The Founder Institute (http://FI.co), the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, announced today that it is exploring a new semester launch in New Delhi this Fall 2015.
Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200 cities and 100 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 8,100 companies - including fast-rising startups across 6 continents like Udemy, Realty Mogul, iCarsClub, Itembase, goplaceit, Appota, and many more. The company's mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.
If you'd like to help bring a semester to New Delhi, then fill out an Interest Form. If enough people complete this form by the Launch Deadline (Feb 21, 2023), then the Founder Institute will formally launch a Fall 2015 program.
The Founder Institute is a part-time, four-month program where promising entrepreneurs can "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses and expert feedback from business mentors. Plus, you are not required to quit your day job to participate, so you can begin building a business around your ideas without putting your livelihood at risk.
In order to test demand for a Fall 2015 program, the Founder Institute will host several free startup events;
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
Leading the Founder Institute's efforts in New Delhi are Amit Mishra, Shikha Suman, Siddharth Gupta, and Varun Chandra.
The New Delhi start-up ecosystem is booming. The presence of all the top companies in India - be it Indian, global, multinational or regional players - makes New Delhi a great breeding ground for ideas, skills and entrepreneurship. Opportunities are enormous , and it becomes easier to form teams and start a venture with a structured approach provided by the Founder Institute." - Siddharth Gupta
Other successful entrepreneurs who have pledged their support to mentor founders in a New Delhi Founder Institute program include:
- Abhesh Verma: (Ex) Chief Growth Officer , Saavn
- Abhijeet Sinha: Director, Ease of Doing Business
- Abhinav Tandon: Founder, Creator's Gurukul
- Abhinav Mathur: Founder, Million Sparks Foundation
- Abhishek Gupta: VP - IT , DishTV India Limited
- Adarsh Rai: Founder & Principal Consultant - Recruitment Strategy, HR Brain HUB
- Aditi Khurana: Head of Business Development, SoftBank KK
- Aditya Malik: Founder, Value Matrix
- Ajay Rajgarhia: Managing Director, APM Finvest
- Akshay Chhugani: Angel Investor
- Amit Grover: Co-Founder, AHAtaxis.com
- Amit Agrawal: Founder
- Amit Kumar: Partner, ahVentures
- Amit Rai: Managing Director & Partner , BCG Digital Ventures
- Amit Raj Gogia: Consultant , Shark Tank
- Aneesha Jyoti
- Anika Raja: Program Manager, IBM
- Anirudh Agarwal: Managing Director, PappaRoti India
- Ankit Mehrotra: CoFounder, Dineout
- Ankur Shrivastava: Founding Partner, Globevestor
- Anna Lindbäck: CEO & Founder, Startup Strats
- Annu Grover: Green Evangelist - MD, Nurturing Green
- Anshul Saxena: Partner, XScale
- Anupam Saronwala: Advisor, Mentor & Investor, .
- Anurag Batra: Chairman, Businessworld
- Arjun Ahlawat: Co-Founder
- Arpit Chhabra: Co-Founder, MishTag
- Arvind Jha: Director and Co-Founder, Pariksha Labs Private Limited
- Ashish Tulsian: Co-Founder, Posist
- Ashish Sarawagi: Investor & Growth Partner. , Gangupp
- Ashwini Anand: Founder, Monsoon CreditTech
- Ayami Wanasinghe: Regional Director - South Asia, Founder Institute
- Brett Steve: Vice President, Jaarvis Accelerator
- Chetan D'souza: Founder & CEO, KidzByte MediaTech
- Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
- Chris Foltz: Global Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Founder Institute
- Deepak Sharma: Head Of Operations, Housr
- Deepanjali Shanmugam: Start-up Ecosystem Lead, Jio Business
- Deepanshu Manchanda: Founder CEO
- Dheeraj Sood
- Dhianu Das: Founder, Alfa Ventures
- Dhiraj J: Founder CEO, Verve Talent
- Dhruv Khanna: CEO & Co-Founder, Data Resolve
- Dinesh Jain: Founder, IndianMaze Advisory
- Dip Sengupta: Chief Growth Officer , Creative Land Asia
- Dojo Jose: Founder CEO, Aspire Media Pvt. Ltd.
- Dr. Pallavi Singh: IP and Technology Lawyer and Consultant, Founder, Episteme Legal
- Felix Schlenther: Managing Director, realworld one
- Gagandeep Singh Sapra: Co-Founder, Sproutbox
- Garima Seth: Founder, Boon Capital Advisors
- Gaurav Luthra: Founder, Whats Up Life
- Gopal Shrivastava: VP - Patents, Glocon KPO Solutions Pvt. Ltd
- Gopal Kedia: Managing Partner , GK Kedia & Firm
- Guv Dhaliwal: Advisor, Fuel Ventures
- Harish Saini: Founder & CEO, Bharat Infotech
- Harpreet Singh Grover: Co-Founder & CEO, cocubes.com
- Hemant Dua: Promoter Inspiranti and Ex CEO Delhi Daredevils, Inspiranti
- Hetal Sonpal: Angel Investor, Multiple (BabyChakra, Vahdam, Explara etc.)
- Hitendra Gosain: CEO, Create Value
- Hormazd Charna: Founder, MergerDomo
- Ingeborg Gasser Kriss: Board Member, Advisor , Agent21
- Ish Anand: Founder CEO, Business Doctors India
- Jamie Cid: Social Media Expert
- Janet Todorova: Head of Expansion, Founder Institute
- Janhvi Pradhan Deshmukh: Partner , Helios Legal
- Jitender Ahlawat: Managing Partner, HJA & Associates LLP
- Jyothis Ks: Co-Founder and Head of Sales, Zappy Hire
- Kabir Kochhar: Founding Partner, The Glitch
- Kairav Joshi: Founder and President, ChessUniversity.com
- Kaselin Naidoo: Advisor, TEMAMII South Africa
- Kevin Chetty: Founder CEO, Macrocomm Financial Services / Xtenda Housing Finance
- Kishore Reddy: Founder CEO, KK Corp
- Kshitij Naik: Partner , Sigma Ventures
- Kshitij Puri: Founder & CEO, Ziploan
- Lloyd Mathias: Business Strategist, Angel Investor & Ind Director, Self employed
- Madhu Kiran: Co-Founder & CEO
- Mahendra Lalwani: CEO, TelExcell Information System Ltd.
- Mani Agarwal: Founder, I Wear My Style
- Manish Johari: Senior Vice President & Partner - Investor Relations, Agility
- Manoj Bhalla: Founder , (In Stealth Mode)
- Mark Taylor, TEMAMII South Africa
- Meghna Saraogi: Founder & CEO, Styledotme
- Meher Gaurav: HR Consultant, EVENTZFORCE
- Mercedes Bankston: Founder, Funderstar LTD
- Mohd Siraj: Founder, Creator's Gurukul
- Monika Agarwal: Private Wealth Manager, Bank of America Merill Lynch
- Nakul Kumar: CoFounder, Cashify
- Namit Pandey: Co-Founder, Autoflik
- Nandini Rathi: CMO, Betaout.com
- Narendra Arora: Partner, Arora Associates
- Neeraj Mehta
- Neeraj Tyagi: Managing Partner, Venture Catalysts
- Neeraj Saxena: Managing Partner, XScale
- Neerav Jain: Co-Founder, CityFurnish
- Nidhi Goyal: EVP, Tata IIS
- Nirav Choksi: Co-Founder & CEO, CredAble
- Nisary Mahesh: Founder, Her Money Talks
- Nishant Jain: Co-Founder, Toffee Insurance
- Nitin Sethi: Vice President Digital, Indigo
- Nitin Bajaj: Founder, EasyLeadz
- Pankaj Judge: Founder, Chai Thela
- Parul Tongaria: Co-Founder
- Pawan Gupta: CoFounder, Curofy
- Prabhat Kumar: Co-Founder & CEO, DreamSol TeleSolutions Pvt. Ltd. & Over2Cloud
- Pramod Joshi: Advisor, Organizational Strategy & HR, myKaarma
- Pranay Gupta: Co-Founder, 91springboard
- Prateek Nijhawan: Founder , (In Stealth Mode)
- Puneet Gupta: Investor & Entrepreneur, SimpliLend
- Puneet Ahuja: Founder & CEO, Urja Unlimited
- Purnima Anand: President, BRICS International Forum
- Rabeth Khan: Founder & CEO , Maccom, Bangladesh
- Rachna Khanna: Founder, Hatchtact
- Rachna Nath: Executive Director, Microsoft
- Rahul Chakraborti: Founder, Twyst.in
- Rahul Dev: Director, Tech Corp International Consultants Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
- Rahul Agarwalla: Managing Partner, SenseAI ventures
- Rahul Aulakh: Global Business and Product Head, Paramount Software | Farm To Plate ERP | Spectra One AI
- Raj Saxena: Founder & CEO, Cygnet Infotech
- Rajiv Thaper: Director - APAC, MongoDB
- Rajiv Nair: Founder CEO
- Rakesh Sinha: Senior Engineering Manager, Google
- Ramanuj Mukherjee: Founder, Superlawyer.in
- Ranendra Datta: Advisor, CACHATTO
- Riitu Chugh: Founder, Third Eye Catalyst
- Rishabh Sawansukha: Co-Founder, Cloudacar.org
- Saarthak Bakshi: CEO, RISAA IVF
- Sahil Jain: CoFounder, Dineout
- Sahil Baweja: Co Founder & Partner, Now Capital Group
- Sahil Sapru: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
- Sakshi Vij: Founder, Myles
- Sameer Gupta: CFO, Grex
- Sameer Gupta: Director, Innovitas
- Sameer Sortur: Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures
- Sanchit Sethi: Founder StayUncle, StayUncle
- Satyaprem Upadhyay: CEO, Nojoto
- Saumyajit Guha: Co-Principal, Jaarvis Accelerator
- Saurabh Kaushik: Founder & CEO, Peopleist India
- Seema Jhingan: Partner and Co-Founder , LexCounsel, Law Offices
- Shankar Nanivadekar: Founder CEO, Gyany Customer Solutions
- Shaswati Saradar: Dy CEO, SayeNvest Caps Advisory
- Shikha Suman: Founder, CEO, Medi Mojo, Sampling Research
- Shivam Tandon: Co Founder, Xander Law
- Shreyasi Singh
- Shuchin Bajaj: Founding Director, Cygnus Medicare
- S M Raunaque Mustafa: Founder & CEO, StartupActivator.com
- Subhajit Bhattacharya: Senior Program Manager - Innovation & Intelligent Automation, Accenture
- Subhradeep Bhowmik
- Subhrangshu Neogi: Mentor, YourNest Venture Capital
- Sudhir Garg: Director Marketing, Tata Communications Ltd
- Sumit Garg: Founder CEO, Encriss Technologies
- Sumit Maloo: Founder CEO, BuySupplies.in
- Sunil Goyal: Managing Director, YourNest Venture Capital
- Sunil Thakur: Managing Director, Quadria Capital
- Sunil Cherian: SR VP, Wells Fargo Bank
- Supriya Paul: Co-Founder, Josh Talks
- Suresh Kabra: Founder, PriceMap Ventures LPP
- Tamanna Dhamija: Co-Founder, BabyDestination
- Tushar Agrawal: Seed Investor, TrueTribe VC
- Uday Krishna: Advisory Board, Seed Stars
- Utkarsh Nanda: TechnicalSenior Product Manager, Amazon
- Vaibhav Jain: Partner
- Vandana Seth: Co-Founder, R V Solutions
- Varun Chandra: Director
- Varun Puri: CPO, InFeedo
- Vibhore Sharma: CTO, Naukri.com
- Vikas Lakhani: CoFounder, Insta Office
- Vikas Bagaria: Founder, Pee Safe
- Vikas Vikram: Vice President Portfolio, Niva Bupa
- Vinod Madhok: Chairman , Council SME
- Vishal Chandra: Founder
- Vivek Kapoor: CoFounder, Dineout
- Vivek Agarwal: CoFounder, Square Yards
- Vivek Yadav: Founder CEO, Entecres Lab
- Vk Gupta: CTO & Head of OTT Business - DishTV, Director - Founder Institute
- And many more to be announced.
Help bring the Founder Institute to New Delhi and fill out an Interest Form today.
About The Founder Institute
The Founder Institute (www.FI.co) is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, helping aspiring founders across the globe build enduring technology companies. In the Founder Institute's four-month, part-time program, promising startup entrepreneurs "learn by doing" and launch a company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors. Plus, aspiring founders are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk.
Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200 cities and 100 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 8,100 companies, which have created over 30,000 new jobs. The company's mission is to "Globalize Silicon Valley" and create sustainable startup ecosystems that will create one million new jobs worldwide.
The Founder Institute was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi.
