The Los Angeles Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Los Angeles program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 13 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 Los Angeles's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Los Angeles program:
- SportyMatch - SportyMatch helps people find and organize local sports events, solving the frustration of using scattered tools to connect with the right players.
- CompatibilityAI - the first social platform that rejects addictive algorithms and instead uses cutting‑edge behavioral science and AI to understand you deeply and match you with the right people.
- VRespiteHealthTech - VRespite HealthTech creates safe and welcoming spaces in VR where people in mental distress find relief and connection.
- Watchmate, Inc. - Watchmate empowers streaming services and content platforms to delight their viewers and slash search time with hyper-personalized, personality-driven recommendations, turning frustrated scrollers into joyful, engaged audiences.
- Mind Over Media Holding Company - Mind Over Media helps retention and lifecycle teams of digital entertainment brands convert audiences into DtC revenue by replacing static marketing funnels with AI-powered conversations across DMs, email, SMS, and web chat.
- Good4worK - Good4work is developing Web 3 Total Talent Recognition software to recognize the skills or achievements of Talents with portable professional badges that facilitate talent mobility while building trust in the workplace.
- Compliagence Solutions - Compliance Management Solution for Businesses who need solutions to addressing their compliance challenges due to rapidly changing and high volume of regulatory changes and lack of skilled workers to do the work.
- MotionPro - helps sports teams prevent injuries and optimize athlete performance through rapid motion analysis, personalized corrective exercises, and same-day injury risk reporting.
- WOH Corporation - An AI-powered platform that creates, and mails personalized, physical greeting cards on your behalf, no writing, no remembering dates.
- Rumi Inc - Rumi is AI-powered platform for community-based service recommendation(events, courses, etcs) for Persian/farsi-speakers around the world.
- WoundScan- WoundScan empowers clinicians to boost efficiency and recover lost revenue with smart AI
- Travel Light Clothing - Travel Light Clothing rents you the clothes you need at your destination, so you can travel without packing a suitcase.
- Sporta Athletics - a high performance apparel brand unlocking an underserved niche sports market - starting with figure skating.
The Los Angeles Fall 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Join us at Los Angeles Founder Institute Graduation Event on 2025-07-22
Los Angeles Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Los Angeles Founder Institute: Serephina Ha (Managing Director, Founder Institute - LA). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Los Angeles that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Los Angeles Fall 2025 program was supported by some of Los Angeles's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Los Angeles’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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/los-angeles.
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.
