The New York Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the New York Spring 2025 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 New York's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the New York program:
- HealUp - A digital care platform and virtual surgical assistant helping physicians and surgeons guide patients from pre-op to full recovery.
- SettleWise Inc - Providing a centralized web and mobile app for newly arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. to navigate complex, disconnected Settlement services and build a successful new beginning.
- Uppership - A subscription-based 3PL built exclusively for small e-commerce brands, solving high logistics costs and complexity with simple, scalable, and brand-friendly fulfillment.
- CHVLRY - Making intelligent sex toys that listen to their users and respond in real time to their biofeedback, providing a more intimate and organic sexual experience.
- Cozy Leaf - Providing an innovative, user-friendly menstrual cup designed to enhance menstrual comfort and hygiene, addressing common usability issues and combating period poverty globally with its unique, patent-filed features.
- ScreenGeni.us, Inc. - Enabling access to a $2T+ growing market across streaming, adtech, and related industries, targeting 1,100+ core B2B customers.
- CompeteEdge - Providing AI-powered feature detection software that helps Customer Success SaaS product teams automatically track competitor capabilities to prevent lost deals from competitive blindspots.
- Blawnt - An AI-first SaaS platform to help restaurant franchisors uncover and stop revenue leakage hidden across their supply chain.
- Emma Advisor - Delivering personalized, AI-powered guidance so they know exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to help their child stand out.
The New York Spring 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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New York Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the New York Founder Institute: Ken Parker (Director, Humans for AI), Lara Hejtmanek (Director, FI - NY), New York Admin (Founder Institute , New York), Reid Hamilton (Executive Director, NYC Innovation Collective). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in New York that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the New York Spring 2025 program was supported by some of New York's top technology organizations, including:
Some of New York’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 New York 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 New York Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/new-york.
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.
