The Vietnam Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Vietnam Autumn 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 6 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 Vietnam's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Vietnam program:
- Locuno - Providing automatic arrival detection for urban families in Vietnam, giving parents certainty their children arrived home safely without constant texting - solving the universal daily anxiety of "arrived yet?" for 24 million Vietnamese households.
- Lyfe - Leveraging technology to create inclusive, safe, and sustainable urban communities in Vietnam by optimizing access to quality housing, promoting transparency, and enhancing both tenant and landlord experiences, while addressing key aspects of Sustainable Development Goal 11.
- NexGrid - Building a next-generation modular insurance technology platform designed to transform how insurers manage policies and pricing.
- Emoease - Creating a safe digital space where Gen Z and Millennials can share emotions anonymously, chat with an AI emotional companion, and join a supportive community helping them manage stress and build emotional awareness.
- Student360 - An all-in-one platform that empowers Vietnamese students to manage their education, finances, and career development through personalized digital tools and accessible financial solutions.
- DAYmaker - With multi-platform marketing costs rising while ROI stagnates, DAYmaker building a smart tool to predict optimal campaign spend and unlock sustainable ROI growth.
The Vietnam Autumn 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Learn more at Vietnam Founder Institute.
Vietnam Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Vietnam Founder Institute: GiangTrinh Minh (Country Director, Founder Institute Vietnam), TuanDung Nguyen (CEO, IZZI ASIA). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Vietnam that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Vietnam Spring 2026 program was supported by some of Vietnam's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Vietnam’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 1.9BN.
After Graduation, the new Vietnam 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 Vietnam Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/vietnam.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 1.9BN 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.
