Since launching in Bangalore in 2013, the Founder Institute has graduated over 10 companies in the region, including some of the area's fastest-growing startups like Dotty, HomeConnectOnline, UnBuffer, and more. In addition, our efforts in Bangalore have also been profiled by several top media channels, including The Economic Times, Livemint, and others.
Today, the Founder Institute is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Bangalore Virtual 2021 Semester!
If you could benefit from expert training and advice to launch a technology startup in Bangalore, click here to apply today.
Those who apply by the Early Admissions Deadline (Aug 01, 2021) will have their application fees waived (typically $50) and are eligible for Founder Institute Fellowships.
The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, with over 9,000 graduate companies spanning 200+ cities worldwide. In our four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, you are not required to quit you day job to participate, so you can begin testing and developing your startup ideas without putting your livelihood at risk.
In order to celebrate the launch, the Bangalore Founder Institute will several free startup events for the general public, where you can meet top entrepreneurs and learn more about the program:
The Bangalore Chapter will be led by local leaders Naveen Lakkur (Co-Founder of HomeConnectOnline.com and Director of VIGYANLABS) and Srikanth Bhagavat (Managing Director of Hexagon Capital Advisors).
In addition, some of Bangalore's top entrepreneurs will help teach founders in the program, including:
- Aakarsh Naidu: Founder, The Startupreneur
- Abdul G Sait: Group CEO and venture catalyst, Basket Option
- Aditya Kathpalia: Program Manager, YourStory Media
- Ahimanikya Satapathy: Founder & CEO, DocEngage
- Ajay Goel: Managing Partner, Crestlight Venture Productions LLC
- Ajay Vasudeva: Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Verifylabs, FIICC
- Ajay Batra
- Ajit Veerappan: Founder & MD, ABI-Health
- Alexandra Di Nella: Partner, Productwise Talent
- Amarendra Sahu: Co-Founder, Nestaway Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Amit Kumar: Partner, ahVentures
- An Rag: Chief People Office, Flipkart
- Anand Varadaraj: CEO, Yo2Yoga
- Anand Kadakol: Partner, Springup capital
- Anil Jwalanna: Founder & CEO, WittyParrot
- Anjali Pillai: Head of Entrepreneurial Engagements, Microsoft Ventures India
- Anjana Vivek: Founder Director, VentureBean Consulting
- Anshuman Bapna: CEO, mygola.com
- Apul Nahata: Co-Founder, Kalpnik
- Arjun G N: CEO, ArtPandora,Tudo Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Arun Palatty: Director, Product, Exponential Machines
- Arunabh Choudhary: Partner, Juris Corp
- Arvind Lodaya: Co-Founder, Deccan Center for Innovation and Design
- Arvind Vasu: Senior Vice President, Asia Investments, ABB Technology Ventures
- Ashish Kole: Chief Sales Officer, THE GAIN
- Ashok Pammidi
- Ashutosh Wakankar: Co-Founder, Cracker & Rush
- Ashwin Krishna: Global Marketing Director, Tact.AI
- Balaji Chakravarthi: Founder & Editor, FirstFewCustomers.com
- Balu Masti: Vice President - Global Biz Dev and Eng., Vigyanlabs Innovations
- Bharath Haridas: Lead Design and Marketing, Insurtech and Enterprise 2.0, Plug and Play Tech Center
- Bhaskar Srivathsav: Founder, Furnish Mantra
- Bv Naidu: Chairman
- Chandrakanth B N: CEO, Pairee Digital
- Chetan D'souza: Founder & CEO, KidzByte MediaTech
- Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
- Chiranth Patil: Founder
- Christoph Sollich: Christoph Sollich - The Pitch Doctor, The Pitch Doctor
- David Keynan: Vice-Chairman, Federation of Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce
- Debamita Chatterjee: Dr, ...not yet launched - "in my mind" stage...
- Deepan Anand: Managing Director, Leisure Entertainment Pvt Ltd
- Dr Lakshmi Jaganathan: CEO , IIITB Innovation Center
- Dr Manish Gupta: Co-Founder & CEO, Videoken
- Dr Sujitha Karnad: Founder & CEO, LeadNOW
- Ganesh Shankar: CEO, Fluxgen Technologies
- Gaurav Maheshwari: Co-founder, GetLook
- Gaurav Punjabi: Founder, Rs Financial Services
- Gaurav Dubey: Founder, Home Of Marketing
- Geetha Ramamurthy: CEO
- Geetha Ramamurthy: CEO
- Giri Krishna: CMD, Silvan Innovation Labs
- Girish Krishnamoorthy: Vice President, TCS
- Girish Rowjee: CEO, Greytip Software
- Govind Nallur: Advisor and Startup Mentor, Ruminatee
- Govindarajan VR: Director, Perfios
- Hari Shashank: Head Sales, Entersoft Security
- Jei Narayanan: COO, Black Pepper Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital
- Joshua Rozario: Principal Consultant, The Joshua Rozario Company
- Joy Prabhakaran
- Kalpana Rao: CEO, Pari's Haute Couture
- Karthik Kittu: Co-founder & CEO, Passion Connect Technologies LLP
- Karthikeyan Sundaram: Co Founder, Greendzine Technologies
- Kiran Nadkarni: Founder & Director, Kaati Zone
- Kishore Kumar: Sr Investment Analyst, StartupXSeed
- K . Ramesh Kumar: Founder, Incubators Global
- Krishnakant Naik: Founder, Vayukrishi
- KrishnaKanth Naik: Founder, VayuKrshi Private Liimiited
- Kshama Ravikumar: Partner, Avigna Law
- Kunal Varma: Co-Founder, Consumer Startup
- Kunal Kashyap
- Laxminarayan Kakade
- Liz Alexander: Co-founder, Leading Thought
- Madhur Malik: Founder & CEO, StartupNews.fyi
- Madhusudhan Atre: CEO, VegaShakti Consulting
- Mahesh Baxi: CEO
- Mahmud K: CEO, Doers & Others
- Malavika Harita: CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Focus
- Manikandan Ps: Founder & Chief Architect, Devopstrio
- Manoj Kumar Agarwal: Managing Partner & Co-founder, SEAFUND
- Matt Mandell: Principal, PayCard.com
- Meeta Verma: CEO and Founder , Worksera
- Mikhil Innani: MD , Apollo Finvest
- Mukesh Ghatiya: Product Strategy Consultant, Start-up advisor/mentor
- Mukund Mohan: Director, Microsoft Ventures
- Murali Vullaganti: CEO, RuralShores
- Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy: Director , Sonic Chips
- Natarajan S: COO, Derbi Foundation
- Naveen Lakkur: Founder & Chief Innovation Coach, Institute of Inspiring Innovation
- Niranjan Gupta: CEO, Koruko Solutions
- Niranjan Gupta: CEO, Trip38.com
- Niteen Khemka: Co-founder & CEO, Startup Spine
- Nivedha R.M.: Co-Founder, TrashCon
- Pavan Soni: Founder, Inflexion Point Consulting.
- Pinkesh Shah: Executive Board Member, Institute of Product Leadership
- P K Gopalkrishnan: Angel Investor, Ex-CEO , WeP Solutions
- Poornima Shenoy: Co-Founder & CEO, THE GAIN
- Pradeep N V K: CEO & Founder, Beingtheparent.com
- Pradip R Subramaniam: CEO, Growwtech
- Prasantha Biswal: CEO, International Biotech Park Ltd
- Pratik Poddar
- Raam Anand: Founder, Stardom Alliance
- Rahul Chowdhri: Investor, Stellaris Venture Partners
- Raj Gopal: CEO, Invenzo Labs
- Raj Saxena: Founder & CEO, Cygnet Infotech
- Raja Sekhar Kommu: CEO, ApnaComplex.com
- Rajeev Pathak: CEO
- Rajesh Setty: Rajesh Setty - Serial Entrepreneur and Author, WittyParrot
- Rajesh Kannan: CEO, Compassites Software Solutions Pvt., Ltd.,
- Rajiv Srivatsa: Founder, Urban Ladder
- Rajiv Raghunandan: Founder, SeedX
- Ramachandra Padmanabhan: Vice President, Wipro Digital
- Ramesh Bulchandani: Founder, Atlas Brands P Ltd
- Ranganath S: Founder, Algotricx Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Ravi Thakur: Co-Founding Partner, StartupXSeed
- Ravikiran Annaswamy: Founder and CEO, Innohabit Technologies
- Rk Misra: Founder, SAHYOG - Indian Council for PPP
- Sachin Sandhir: Founder & CEO, GenLeap
- Safdhar Adoor: CEO, SteppinOut
- Sandeep Raizada: VP Operations, Stelae Technologies
- Sandesh Shetty: Partner, Rakchamps
- Sanjay Nadkarni: Founder, Babyoye
- Sanjay Srinivasmurthy: India Head & Director, Silicon RD Ideation Labs
- Sathya Prasad: Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Satyam Bansal: Strategic Alliances, Flipkart.com
- Saurabh Chandra: CEO, Neev Tech
- Shailendra Marathe: Virtual CFO, CFOAxis
- Shanti Mohan: Co-Founder, Lets Venture
- Shekhar Kirani: Partner
- Shobha Shankar: Co-Founder & COO, WWStay
- Shreyas Chandra: Director Deal Flow & Membership, Responsible Solutions Limited
- Shruti Singhal: National Head, Indian Angel Network
- Shwetambari Rao: Senior Partner, KLaw
- Shyam Sundar Nagarajan
- Sonia Sharma: Co-Founder, Pantheon Inc
- Sridhar Turaga: Delivery Head(Technical & Innovation), Mu Sigma Inc
- Srikant Rao: CEO, Affordable Business Solutions
- Srikanth Acharya: CEO, OffiNeeds.com
- Srikanth Bhagavat: Managing Director & Principal Advisor, Hexagon Capital Advisors Pvt., Ltd
- Srinivas Varadarajan: CEO, Vigyanlabs Innovations Pvt Ltd
- Srinivas Njay: CEO, Payjo
- Srinivasa Raghavan: CTO, StartupXSeed
- Srinivasan G: Co Founder, RuralShores Business Services & Dawn Consulting
- Sriram Srinivasan: Advisor, Reliance Retail
- Subash C V: Executive Coach, Regal Unlimited
- Subhabrata Ghosh: Founder & CEO, Celsius100 Consulting
- Sudeendra Koushik: Chief Innovator, Prasu
- Suman Prasad: Co-Founder & COO, Trisys
- Sunil Bangalore: Director - Innovation and Technology Program
- Syed Shujauddin: Co-Founder & Director Operations
- Tej Pochiraju: Director, Jaaga Startup
- Uday Ramachandran: Vice President-India Business Development, Sankalp Semiconductor
- Vadiraj Aralappanavar: Vice President of Product Management, Acko
- Vaibhav Tewari: Co-Founder, CEO, Portea Medical
- Vanishree P Acharya: Founder, Kromaspects SciTec Solutions Pvt.Ltd.
- Varun Agarwal: Co-Founder, Alma Mater
- Vasuki Upadhya: Mr, Wipro technologies
- Veena Sujay: Founder & CEO, Konektup
- Venkatachalam Krishnan: Director, Beyond Square Solutions Pvt Limited
- Vibhakar Bhushan: Governing Board, Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India
- Vijaya Verma: Founder & Managing Director , Yos Technologies
- Vijetha Shastry: Executive Director, TIE
- Vinay Kumar: Co-founder and Rainmaker, Verbinden Communication Pvt Ltd
- Vipul Singh: Co-Founder & CEO, Aarav Unmanned Systems Pvt. Ltd.
- Vishal Ramaswamy: Vice President - Venture Building & Strategic Initiatives, Alteria Capital Advisors LLP
- Vishy V: VP, Shruth and Smith Holdings
- Vivek Boray: General Counsel, Locus
- William Miller: Co-founder and CEO, Values Centered Innovation Enablement Services Pvt. Ltd.
- And many more to be announced.
We hope you will join us in Bangalore and launch a company in 2015.
