Build a Great Startup in 2024 with the FI Portland Startup Accelerator

The Founder Institute, the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Portland - Seattle 2024 program!

If you could use a structured process and a lifetime of support from Portland's top investors and entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the Portland - Seattle 2024 Founder Institute today.

Since 2009, our highly-structured accelerator programs have helped entrepreneurs at the earliest stages grow quickly, know what to do next, and make connections with the largest community of startup advisors.

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.

To celebrate the launch, the Founder Institute will host several free online startup events in Portland, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs:

How to Build a Fundable Start-up Brand: 10:00am, May 20, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/346532
Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
FI Startup Accelerator Graduation with Kelly Perdew (VC at Moonshots Capital): 10:00am, May 21, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/347516
Employee to Entrepreneur: How to Make the Transition to Startup Founder: 10:00am, May 22, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/346546
Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 5:00pm, May 27, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/346559
How to Quickly Establish Safe, Reliable, and Compliant AI Startups: 10:00am, May 29, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/346873
What is Entrepreneur DNA? Insights from 15 Years of Social Science Research: 10:00am, Jun 03, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/346577
Startup Success: Mastering the Product Discovery Process (Online Workshop): 10:00am, Jun 11, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/347451
[Restricted] Venture Trailblazers, featuring James Currier (Founding Partner at NFX): 7:45am, Jun 12, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/348873
Adam Robinson’s Journey: Bootstrapping Retention.com to $22M ARR: 9:00am, Jul 12, 2024 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/348805

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The Portland program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Lainey Lee (Director, FI Seattle), LaJolla Jantaraamornkul, Levi Velez Reed (Managing Director, FI Seattle).

In addition, some of Portland'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 Portland Founder Institute includes:

Adam Mangone: CEO , Mangone Ventures
Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
Alain Raynaud: CEO, FairSoftware
Albert Lam: Partner, Dorm Room Fund
Aleksandra Manuilova: Senior Portfolio Development Manager, Microsoft
Amit Gupta: Sys Dev Manager, Amazon
Amy Swanson: CEO & Co-Founder, Ultropia
Amy Hutchins: Founder, Chief Product Officer, Unearth Technologies, Inc.
Andrew Klein: Founder, Zccounting
Andrew Lee: CEO, Esper
Andy Herman: Founder, Signtag Corp.
Anisha Vinjamuri: Founder & President , boza
Aracelis Nass: Senior Business Program Manager, Microsoft
Aswin Pranam: Sr. Product Manager, UVC Partners
Audrea Fink: Sales Coach & Strategist, mConnexions
Aviv Shalgi: CEO, Solar Simplified
BARRET NEWBERRY: CEO, Leasera
Ben Rush: Business, Pioneer Square Labs
Bill Bromfield: Partner, Fenwick & West
Bill Bryant: General Partner, Threshold Ventures
Bob Crimmins: General Partner, Startup Haven Ventures
Brandon Zhang: Business Analyst II, Amazon.com Services Llc
Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Syntoniq
Bryan Rutberg: Partner, AG Consulting Partners
Candice Dietz: Founder, Givespace
Chandler Lewis: Founder, 360 Social Impact Studios
Charles Kwon: Managing Partner, Concitor
Cheale Villa: Founder, CEO + Visionary Rabbit, Visual Caffeine
Chinara Askerzade: Managing Partner at PocketVC early-stage VC, PocketVC Studio and PocketVC Technologies Inc
Chloe Feingold: Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
Chris Kelley: Principal, DFJ
Chris Haberle: Principal Product Marketing Manager, AWS
Chris Bruno: Owner, X2Y Strategic Advisors
Christina Lomasney: Director of Commercialization, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Christy Johnson: CEO, Artemis Connection, Inc
Claire Mc Taggart: Founder & CEO, Square Peg Hires
Clare Gould: Founder & CEO, Your Vesa
Claudius Mbemba: Venture Investment Director, Startup Haven
Cody Birkland, Ultropia
Colleen Hilton: CEO, Alli Connect
Connor Gray: CEO, Stealth
Dan Fine: Managing Partner, Fine Solutions
Dan Kihanya: Director, REI Path Ahead Ventures, REI
Danl Kasow: Principal, Sorted Solution
Daria Boldyreva: Founder, Wunderdogs
David Jorjani: VP of Product and Engineering, Sayge
David Anderson: GM, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
Diane Najm: CEO/Founder, PhotoPad
Divyanshu Sharma: Software Engineer 3, Platform Security (Authentication & Authorization), CrowdStrike
Edmond Sanctis: Partner, REASON Venture Partners
Elisa La Cava: Investor, Madrona Venture Group
Emeka Alozie: Director, IntuitiveX
Fabian Geyrhalter: Founder and Principal, FINIEN
Fredrick Tsang: IP Attorney, Fenwick & West
Garrett Gross: Product manager, Xemelgo
Gary Gaessler: SaaS Community Builder, Nylas, Co-Founder of CloudElements
Gira Wieczorek: Managing Partner / Co-Founder, Aleberry
Gira Wieczorek: Founder
Glenn Wisegarver: CEO, Sigma IQ
Graciela Perez: Founder & Lean Start Up Coach, Lean Sigma Tech, LLC
Ian Lurie: EVP, Clearlink
Irina Menn: CEO, Hopela
Jake Hite: CTO, Compete to Create
James Hu: CEO, Jobscan
Jana Krystofova Mike: Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at University of California, San Francisco
Janiece Jenkins: Associate, Fenwick & West
Janis Machala: Corporate Director, Paladin Partners
Jay Goyal: President, Actively Learn
Jeff Croft: CRO, Kurvv
Jeffrey McIntosh: Founder, McIntosh Tea
Jen Haller: Chief of staff, Ascend VC.
Jennifer Azapian: Former Venture Partner and Advisor , Loyal VC | Mighty Capital
Jeremy Bruck: Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization, Gulp Data
Jeremy Zaretzky: Managing Director, Founder Institute Seattle
Jim Poss: CEO, Modifi
Joe Bezdek: Co-founder, DivX, Inc.
John Kinsella: VP Engineering, Not applicable
John Borofka: Founder, Walnut+Oak
Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute
Joseph Horsman: Investor, Madrona
Josh Dougherty: Co-Founder & CEO, A Brave New
Julian Fung: Solutions Architect, Real Estate Investor, Qualtrics, Avalanche Assets
Julie Pham: CEO, CuriosityBased
Karin Kidder: Executive Director, E8 Angels
Kate Loose: Investment Director, Capria Ventures
Kate Edwards: AWS Startup BD/Co-Founder at Heartbeat , Heartbeat
Kathleen Baxley: Interim CFO / Strategic Venture Advisor
Kelly Lawton Abbott: Partner, SSM Law
Ken Kranseler: Managing Director, Kabuki Strategy
Ken Horenstein: Founder, GP, Pack Ventures
Kevin Yu: Co-founder & CTO, Socedo Inc.
Khurram Agha: Founder, Aghaz Investments
Kristopher Alford: Venture Capital, Cercano Management
Lainey Lee: Director, Founder Institute
Laura Malcolm: Founder/CEO, Give InKind
Levi Velez Reed: Venture Partner, Loyal VC
Lewis Lin: CEO, ManageBetter
Lindsay Randall: Sr. Program Manager, Moonbeam
Lisa Fernow: President, Fernow Consulting
Loren Kolsloske: Head of New Verticals - Mobility, Uber
Madhu Singh: Chief Legal Officer, Foundry Law Group
Mara Rada: CEO & Chief of Strategy, Feral (thinkferal.com)
Mark Landay: Managing Director, Dynamic Synergy
Matt Paulin: Founder , zCrowd
Matt Mandell: Principal, PayNerd.com
Matt Rubright: VP of Early and Growth Stage Tech, Silicon Valley Bank
Matthew Lickwar: Co-Founder | Growth | Operations | Product, Ynomia
Maureen Ezekwugo: Chief Customer Officer, RealSelf
Maximilian Von Poelnitz: Investment Director, DSM Venturing
Melissa Li: Managing Partner and Head of Community, Dorm Room Fund
Melissa Reaves, Story Fruition
Michael Goldman: CFO, EN 360 Holdings
Mikaela Kiner: CEO & Founder, Reverb
Mike Cozart: Angel Investor and Startup Advisor, Relumin
Mike Vandenbos
Milkana Brace: CEO, Jargon
Minda Brusse: Founding Partner, First Row Partners
My Le Goel: Founder & CEO, Flight Live, Inc.
Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
Oleksandr Pukhalskyi: Mr, SMG
Omi Iyamu: Product Manager, Google Austria
Pablo Casilimas, OneSixOne Ventures
Pascha Scott: Partner and Co-founder, VERTETUDE
Paul Adams: CEO & Founder, Sound Financial Group
Paul Watt: Global Business Manager, Google
Peter Leonard: CEO, Meddle
Pilar Fernandez Hermida: Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand
Pradeep UN: Founder, CEO, Seerflix Inc
Puneet Kohli: CEO, Careerflow.ai
Raja Mawad: Founder, Thrv.health
Rebecca Lovell: Director, Create33
Rob Hillas: Founder, PlainVanilla
Robert Le: Director, FI Seattle
Rohre Titcomb: COO, Female Founders Alliance
Ron Gentile: Founder, Moodfit
Ruth Becke: Founder & CEO, Plantmatch
Ryan Mc Robert: Partner, Fenwick & West
Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
Saikiran Chandha: CEO, SciSpace (Formerly Typeset.io)
Sanjit Singh: COO, Various Companies
Santosh Khare: Founder & CEO, Touchbase, Inc.
Scott Weller: President, Radian Labs
Shaahin Cheyene: President
Shama Keskar: Cofounder & CEO, VoxAI
Shilpa Sharma: Co-founder & CEO, Flyte (flyteai.com)
Sneha Lundia Agrawal: Founder & CEO, Step2Growth
Sri Kasam: Director of Engineering, Nfinity
Steve Carver
Steve Cherewaty: Founder & Creative Director, Abacus
Suzanne Mills: Biz Dev & GTM - Retail & Fintech, Stealth Startup
Symon Perriman: CEO & Founder, FanWide
Tai Rattigan: Global Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Deel
Tarun Gulati: Founder & CEO, Adios
Taylor Black: Principal Program Manager, Office of the CTO Incubator , Microsoft
Terri Richardson: CEO, Accelerate Consulting Group, LLC
Thibaut Labarre: Founding Engineer, SingleFile.io
Travis Murdock: Executive Vice President, Ruder Finn
Vince Bianco: CEO, Advanced Medical Reviews
Yemi Oluseun: Founder/ CEO - Fintech, SaaS Business Growth, Automation & Change Management, The Change Hive
Yoko Okano: Co-founder, First Row Partners