Today, the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Romania - Central Eastern Europe Fall 2025 program!
If you could use a structured process and support from Bucharest's top investors and entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the Romania - Central Eastern Europe 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. Since 2009, the program 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.
To celebrate the launch, we will host several free startup events in Bucharest, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs and hear more about the program:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
The Bucharest program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Alex Dascalu (Lead Director, Founder Institute Bucharest), and Nicoleta Gologan.
In addition, some of Bucharest'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 Bucharest Founder Institute includes:
- Alexandru Agatinei: CEO, How to Web
- Ante Bilić: VC, SQ Capital
- Luca Stirbat: CEO, Creative Motion & ReaktorX
- 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.
Join us in Bucharest to build a great company in 2020.
Apply to the Romania - Central Eastern Europe Fall 2025 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
