Below is an August 2021 alumni milestone report featuring updates from Founder Institute portfolio companies across the globe. See the most recent alumni funding news and top media features of the past month, online event replay videos of founder interviews and insightful webinars, as well as a list of the upcoming FI global events taking place the rest of this month in September, 2021.
Alumni Funding + News Highlights:
- Involve.ai (FI San Diego) raises $16M Series A for using AI to make the world more Customer-Centric
- Refactr (FI Seattle), a cybersecurity and DevOps automation platform, acquired by Sophos
- Zowasel (FI Lagos), an agritech startup, receives $100K funding from Guinness and Promasidor at the UN World Food Programme’s Zero Hunger Sprint
- Braze Mobility (FI Toronto), a maker of sensors for powered wheelchairs, joins Google For Startups Accelerator’s Women Founders Class of 2021
- Patient Orator (FI New York) wins Allscripts’ Health IT Challenge to Elevate SDOH Data Exchange in pursuit of health equity
- AkooBooks Audio (FI Accra), an audiobook mobile app for listening to African stories, wins Woman In Tech Startup of The Year Award presented by Women in Tech Africa
- Esusu co-founder Abbey Wemimo (FI San Francisco), a startup helping renters to build credit, profiled in Inc.com for solution to helping 45 Million Americans who lack credit scores
- Fund That Flip (FI New York) Takes the Work of Real Estate Investment and Moves it Online, profiled by Yahoo Finance after making Inc 5000 list for 3rd consecutive year
- Udemy (FI Silicon Valley) and Carbon Health Founder Eren Bali, both of which are Billion-Dollar companies, profiled in Inc.com for plan to fix American healthcare
- Logivan (FI Hanoi), a shipping logistics provider, 1 of 4 Vietnamese startups named in the latest version of the “Forbes Asia 100 to Watch” list
- Quin AI founder Gulsah Gulser (FI Turkey), a SaaS & e-Commerce startup, featured in Microsoft's Startup Garage podcast
Are you a pre-seed stage entrepreneur working to achieve startup traction or funding? Apply here to join the virtual Founder Institute accelerator program nearest you.
August 2021 Featured Alumni Videos
Global Alumni Panel featuring Cheryl Netterfield of POMMe-Health, Luis Andres Hernandez of TienditApp, and Matt Riback of Dreamfully
August 2021 Featured Webinars
How to Manage Startup Equity, featuring Adam Spector of AbstractOps and Neil Tiwari of Pulley
How to Be a Better Angel Investor: Lessons Learned from Around the World, featuring Ivelin Ivanov, Sasha Bezuhanova, and Lance Cottrell
Universal Lessons Building Startup Communities Around the Globe, featuring FI mentors and leaders Eileen Brewer, Laura Bryce, Eva Dimitrova, and Paloma Lecheta
Startup Idea Fest: How to Build and Share Ideas with Potential Customers
Join us at a September 2021 Online Startup Event:
- September 1st - Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner, Online
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September 2nd - VIP Alumni Networking Summit + Angel Investor AMA, with Lance Cottrell (*Exclusively for Alumni and currently Enrolled founders)
- September 15th - Global Alumni Panel: Meet Portfolio Companies and Ask Questions
- September 16th - VIP Alumni Networking Summit + AMA on Startup PR, with Conrad Egusa (*Exclusively for Alumni and currently Enrolled founders)
- September 22nd - Startup Best Practices with Phil Libin, and Silicon Valley FI Graduation
- September 29th - Online Startup Idea Fest: Build and Share Ideas with Potential Customers
Are you a pre-seed stage entrepreneur working to achieve startup traction or funding? Apply here to join the virtual Founder Institute accelerator nearest you.
Graduates of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.
