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 Johannesburg's top investors and entrepreneurs, then apply to Founder Institute South Africa Cohort 5 today.
We will be hosting several free startup events in Johannesburg over the coming weeks, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs all from the comfort of home:
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 Johannesburg accelerator is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Keshni Morar, Jacobus Erasmus and Phumzile Ntola. In addition, some of South Africa's top entrepreneurs will be participating as mentors in the program, including:
- Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
- Allon Raiz: Founder and CEO, Raizcorp
- Andrew Duff: Founder, Duff Attorneys
- Anthony Bizos: Executive DIrector, Tyme Capital
- Christo Olwagen: Owner and Managing Director, OneIntent Consulting (Pty) Ltd and Business Doctors Bryanston
- Craig Corte: CEO, New Media Kagiso Media
- David Jacobson: CEO and co-founder, Synaq
- Eugene Parsons
- Gareth Ochse: Founder, ValuationUp.com
- Gaurav Nair: Founder, Jaltech
- Gavin Symanowitz: Founder CEO, Feedbackrocket.com
- John Campbell: Venture Builder, Redsands Partners
- Justin Spratt: CEO , Quirk
- Justinus Adriaanse: Founder and ex CEO, Private Property
- Magriet Leaper: Managing Director, LiGE (Pty) Limited
- Marco Broccardo: CEO , Eurocom
- Michael Prentice: CEO, Silica Holdings
- Nevo Hadas: Director, & innovation
- Raphael Costa: CEO and Co-Founder, AdTangerine
- Richard Firth: CEO, MIP Holdings
- Shlomi Podgaetz: Director/CEO, Rizasmart Consulting
- Simon Carpenter: CTA, SAP
- Thomas Reisenberger: Legal Adviser, Legalese
- Tony Davis: CEO/Managing Director , Dovetail
- Trevor Ketler: Owner, Ketler Presentations
- Warwick Leaper: Managing Director, Leaper Innovate Green Energies (Pty) Limited
- And many more to be announced.
Since 2009, Founder Institute’s highly-structured accelerator programs have helped over 9,000 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.
Join us in Johannesburg to get funded and build a global business.
Apply to Founder Institute South Africa Cohort 5 today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
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