The Columbus Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Brasil program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 9 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Columbus's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Columbus program:
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Inovacademy is a platform that bridges the gap between academia and the market, connecting professionals to real company projects to develop and learn new skills. Through our AI tool, we make it easy to form groups and offers.
- CoProdux - Creating strategies for SMEs' social networks, integrating a process that helps align objectives and results, increasing productivity by reducing repetitive tasks to unleash employees' hidden potential.
- Anywhere - Developing a migration platform to help to relocate around the world affordably, fast, without stress and digitally with written guides, marketplace with migration.
- Loonic - Helping HR managers to reduce operational risk by an integration layer that connects other HR application.
- Sócio do Tabuleiro - A solutions hub dedicated to the board games market, seeking to professionalize the sector and improve the experience and accessibility for players.
- TreineAqui - Offering a complete solution for bodybuilding gyms, covering everything from setting up to the evolution of workouts. Its aim is to solve the common difficulty faced by the fitness market in creating and delivering individualized workouts and evolving them.
- PayB - An installment payment system that eliminates the need for fixed installments, amounts or due dates. It is aimed at consumers who have difficulty accessing it due to debt and credit restrictions.
- Kundalini - A super-local social network, which works based on the user's geolocation, more specifically the city they are in, and allows you to search for specific products and services and find out where in your city they are sold.
- i9hunter - A leader in career and corporate development, offering career consulting, specialized recruitment, and tailored corporate training.
Join us for the Demo Day startup showcase Event on 28-May-2024
The Brasil program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Columbus Founder Institute: Jason Jacobsohn (Managing Partner, Propellant Ventures). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Columbus that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Brasil program was supported by some of Columbus's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Columbus’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.85BN.
After Graduation, the new Columbus Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Columbus Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/columbus.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN 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/graduates.
