- Sam Mehta: Chairman, the Atlas Family Office
- Sriram Bharadhwaj: Serial Entrepreneur, Technologist, Strategist & Mentor, Smartemes Capital Advisors LLP
- Sudhir Ravindran: Attorney-At-Law, Solicitor (England & Wales), Altacit Global
- 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 8,100 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.
Join us in Chennai to get funded and build a global business.
Apply to the Chennai Virtual 2022 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
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