Build a Great Startup in 2020 with the Founder Institute Buffalo Startup Accelerator

Today, the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Buffalo - New York Fall 2025 program!

If you could use a structured process and a lifetime of support from Buffalo's top investors and entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the Buffalo - New York Fall 2025 Founder Institute today.

Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities worldwide, the Founder Institute provides high-potential entrepreneurs and teams with the devoted support network and structured growth process needed to get to traction and funding. Participants in the 4-month core program also get access to a lifetime of support through the Founder Institute's industry-leading post-programs.

Since 2009, the Founder Institute has helped over 7,500 Alumni raise over $1.85BN funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more (see the FI 10 Year Impact Report here).

To celebrate the launch, we will host several free startup events in Buffalo, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs and hear more about the program:

Lessons Learned Raising from Top Silicon Valley VCs: AMA with Rajeev Behera: 12:00pm, May 29, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/372644
Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas: 1:00pm, Jun 02, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/372189
How to Build Your MVP Using Artificial Intelligence : 1:00pm, Jun 04, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/371327
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 8:00pm, Jun 09, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/372240
FI Alumni Panel: Meet Portfolio Companies and Ask Questions: 1:00pm, Jun 23, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/371738
Startup Finance & Banking Basics: AMA with Grasshopper Bank: 1:00pm, Jun 25, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/371937
Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 1:00pm, Jun 30, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/371580
Founder’s Guide to AI: Creating Effective Content with AI: 1:00pm, Jul 02, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/373179
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 1:00pm, Jul 07, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/372316
Founder’s Guide to AI: Building an MVP with No Coding Skills : 1:00pm, Jul 09, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/373308
Founder’s Guide to AI: Using AI to Increase Productivity: 1:00pm, Jul 16, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/373444
Founder’s Guide to AI: Using Agentic Workflows to Automate Repetitive Tasks: 1:00pm, Jul 23, 2025 (America/New_York): https://FI.co/e/373565

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The Buffalo program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Anush Ricci (Director , Founder Institute New York Chapter), Ken Parker (Director, Humans for AI), Lara Hejtmanek (Director, FI - NY), New York Admin (Founder Institute , New York), Reid Hamilton (Executive Director, NYC Innovation Collective), Silvia Lupu (CEO, Hikaro Capital, Director - Founder Institute).

In addition, some of Buffalo's top investors, entrepreneurs, and CEOs will be participating in the program, providing them with expert feedback and evaluation. The list of startup mentors for the Buffalo Founder Institute includes:

Aaron Price: cofounder, rocketfuel.cc
Abdellah Aouf: Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM
Abraham Milano: Cofounder - CTO, Dada Art
Adam Kirsch: Principal, Next Day Hill
Adam Sah: Advisor, Seed Investor, Consultant (ASIC), Secret Weapon
Adam Schoenberg: Chief Marketing Officer , Leiio Wellness / First Person
Adam Balogh: Co-Founder, Vanna Labs
Adam Seifer: Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Everplans
Adebayo Adegbenro
Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
Advait Raykar: Co-Founder and CEO, Elm AI (Formerly Esger)
AJ Kintner: Owner, Mrktplc.com
Aki Balogh: President, MarketMuse
Akshata Philar
Akshay Rawat: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Checkr Pay @ Checkr X
Alex Batdorf: Co-Founder & CMO, ZipFit Denim
Alexander Volodarsky: Co-Founder, 90sFest
Alexander Kippen: Founder, LighTowerMedia
Alexandra Bono: Founder, Pelican Invests
Alexis Beechen: CEO, The Drop
Alice Maglio: Product Designer , Genome Medical
Alison Anderson: CEO and Founder, Succession Matching
Allen Saakyan: Interviewing the Greatest Minds, Simulation
Ambrose Price Iii: Founder & CEO, Ambrose Madison
An Wang: Director, ASW Venture Partners
Anand Gandhi: CFO, Skillshare
Andrea Vossler: Lawyer and VC , Varia Ventures
Andrew Ive: Founder / Managing General Partner, Big Idea Ventures
Andrew Osipov: Founder & CEO, Visual Craft
Andrew Aziz: Independent Consultant, Self-employed
Andy Saldaña: Executive Director/ Co-Founder, NY Tech Alliance/ QueerTech
Angela Fisher: Founder, Neufluence
Angelique Mercurio: Founder & CEO, EnerKnol
Angie Hanna-Bugueiro: Product Strategy Consultant, Self-Employed
Anna Degtereva: CEO & Founder, Happy Farm Business Accelerator
Anna Kozachukhna: Founder & Creative Director, BREATH VISION
Anna La Germaine
Anne Augusta Blum: Program Manager, German Accelerator Tech
Annick Thiombiano, Trading with Africa
Anush Ricci: Director, Founder Institute New York Chapter
Aparna Srinivasan: Founder & CEO, SpotOn
Arcui Usoara: Founder/CEO, Iaculus
Arsen Pereymer: Founder & Managing Partner, Appument Ventures
Ashantha Kaluarachchi: Managing Director, StartEd Accelerator
Aulene De: Software Engineer, Meta
Aviv Shalgi: CEO, Solar Simplified
Ayub Ansari: Principal, Anthesis (Carlyle)
Beatriz Helena Ramos: Founder , DancingDiablo, DADA.nyc
Ben Stacey: CEO, Pitchverk
Benjamin Rollert: CEO & co-founder, Composer
Bhaskar Ahuja: CEO, Sand Hill Road Technologies Fund
Bhuvan Khanna: Co-Founder/EVP, Webonise
Bill Rivkin: Virtual Relationship Manager |non-dilutive funding, Citizens Bank
Bobbi Wegner: CEO, Groops
Bobby Palmieri: CEO, Lilo Social
Bonnie Halper: Founder, Startup One Stop
Brandon Burke: Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer, LegWorks
Bre Pettis: Business Owner , Bantam Tools
Breen Sullivan: Founder & CEO, The Fourth Effect
Brian Stuckey: Principal , CoVenture
Brian Hecht: Venture Partner, ERA
Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Behave Technologies (Formerly Syntoniq, Inc.)
Bryan Janeczko: Founder, Wicked Start
Caitlin Herling: Principal, The Venture Collective
Candace Ohm: Founder, Canz.Art
Carolyn Katz: Public Company Director, Multiple Companies
Caya (Jose) Cayasso: CEO, Slidebean
Changhao Wei: Program Manager, Medtronic
Charlie Tillett: Consulting CFO, 50-50-50 Consulting
Charlie Cliff: CTO
Charlie Kim: Founder & CEO, Next Jump
Cheryl Kallem: Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Chhavi Singh: Co-founder, Flyte (flyteai.com)
Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
Christian Monfiston
Christian Behl: International Business Development, Cognition IP
Christina Sass: Cofounder & Chair, Advisory Council & Alumni Network at Andela, Andela
Christopher Jacob: Founder, Data+AI
Christopher Coyle: Founder and CEO, TAO
Christopher Taktak: CEO/Founder, Doola
Çigdem A Binal: Director, L-Spark/Wesley Clover
Claire Mc Taggart: Founder & CEO, Square Peg Hires
Clara Luo: Head of Marketing Strategy, Deloitte
Clarisse Dr. Behar Molad: CHief Strategy Officer , Whistesteps Technologies
Colin Gallacher: President, Haply Robotics
Conchita Galdón: CEO & Founder / Manager, Puentes Global / Area 31 @ IE Business School
Conrad Egusa: CEO, Publicize
Corey Menscher: Founder & CEO , Perceptive Things
Cory Crosland: President, Croscon
Courtney Brand: Founder of , The Lighthouse
Craig Zingerline: Founder and CEO , Growth Minded
Crystelle Desnoyer: Chief of Staff
DAISY CONROY, Hodge, Inc.
Dan Bratshpis: CEO, Inshur
Daniel Rothman: Healthcare Entrepreneur, Empire Angels / Mid Atlantic Bio Angels
Daniel Nelson: Recovering Accountant, Startup Economics
Daniel Seidman: Founder / CEO, Clean Cloud Solutions
Daniela Pico
Danny Potocki: Founder, Finis Ventures
Dario Anaya: Founder & CEO, GetPupil Inc.
Dav Masaon: Co-Founder, Zanda
Dave Rossberg: Business Leadership Coach, Self-employed
David Rosen: CEO, Acrelic Group
David Olaniyan: Founder, GameBase Inc.
David Postolski: Partner, Gearhart Law
David Odrich: Partner, Pillsbury
David Silverstein: Founder, Ned Helps
David Beatty: Founder, Golden Seeds
David S. Rose: CEO, Gust
Dawn Zappetti: Founder and Principal Consultant, Zap Advisory
Dean Soukeras: Founder, Carster Inc
Dean Hopkins: CEO, One Eleven
De-Ann Abraham: Programs Manager, NYU Entrepreneurial Institute
Denise Bowen
Devin Young: Co-founder and President, Classcraft
Diego Rodriguez: Partner, Magnolia Innovation
Dimitrios Douloumbakas: Owner
Dmitry Shmakov: Senior Software Engineer, Unqork
Don Samoil: Managing Partner, Trusted Scale
Duy Tran: Co-Founder and VP, Koç University 180 Degrees Consulting
Eavan Cleary: Design Director, Burns Group
Eduardo Neeter: Founder & CEO, HyperTunnel
Elise Neel
Elizabeth Tsai: Founder & CEO , HiOperator
Emile Chung
Emily Bell: Program Manager, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Federico Salvitti: CMRO, Stateset.io, NYU Faculty, & United Nations Global Compact Advisor
Frédéric Harper: Senior Developer Advocate, DigitalOcean
Fung Lin Wu: Director of Retention Marketing, MongoDB
Gabe Zichermann: CEO, Failosophy
Gabriel Alin Zainescu: Founder & CEO, Zainescu Consulting
Gary Whitehill: Founder, Numerous
George Likourezos: Senior Partner, Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP
Guc Ozenci: Connector | Advisor, ConnectOp
Gyan Kapur: Managing Director, Bayes Ventures
Hans Kullberg: CEO & Founder, EconoCast
Hara Wang: Principal, Third Derivative
Haris Jaliawala: Senior Product Manager, Vivante Health
Harlan Milkove: Managing Partner, Syntoniq
Heidi Diamond
Helena Fogarty: CEO. Founder. Coach, Chief Growth Officer
Henri Huselstein: Co-Founder / CEO, AUCTA
Hollie Haggans: Manager, Community Relations and Engagement, DigitalOcean
Hugo Renaudin: CEO, LGO Group
Ignacio Castro: Managing Partner, 128vc
Ihar Mahaniok: Managing Partner, Geek Ventures
Inna Wolanski: Digital Innovation Executive, Barnes & Nobles - Digital D2C Division
Irina Berkon: Member, Golden Seeds
Ivan Stamatovski: CTO, Easy Aerial
Jack Sousa: Partner, wiggin(x)
Jack McGowan: Director, Buffalo Angels
Jackie Trebilcock
Jacob Geffner: CEO, BuyMyOrder Inc
Jacob Levy: Associate, SoundBoard Venture Fund
Jae Lee: Founder and CEO, Stealth Startup
James Shomar, Startfast
James Sutcliffe: CEO , the founding network
Janet DeFrino: Principal, Five Mile Advisors
Janet Todorova: Head of Expansion, Founder Institute
Jason Schmidt: Vice President, Global Head of Commercial Data, Condé Nast
Jason Jacobsohn: Managing Director, Propellant Ventures
Jason Shuman: Principal, Primary Ventures
Jedidiah Weller: CEO, OpenForge
Jeff Lindor: CEO, Gentleman's Factory
Jeff Yellin: N/A, Prime8
Jeff Stewart: Managing Director , Global Public Offering Fund
Jeff Brodlieb: Partner, Centricap
Jeffrey Silverman: Co-Founder and Managing Director, Laconia Capital Group
Jeffrey Wald: Founder and President, Work Market
Jeremy Kagan: Professor, Columbia Business School
Jessica Millstone: Managing Director, Copper Wire Ventures
Jie Li: Director, Lair East Labs
Jody Chesnov: Managing Partner, Rosenberg Chesnov CPA's
Joe Daniels: Partner, Co-Chair - Emerging Companies, Partner & Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Johann Botha: Software Engineer, Google
John Dallas: CEO, Enclave Academy and Hillview Partners Network LLC
John Siracusa: Founder, #BankSocial
John Matson: Digital Director, Voyager
John Gavigan: Chief Operating Officer, Cupule Ventures
Johnny Hwin: Partner, Studio Management
Jonathan Grasso: Attorney - Partner, Pierce McCoy, PLLC
Jonathan Miller: Executive Leadership Coach, Level 7 Leadership
Jonathan Ebel: CTO, Verivend
Jonathan Brinson: Co-founder, Reveler
Jonathan Tran: Consultant, Kynetic Consulting (work-in-progress)
Jonathan Hakakian: Managing Director, SoundBoard Angel Fund
Jonathan Lui: Managing Consultant, Beth Thouin Consulting
Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute
Jordan Walbesser: Senior Counsel, Director Legal & Business Affairs, Mattel
Jordan Jocius: Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Founder Institute
Jorge Castro: Co-Founder, ScienceVest
Jorge Torres: Managing Director, VenSeed
Jose Martins: Director , Founder Institute Boston
Joseph Jaffe: Founder & CEO, Evol8tion, LLC
Joseph Shair: Co Founder, Drivr
Joseph Daniels: Partner, Co-Chair -- Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Group , Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough
Josh Kleiman
Josh Williams: Co-Founder, Very Great
Joshua Aviv: CEO , SparkCharge
Juan Lacey: CEO, Farms Close By
Julie Cottineau: CEO, BrandTwist
Julie Campbell: Founder, Center Stage Connections
Julien Lancha: Entrepreneur, CCO and Co-founder, Advizzo
June Barrage: Innovation Consultant, Disruptive Edge
June W Choi: Managing Partner, Serval Ventures
Justin Sherratt: Founder, Sortbox
Kamal Hassan: Founding Partner, Loyal VC
Kat Dey: Co-Founder & President, ettitude
Katerina Dimitratos: Founder & CEO, Meddy Health Co.
Katherine Zamsky: Managing Partner, Carbon Ventures
Kathryn Minshew: CEO, The Muse
Katy Richardson: VP (PR), Publicize.co
Katy Bolan: Sustainability Executive, Google
Ken Parker: CBO, Humans for AI
Kevin Kovacs: VP, Blackstone/GSO
Kevin Dawidowicz: President, CoachMePlus
Kevin Qiu: Consultant, TechEx
Kevin Siskar: CEO & Cofounder, Finta
Kfir Nissan: Founder and CEO, Valid Network
Khalil Zahar: Founder & CEO, FightCamp
Kiran Pingali: Co-founder, CEO, TELK Group
Kirsti Jane: CEO, House Of Luxury LLC
Kristi Gaudioso: CEO, Luminate Consulting
Kuji Chahal: Principal, Plexo Capital
Ladislav Jurić: Founder & CEO, Motus Vis inc.
Lane Campbell: CTO, Vue Ventures
Laura Maiurano: CRO & Co-Founder, Fivefoottwo Marketing
Laura Di Francesco: CEO, Founder, Attorney
Lauren Cascio: Co-founder, Abartys Health
Leandra Elberger: Studio Director, Cornell Tech
Leena Palav: Board Member, Strategy Advisor, Interim COO/CFO, -med devices, health tech, consumer products, robotics
Len Gray: Partner and Co-Chair of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Practice Group, Wiggin and Dana LLP
Lewis Gersh: Founder and CEO, PebblePost
Lindsay Siegel: Founder, LS Advising
Lisa Cuesta: Vice President, NextGen Venture Partners
Lisa Morales-Hellebo: GP & Co-founder, REFASHIOND Ventures
Liz Leahy: Founding Partner, Purple Sage Ventures
Lorenzo Thione: Managing Director, Gaingels
Luca Albertinazzi: Global Evangelist , Startup Grind
Luis Gonzalez: Co-Founder and Partner, Outbound Ventures
Lynda Kommel-browne: Financial Advisor, RoundRock Advisors
Maaike Doyer: Founder, Epic Angels
Maggie Chan Jones: Founder & CEO, Tenshey
Mara Rada: Chief Operations and Strategy, Loon (loonbio.com)
Marcos Polanco: CEO, Deedit
Marcy Borofsky: Founder & Board Member, Smile America Partners
Marina Vytovtova: Product Consultant, Product in Action
Marisa Freeden
Marisa Sweeny: Director, Investments, Generate Capital
Mark DeSantis: CEO, Bloomfield
Mark Milastsivy: CEO, Firstbase.io
Marly Lake: Co-Founder & CEO, Curled
Mars Shah: CEO, Red Rock Capital
Marta Llopis Mariño: Strategy Manager, Clarity AI
Marvin Johnson: Co-founder, Dashible
Matt Mandell: Principal, PayNerd.com
Matt Melbourne: Business Development Lead, Republic
Matt Eventoff: Founder, Princeton Public Speaking | The Oratory Project | Damselfly Ventures
Matt Wills: Co-Founder, Drivr Startup Solutions
Matt Rodak: Founder, Fund That Flip
Matthieu Dejardins: CEO & Founder, NextUser
Maxine Rosen: Assistant Director, Savills
Mee Jung Jang: Co-founder, Jefferson Investors
Meera Oak: Principal, Alumni Ventures
Meghan Messenger: Co-Founder, Next Jump
Mehul Sompura: Founder, Diamond Hedge
Melissa Li: Managing Partner and Head of Community, Dorm Room Fund
Michael Solomon: Co-Founder, 10x Management
Michael Zaytsev: Founder, High NY
Michael Letros: Strategist, FI Mentor
Michael Presser: Investing Partner, Kairos HQ
Michael Fouquet: Chief Technology Officer at Stark, Stark
Michael Diamant: Co-Founder at Cleverpup , Former Founder of Skip Hop
Michael Lapin: CEO, Beginex
Mirjana Perkovic: Founder & CEO, LookStyler
Mitch Wainer: Co-Founder, DigitalOcean
Moe Mousavi
Mohammed Kashif: Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, Department of Motor Vehicles
Mohit Agarwal: Associate Partner, Bain & Company
Mona Yan: Investor, Allport Capital
Morgan Hewett: Co-Founder & CEO, OptionsMD (Techstars '20 Grad)
Morgan Johnson: VC. Coach. , Nucleus Adventure Capital
Morgan Hewett & Kyle Pierce: Cofounders, Options MD
Nadia Shalaby: CEO, ITE Fund
Nadia Genevieve Masri: Founder & CEO, Perksy
Nadia Tian: founder, Bridge Point Capital
Nadine Zerrini: Director, Founder Institute Boston
Naeemah Brown: Co-founder & CEO, BodyElevated Inc
Nana Parry: CEO, Tectonic
Natalya Bagrova: Co-Founder, Art Director, Brand Strategist , Suva Inc.
Nate McCray: Head of Marketing and Growth, Whiskybase
Nathan Minns: Speaker, Facilitator, & Entrepreneur Coach, Green Light Improv
Neha Bhalani: trademark & copyright attorney, CSG
Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
Nia Pryce: Community Manager, Forum Ventures
Nicholas Katz: Founder, RAISE
Nir Markus: Founder, OKpanda
Nitya Nagpal: Co-Director, Founder Institute
Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
Nyamitse-Calvin Mahinda, Vital Audio Inc
Olga Bartnicki: Managing Director, Techstars
Paige Halam Andres: Managing Director, Highline BETA
Patrick Schoonveld: Director, RTB Product Management, Criteo
Paul Breloff: CEO / Co-Founder, Shortlist
Paulo Cunha: President, SeatGeek, Inc
Pavel Asanov: Co-founder, COO, Finta
Pedro Silva
Peter Egziabher: Venture Partner, GVC Partners
Peter Ma: Co-Founder, MixPose
Peter Sopher: Manager, Investments& Portfolio, Clean Energy Ventures
Philipp Chvanov: Chief of Staff, Vox Funding LLC
Pilar Fernandez Hermida: Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand
Qihang Zhang: Senior Product Designer, Chartmetric
Rachel Loui: Chief Strategy Officer, Boehringer Ingelheim
Rachel Kroft: Fractional CPO, Happy Warriors
Rachele Haber-Thomson: Founder, Co-CEO, Blue Dot
Rafael Kartaszynski: CEO, TechEdge Dynamics
Rafi Tanzim Syed: Co-founder and CEO, Fuego Studios, Inc.
Randy Eager: CEO, Aqualibrium LLC
Rapha Danilo: GM & Director of Product, Gong
Rashad Haque: Corporate V.P., New York Life Insurance
Rasu Jilani: Director of Cultural Diversity and Strategic Partnerships, NEW INC
Raymond McCauley: Cheif Scientist, Exponential Biosciences
Reid Hamilton: Managing Director, Founder Institute and Toronto Stock Exchange
Rhea Alexander: Founder, Parsons Elab
Richard Peterson: Associate Director
Rob Delman: Managing Director, Golden Seeds
Robin Schaffer
Rose Pember: CEO, Hodge, Inc.
Rosemarie Truman: Founder and CEO, Ignite Social Impact
Ross Palley: General Manager, Venture Lane
Roza Szafranek: CEO & Founder, HR Hints
Ruth Ku: CFO, Entrepreneurs for Global Change
Ryan Fairhurst: Founder, EchoGrowth
Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
Ryan Smith: CEO, FTSY
Ryan O'Conor: BD, VC & Accelerators, Carta
Ryan Brennan: Founder, RPB Capital Corp
Ryan Salerno: Technical CoFounder, Finta
Sachin Jaitly, Tessera Venture Partners
Sam Wils: Founder, Columbia Alumni Virtual Accelerator (CAVA)
Samantha Peterson: Founder, Best Kept Secret
Sameer Sortur: Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures
Samuel Newbold: Chair, Immigration Law Group, Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC
Sanjay Devnani: Manager, Security Architecture, Google
Saul Orbach: Managing Director, The Beachhead Group
Scott Heiferman: CEO, Meetup
Scott Landers: Co-Founder, Systems Engineer, Figure 8 Logistics
Scott Wayman: Founder & CEO, Kangarootime
Scout Tweedie Yates: Regional Manager , The Founder Institute HQ
Sean Pohjalainen: Co-founder , Reveler
Selena Singleton: Director, New York Life Ventures
Seneca Dunmore: CEO and Founder, Dunmore Capital Ventures
Sergio Escobar: CEO & Partner, BCF Ventures, Managing Director, Lalotte Ventures
Shakthi Kumar: Dr, BHS Group
Sharon Cryan: CEO, Food Nerd
Sharon Hsu: Program Manager, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Shasha Yan: Founder & CEO, FINTECH
Shashank Srivastava
Shaun Johnson: cofounder, Startup Institute
Shelley Orenstein
Sherrie Totoki: Director of Startup Programs , GreenBiz Group
Shibin Muhammed: Portfolio Manager, Techstars Canada
Shiven Ramji
Shyam Maskai: Associate, Wiggin and Dana LLP
Sidney Nakahodo: General Partner, Seldor Capital
Silvia Lupu: Venture Investor, VU Venture Partners
Simon Okeke: CEO, Jet Star Logistics
Sina Roshan: Cofounder & CPO, Peekage (Techstars 2020)
Sita Chantramonklasri: Principal, Future Positiive
Sneha Lundia Agrawal: Founder & CEO, Step2Growth
Soumya Tejam: Business Development, Sardine
Spandan Saha: Investor, Investor
Spencer Topel: CEO, Physical Synthesis
Stefan Klotzbuecher: Director, Founder Institute New York
Stephan Freudl: Managing Partner, SEF Opportunities Group
Stephen Meade: Founder & CEO, MonetaPro
Steven Lubin: Partner, Board Advisor and Early Stage Consultant with focus on Advertising, Media and Marketing Technology, Caspian Hill Group
Steven Rooney: CEO, Intelligent Vehicle Briefs
Sumeet Shah: VC in Residence, Galvanize
Sunil Sharma: Managing Director, Founder Institute Toronto
Sunita Rao: Vice President, Platform, Citi Ventures
Susan Huang: CEO and Founder, Yodayo
Sydney Wong: CEO & Angel Investor, VenturX
Szandra Ford: Operating Partner & Investment Professional, Republic
Tarun Gulati: Founder & CEO, Contemplate
Tarun Rishi: Founder, About Alpha
Tawanda Mahachi: Co-Director, Founder Institute Boston
Test T
Thomas Fandrich: Co-Founder and COO, Quantilope
Tim Schnurr: Partner , LeastTrust
Tim Makhauri: Head of Investor Platform, Hum Capital
Tim Shisler: Consumer’s Beverages, Marketing Manager
Tobin Lent
Tomer Molovinsky: Co-founder, CEO, Per Diem
Tony Jenkins: Executive Coach, CATAPULT
Tovit Neizer: Chief Storyteller, Yellow Bricks
Trevor Longino: Founder & CEO, CrowdTamers
Vasileios Stoidis: President and CEO, 7L International Inc and MassiveGrid Inc
Veronica Guzman: Founder | Innovation Catalyst, WAMVentures
Vicente DyReyes: Founder & CEO, Craft and Savor
Victor Adefuye: Partner & Sales Architect , Winning by Design
Vinayak Javaly: Data Scientist, Professor, Advisor, Mentor, Baruch College and numerous startups
Vince Scafaria: CEO, DotAlign
Vinnie Lauria: Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore
Walter Roth: CEO, Moment Sales, LLC
Will Sim: Country Manager, The Founding Network
William Butler: CEO, Journey Sales
William Abney: Head of Business Development, Smart Vision, Ricoh
Xuelan Zhang: Lead Software Engineer, Next Jump, Inc.
Yatin Patil, MD, FACP: Dedicated to Innovating Healthcare: A Mentor with a Unique Mix of Clinical, Investment, and Entrepreneurial Experience, D4HI (Doctors for Health Innovation)
Yemi Oluseun: Growth & GTM For FinTechs, The Change Hive
Yonatan Raz-Fridman: CEO & Founder, Supersocial, Inc
Youn Jung Chung: Founder, Dal Enterprises
Zehra Naqvi: Head of Founder Community, Republic Ventures
Zoe Oz

And many more to be announced.

The Founder Institute focuses on helping tech or tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed stage, including both solo-founders and teams. This includes established businesses that are pre-funding and traction, MVP and prototype-stage projects, and even part-time founders with just ideas. FI's mission is to create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.