The Eastern Europe Founder Institute, the regional chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from their Fall 2021 program cohort.

Over 275 prospective founders applied to the program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just eleven 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 Eastern Europe's top startup experts and investors.  

And now, without further ado, we proudly present the newest portfolio Alumni of the FI Eastern Europe program:

• Bluana Foods

• Careermore

• Fleet Admin

• Baza7

• MuzSchool

• ProcuChain

• Re__

• Minty

• Race Insights

• Self Up

• CSR Society 

The Eastern Europe Fall 2021 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes an entire tech ecosystem to raise a successful startup. We would first like to thank the Local Leaders of the Founder Institute Eastern Europe: Alex M. Dascalu, Bozhidar Georgiev, Janet Todorova, and Simona Irmova. Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network across the region that is conducive to building to great companies.

In addition, the Eastern Europe Fall 2021 cohort was supported by some of the region's top technology organizations, including:

Some of the region’s top startup mentors helped guide 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 $1.75BN. 

After Graduation, the new Founder Institute Eastern European 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 Eastern Europe 2022 Founder Institute accelerator cohort just opened up applications - visit https://fi.co/apply/eastern-europe to learn more and apply!

Alumni 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.

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