Below is a February 2021 highlight report featuring Founder Institute portfolio companies across the globe - see the most recent grad news and top media stories of the month, new 1:1 video interviews and presentations, and a list of upcoming FI global events taking place in March, 2021.
Alumni Funding + News Highlights:
- Leasecake (FI Silicon Valley), a lease management SaaS to track every time-sensitive business-critical event in one place, receives $3M investment to expand beyond real estate
- Endiatx (FI Silicon Valley), a pioneer in small robots for use in medical diagnoses, selected to pitch as 2021 SXSW Finalist in the 'Health, Wearables & Wellbeing' category
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SteppinOut (FI Bangalore), India's largest event curator, acquired by Dineout in expansion into live experiences, as reported by the Times of India
- Mountain Aerospace Research Solutions (FI Silicon Valley) announces first Utility Patent issued for new rocket propulsion system
- Esusu (FI San Francisco), a fintech to help renters build credit, featured in the NYTimes, 'How a Fintech Exec Who Focuses on Poverty Relief Spends Sundays'
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Realty Mogul (FI Los Angeles), a leading commercial real estate investment platform, featured on the Motley Fool, 'The Millionacres Hour: Interview with Jilliene Helman, CEO of Realty Mogul’
- Unito (FI Montreal), a software to unify workflows across platforms, CFO explains via FastCompany, 'Why we adjusted salaries for all traditionally female-dominated roles at our company'
- Kinnd (FI Toronto) founder Laura Sniderman profiled in blogTO, 'This Toronto Woman Created a Worldwide Friend Group to Beat Loneliness'; and interviewed live on GlobalNews.ca
- RushTix (FI Silicon Valley) CEO Jill Bourque via Forbes says Live-Streaming Comedy Is Here To Stay
- Uniteable (FI Austin) featured in Austin Chronicle, 'A Family Crisis Inspires an Adaptive Clothing Company: Brittany Burke launches Uniteable to bring stylish options for wheelchair users and people with amputations'
- Storyplay'r (FI Paris), a digital library of children's albums ages 3 to 8, accessible to all subscribers of Paris city libraries
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ChefPassport (FI Luxembourg) profiled in Paperjam Startup Stories 2021, ‘An online kitchen solution whose team-building tool Google, Amazon, and P&G have already adopted’
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Eon Media (FI Toronto) featured in Comcast NBCUniversal Announcement of the 10 Startups Selected for the Inaugural SportsTech Accelerator, powered by Boomtown
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Goodszilla (FI Toronto) featured in TheStar.com, ’The pandemic has hurt many businesses, but for these entrepreneurs it has been an opportunity’
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Bursity (FI Toronto) Founder & CEO Charles F Milton featured in Ryerson DMZ, ‘Elevating our Black Founders’
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Pathloom (FI Silicon Valley) featured in Startupill as a Top Outdoor Startup to Watch in 2021
Are you a pre-seed stage entrepreneur working to achieve startup traction or funding? Apply here to join a 100% virtual Founder Institute accelerator nearest you.
February Featured Keynote: Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis joined Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi for a live keynote interview as part of the 19th Global Founder Showcase event. Calacanis is an entrepreneur, author, and renowned angel investor in 250+ startups (including 7 'unicorns') - watch the video below:
February VC & Founder Interviews
Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures:
Gbemi Akande of Pacer Ventures:
Joe Bayen of Grow Credit:
RSVP here to join us at 'Growth Essentials for Startups' with Hubspot Senior Vice President Kieran Flanigan on March 24th.
And RSVP here to join us for the next 'Online Startup Idea Fest' to Build and Share Ideas with Potential Customers on March 30th.
Are you a pre-seed stage entrepreneur working to achieve startup traction or funding? Apply here to join a 100% virtual Founder Institute accelerator nearest you.
Graduates of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.75BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.
