Today, the Founder Institute, the world's premier pre-seed startup accelerator, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Seattle - San Francisco Fall 2025 program!
If you could use a structured process and feedback from Seattle's top entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the Seattle - San Francisco 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 critical support network and structured process needed to build an enduring company. Since 2009, the program has helped over 8,100 Graduates raise over 1.9BN funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more.
To celebrate the launch, the Founder Institute will host several free startup events in Seattle, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs and hear more about the program:
- Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 10:00am, Aug 25, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377266
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
- Ask an Investor Anything: Q&A with Rich Maloy: 5:00pm, Sep 08, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377258
- Responsible AI for Startups: Frameworks You Can Apply from Day One: 10:00am, Sep 15, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377256
- How to Get Investors to Notice Your Startup: AMA with Marta Marrucco: 10:00am, Sep 17, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377250
- How to Come Up with Great Startup Ideas: 10:00am, Sep 22, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377511
- Co-Founder Networking: Find a Business Partner: 10:00am, Oct 06, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377848
- Startup Pitch Practice: Share Your Idea and Get Expert Feedback: 10:00am, Oct 27, 2025 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/377685
The Seattle program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Jeremy Zaretzky (Co-founder and President, WireSpring) and Robert Le (Senior Analyst, PitchBook).
Some of Seattle's top entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors will be participating in the program, providing them with expert training, feedback, and evaluation. In addition to mentors who are returning from previous FI Seattle cohorts, the new mentors for the Fall 2019 program include:
- Ben Rush: Business, Pioneer Square Labs
- Chris Haberle: Principal Product Marketing Manager, AWS
- Edmond Sanctis: Co-Founder, Sahale Snacks and Partner, REASON Venture Partners
- Glenn Wisegarver: Former CFO, Moz and CEO, Sigma IQ
- Jay Goyal: President, Actively Learn
- Jim Poss: Founder, BigBelly Solar and CEO, Modifi
- John Scrofano: Director of New Initiatives, Remitly
- Joshua Gebhardt: CEO, Metricstory
- Matt Rubright: VP of Early and Growth Stage Tech, Silicon Valley Bank
- Scott Weller: Former President, Cequint
- Simon Yu: CEO, Storm
- And many more to be announced.
The Founder Institute is designed for founders and teams all throughout the pre-seed stage, including aspiring founders with a full-time job, solo founders, teams, and founders of established companies that are pre-funding. The Founder Institute's mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.
Join us in Seattle to build a great company in 2019.
Apply to the Seattle - San Francisco Fall 2025 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
