The San Francisco Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the San Francisco Fall 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 12 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 San Francisco's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the San Francisco program:
- Flytinue - Real-time fallback decision engine for disrupted charter flights.
- DiaBets - A mobile app providing an engaging personalized T2D reversal game-plan.
- Vault - Marketplace where buyers discover curated exclusive contemporary and Indian art.
- Project Iceberg - AI-powered hiring platform automating job descriptions, applicant filtering, and candidate-fit scoring.
- LoanMedium - Online lending marketplace automating SME qualification using cash-flow data and open banking.
- Apexian - Intelligent alarm clock replacing snooze with a 5-minute audio-guided action ritual.
- MoveRays - Empowers parents of under-fives to minimize digital content anxiety through expert-guided content moderation.
- Logloop - Adaptive nurture loops that keep pipeline and customers from going dark.
- Quality Surgery Scheduling Solutions (QSSS) - Outsourced remote surgery scheduling support for hospitals and surgical centers.
- My Guardian - Gives insurers real-time visibility into policyholders' protective behavior during weather events.
- AIVisors - Helps mid-market firms adopt AI by diagnosing value, matching experts, and measuring ROI.
- Simplify AI - Helps small businesses confidently implement AI through a proven step-by-step system.
The San Francisco Fall 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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San Francisco Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the San Francisco Founder Institute: David Munir Nabti (CEO @ Bloom.pm 🌻; Director, Founder Institute - San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas), Jeni Chang (., .), SF Admin (X, X). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in San Francisco that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the San Francisco Fall 2025 program was supported by some of San Francisco's top technology organizations, including:
Some of San Francisco’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 2BN.
After Graduation, the new San Francisco 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 San Francisco Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/san-francisco.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 2BN 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.
