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 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 14 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:
- Cymbiose Ai - A culturally informed AI assistant that helps therapists save time and improve clinical outcomes.
- Richuel - An AI-powered mobile app that gives GenX Millennials easy and affordable access to structured financial decision support, with an AI coach to guide you through scenarios, visually see the impact, and confidently choose the right path.
- Network Travel, Inc. (DBA Trustr) - A travel-focused social discovery platform that enables its members to share properties they own with people they know, and to capitalize on recommendations for great places to stay that are written by people whose taste they trust.
- KareFusionAI LLC - Reimagining administrative and clinical operations in healthcare through AI-powered voice and text agents by offering a platform that takes over key tasks like new patient registration, appointment scheduling, and intake.
- Debtzero.club - A mobile app that unifies debt accounts and provides personalized payoff strategies to help users escape debt faster.
- Instafreight - Providing an all-in-one digital platform for freight forwarders in emerging markets to manage shipments, documents, payments, and customer communication—replacing outdated manual processes with smart, seamless trade operations.
- ROQUST INC - Creating a solution to help hospitals quickly access the malpractice history of any healthcare professionals before joining their team.
- DiscoverCity - an AI-powered guide, adventurous urban citizens can easily discover, save, and share meaningful local experiences and places—eliminating frustration, wasted time, and missed opportunities caused by fragmented and irrelevant information.
- HABS tech, Corp. - Offering a self-development app based on successful people`s habits to boost motivation and productivity of users.
- Tamasha Group, LLC (DBA LiveKonnekt) - A retail marketing platform catering to on-site shoppers at malls, shopping centers, and lifestyle centers, bringing consumers and retailers together on a single unified platform with integrated marketing.
- Transformium-Robotics - Creating Transformium, a shape shifting material that is going to give people in the engineering world an advanced method of developing a new product or design in seconds rather than the tradinal methods that took days,weeks or years to show.
- ThinkIn' - A Human+AI operating layer that unifies 100+ tools to eliminate executive blind spots, align teams, and optimize decisions around the metrics that matter most.
- Tsandu - Developing a virtual travel platform designed for Gen Z to explore the world through immersive journeys that are social, cultural, and purposeful.
- KareFusion AI - Transforming healthcare operations with multilingual, customizable AI-driven EMR solutions that streamline clinical workflows, improve access, and bridge global care gaps.
The San Francisco Spring 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: Jeni Chang (., .), Saro Nikraz (x, x), 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 Spring 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 $1.85BN.
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 $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.
