The Louisiana Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Louisiana 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 4 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 Louisiana's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Louisiana program:
- Thrivvy - Delivering real-time, store-level retail intelligence to help emerging food and beverage brands detect out-of-stocks, pricing violations, and missed promotions before they show up in 5-week-old sales reports.
- DEVELOPMENTAL INC - Offering drug development research new technologies that reduce our reliance on animal research and prevent costly late stage failures by predicting risk of failure early in the new chemicals development pipeline.
- BeautyFindr - Connecting ready-to-book clients with beauty professionals through a real-time platform offering service requests, competitive offers, and an exclusive SOS feature for beauty emergencies.
- Build A Way Inc - Offering an AI assistant that answers calls, books jobs, and sends invoices for solo home service businesses.
The Louisiana 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Join us at Louisiana Founder Institute Graduation Event - link to graduation event.
Louisiana Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Louisiana Founder Institute: Heidi Fitzgerald ( Graphic Web Designer, Thecla Systems, LLC), Rick Mekdessie (Founder, Crowd9 Agency). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Louisiana that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Louisiana 2025 program was supported by some of Louisiana's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Louisiana’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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/louisiana.
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.
