Today, the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Silicon Valley Spring 2027 program!
If you could use a structured process and feedback from Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs to build a startup, then apply to the Silicon Valley Spring 2027 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 get to traction and funding.
To celebrate the launch, the Founder Institute will host several free startup events in Silicon Valley, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs and hear more about the program:
Silicon Valley Events:
- The Product-Market Fit Journey: Market Signals, Analytics & Tech Decisions: 9:00am, Nov 11, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/406838
- Venture Trailblazers Featuring Mac Conwell: 8:00am, Nov 12, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/407532
- How to Build an AI Employee That Starts Today: 9:00am, Nov 16, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/407649
- Venture Trailblazers featuring Harry Stebbings: 8:00am, Dec 10, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/407533
- Transitioning from Founder-Led Sales to a Repeatable Revenue Engine: 9:00am, Dec 10, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles): https://FI.co/e/407418
Global or Regional Events:
The Silicon Valley program is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Christina Marie Reddick (Founder, Racedu), Mercedes Bankston (Founder, Funderstar LTD), Preeti Tikekar (Founder/CEO, Membition), and has helped spawn many fast-growing businesses in the region:
- Ceres Robotics: robots for planetary surfaces, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
- Bleximo: quantum computing systems for pharmaceutical companies, $1.5M in funding.
- Gridraster: enabling faster access to high end applications on mobile devices, over $1.5M in funding.
- Udemy: world’s largest destination for online courses. 24M+ students and $173M+ funding.
- Spikes Security: cybersecurity company started by the former CIO of Paypal and SpaceX, raised $2M+ and was acquired in 2017.
- Retailigence: big data service for retailers and brands, raised $13M+ and was acquired in 2016.
- Daylighted: brings interactive art galleries to public places and hotels, triple digit QoQ growth.
- NextUser: helps consumer brands personalize like Amazon does, over $2.5M in funding.
- Skimble: the leading mobile app for fitness coaching, over 20M downloads worldwide.
- Rever: frontline innovation software for big corporations, $3.5M+ in funding.
- And many more.
In addition, some of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors will be participating in the program, providing them with expert feedback, guidance and evaluation. The list of mentors for the Silicon Valley Founder Institute includes:
- 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 Silicon Valley to build a great company in 2019.
Apply to the Silicon Valley Spring 2027 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
