The world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute, in Montreal announces the newest alumni from the virtual winter 2021/2022 program.
Over 180 prospective founders applied to the program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just four companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a very high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Montreal's top startup experts and investors.
Introducing the new Alumni of the FI Montreal Winter 2021/2022 accelerator:
Hivenue
Hivenue is a co-living rental marketplace helping people to list and rent furnished and flexible rooms with like-minded roommates. Our verification and payment platform let the host accept verified roommates based on their profiles, receive automatic payments, and earn more by renting individual rooms. We also make sure that renters match with the right roommate and with the right neighborhood, based on their interests and lifestyle, thanks to our AI-profile matching system.
- Fully transactional, booking and listing marketplace released in March 2022
- 2,700+ users registered, with an average of 100 new users per month
- 550 furnished rooms listed
- Between 7-15 sent communication messages per day
- MITACS funding to develop an advanced AI-profile matching system
- Planning to open 2 additional cities by this summer: Toronto and Ottawa
Fields: AI, Hospitality, Co-living, PropTech, Rental Marketplace
With more than 10 years experience in product design and user experience, Hivenue’s co-founder and CEO, Nassim Bahloul, has developed hundreds of digital products used by everyday consumers. He’s supported by a strong technical team composed of Didier Noumia, head of security and senior architect at National Bank of Canada, Krishna Nadarassin, head of payment and senior architect at Best Buy, Louenas Hamdi, product owner and scrum master at SAP, and Samuel Ethier, data science advisor at Ubisoft.
ViaWarn
ViaWarn provides a collision prevention, early warning road safety management solution, for the trucking industry. Our AI Speech-To-Intent technology recognizes common expressions used in truckers' CB Radio Communications to power our advanced road safety management system which delivers real-time alerts to truck drivers and their fleet managers through their Electronic Logging Devices (ELD).
Key Advantages for the Trucking Industry:
- Enhanced Road Safety
- Enhanced Route Optimization
- Enhanced Freight Dispatch Communications
- Leverages Existing Technology Investments
Timeline:
- Beta release of ViaWarn App by end of Q2 2022
- Pilot Program in Q3 2022 for trucking fleets (2 Companies (GEOTAB ELD), 12 trucks, and more participating companies to come)
Fields: AI, Transportation, Supply Chain
With more than 20 years experience in financial services, including the design, implementation and management of an award-winning systematic diversified managed futures program, Pierre Thauvette acquired significant experience in research, trading, operations, marketing and IT at one of Quebec’s largest independent asset management firms.
Aletia
Aletia is a Mexico-based career success platform focused on developing AI & ML tech talent from LATAM through immersive remote courses. While US & Canada have a tech talent shortage, Latin America has a large talent pool of IT professionals. Our training system allows them to acquire the necessary skills to be hired in AI & ML remote roles within startups and large companies in North America.
Video for Students (En Español):
- Our 3 mentors work for KPMG, HP. One holds a master’s degree in Data Science in England and one has 10+ years of experience in financial institutions like Metlife and Santander.
- We launched our first bootcamp on April 4th 2022 in Mexico city. This first curriculum is designed to develop Data Analysts. Our next goal is Data Engineers and then Data Scientists.
- Our offer includes an 8 week immersive program to improve technical English while they are being trained for the recruitment processes in Northamerica
- We implemented a learning management system (LMS) to streamline the scalability of our platform across Latin America."
- We have $3000+ USD in revenue so far.
- We closed one US company who will hire one Data Analyst from our community.
- We have 300+ people in our community.
- We are currently finalizing the development of our soft skills assessment tool to help companies in US & Canada improve their selection and hiring processes.
- Some of the soft skills being assessed are: Logic reasoning, creativity, abstract capacity, cognitive flexibility, planning, problem solving
Fields: AI, Data Science, Marketplace, Ed Tech, HR Tech.
Marco García, the CEO and founder of Aletia, is the former co-founder and CEO of a small business called Vélez in Mexico City. Marco has 7+ years of experience in the education industry and he has been supported by his mentors: Juan Camilo Pineda, current CEO at Vetta; corporate startup generator, Natalia Putrino, PHD in psychology, and José Manuel Carpinteyro, Data Scientist with 10+ years of experience.
Demeter Restaurant
Demeter is an online loan application platform helping restaurant owners or any food passionate to be connected with lenders in order to get funding for their businesses. Our solution offers a full automated process that empowers users to create an impressive loan application with our services packages or by outsourcing the most time-consuming tasks to local service providers.
- 4 L.O.I. 's signed with local restaurants enrolled in our pilot.
- 70 % of the content of our packages have been completed.
- 25+ partnership signed with local service providers.
- Brand awareness and lead generation campaigns started (FB, IG, Google ads)
- 150+ people in our community.
- We launched our beta version through one of our partnerships.
- 1 Blog article post per week related to the services we are covering
- 3 attendances to major events related to the restaurant industry in the upcoming weeks.
- 2 free consultations completed.
- Planning to start the development of the second version of our platform by mid-June.
Fields: AI, Finance, Restaurants, FoodTech
With almost 3 years’ experience in commercial banking and over 5 years’ experience in corporate finance and IT, Demeter’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Richard Kamdem, has become familiar with local credit policies and has worked on numerous commercial financing cases. Demeter’s business development is also supported by Patrick-Olivier Ndoumbe Co-founder and CTO with over 10 years of experience in computer science and statistics, by Ayyoub Oulidi-Omali a Senior Research and Development Engineer and Francesco Prince as a product owner and developer.
The Montreal Winter 2021/2022 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes an entire region to raise a successful startup. We would first like to thank the Montreal Founder Institute directors: Sergio A. Escobar and Ben Melchionno. Our local directors play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and Sergio Escobar and team have created an exceptional environment and network in Montreal conducive to building great companies, with many success stories to show over the past 9+ years.
In addition, the Montreal Winter 2021/2022 accelerator cohort was supported by some of Montreal's top technology organizations, including:
- BCF Ventures (https://bcfventures.vc/)
- OVH Digital Launch Pad (https://www.ovh.com/)
- Richter (https://www.richter.ca/)
- Fasken (https://www.fasken.com/en/offices/montreal)
- Futurepreneur Canada (https://www.futurpreneur.ca/)
- Scale AI (https://www.scaleai.ca/)
- Startup Montreal (https://startupmontreal.com/)
- Fundica (https://www.fundica.com/)
- MedStack (https://medstack.co/)
- Hubspot (https://www.hubspot.com/)
- Startup Canada (https://www.startupcan.ca/)
- MAIN (https://mainqc.com/)
Some of Montreal’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
- Aaron Baer: Partner, Renno & Co
- Aaron Albert: CEO and Co-Founder, Mine'd
- Abdel Ali: Investment Analyst, Relay Ventures and Alate Partners
- Abdellah Aouf: Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM
- Adam Spector: CEO & Founder, levy
- Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
- Alan Trieu: Senior Director, Sales , Cinchy
- Alexander Rink: CEO, Rink Ventures
- Alexander Mc Isaac: Principal, Strategic Investments and Women in Tech, BDC Venture Capital
- Alexander Jager: Founding Partner, Amplifier Advisors
- Alexander Morsink: Managing Director, Equivesto
- Ali Nawab: Founder and CEO, Kiwi Wearables
- Ali Ghassemi: CEO, Weaver and Loom
- Ali Abbas: Founder & CEO , SEO Button
- Amber Mac: President, Konnekt
- Ambles Kwok: Head of Engineering (Toronto) / Co-Founder, Thumbtack / Therapia
- Amir Alikhanzadeh: CEO and Co-Founder, Madlipz
- Andrei Poliakov: CEO, APX Lending
- Andrew D'Souza: Founder and CEO, Sfoundation
- Andrew Hendry: Co-Founder, REALQualified
- Anes Rachid: Manager, Innovation , City of Brampton
- Anik Ghosh: CPO, Phaze
- Anna Hu: CEO and Co-Founder, Brizi
- Aran Hamilton: President & Co-Founder, Vantage
- Arcui Usoara: Founder/CEO, Iaculus
- Ashley Martis: Co-Founder & CEO, StartupFuel
- Ashley Hahn: Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, Canada, Google
- Ashok Prabhu Masilamani: CTO & Founder, Stratuscent
- Aurelie Guerrieri: CMO, Open Systems
- Aurélio Araújo: CEO, Leadfy
- Axel Villamil: CEO, StageKeep
- Ayhan K. Isaacs: Head of Global Growth, Founder Institute
- Balaji Gopalan: Co-Founder and CEO, MedStack
- Barnabe Geis: Executive Director, Centre for Social Innovation, Climate Ventures
- Barry Hillier: Founder & CEO, eQuo/ DOS
- Ben Stacey: CEO, Pitchverk
- Ben Sanders: CEO and Co-Founder, Davispier.ca
- Ben Baldwin: Founder, Upteaming.com
- Ben Zion Benkhin: CEO, WOMBO.ai
- Bernie Li: Board Member and Investor, Antler
- Bilal Tariq: Technical Talent Connoisseur , GuruLink
- Bill Jouni: Partner, NGO
- Bob Embleton: CEO, Perigee Convergent Solutions Inc
- Bob Kyryliuk (CEO-P2P): CEO & Founder, CEO-P2P.com
- Brad Poulos: Mr., Ryerson University
- Braedon Hinde: Co-Founder, Purpose Equities
- Brett Reed: Director, Global Talent and People, Localised
- Brice Scheschuk: CEO, Globalive Capital
- Bruce Hodges: Founder & CEO, Parachute (White Hat Financial)
- Bryan Gold: Co-Founder and CEO, #paid
- Bryan Smith: Co-Founder & CEO, ThinkData Works Inc.
- Bryan Duarte: Managing Partner, BlackTech Capital
- Callum Travaglini: Strategy & Program Manager, Office of the CEO, Wealthsimple
- Cameron Rowe: CEO, Hover
- Caren Carrasco: Managing Partner, Benjamin David Group
- Casey Lau: Co-Host, Rise Conference (Web Summit)
- Cerys Goodall: COO, Vetster
- Chad Ford: Vice President Innovation, Communica and Partner, Pactech Ventures, Director, Western Canada Founder Institute
- Chevonae Walcott: Associate, Relay Ventures
- Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
- Chris Ye: Co-Founder, Uken Games
- Chris Hobbs: President, TTT Studios
- Chris Adams: Founder and Managing Partner, Adams Hamilton
- Chris Anderson: General Partner, A2Z Ventures
- Christopher Leacock: Founder , Jillionaire LLC
- Corey Gross: CEO, Sensibill
- Cory York: CEO and co-Founder, PowerStores
- Craig Asano: CEO, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada
- Craig Zingerline: Founder and CEO , Growth Minded
- Dan De Mers: CEO and Co-Founder, Cinchy
- Daniel Bishun: Economic Development Officer , City of Brampton
- Danielle Brewin Graham: Co-Founder, The Firehood
- David Winterstein: CEO, Velocia
- David Jorjani: Founder, Qatalyst Labs
- Denise Mc Clure: Senior Manage of Economic Development, City of Brampton
- Derrick Fung: CEO, Drop
- Devin Tu: Founder and CEO, Map Your Property
- Devin Ramphal: Innovation and Technology Sector manager-City of Brampton, City of Brampton
- Diana Goodwin: CEO and Founder, MarketBox & AquaMobile
- Dickson Nsofor: Founder and CEO, Korapay (Techstars 2019)
- Dinah Davis: Founder, Code Like A Girl
- Don Samoil: Managing Partner, Trusted Scale
- Drew Lindsay: Co-Founder, GuruLink
- Duncan Brown: Partner, Penrose Partners
- Dustin Betz: Director of Operations, White Rose Ventures
- Ebin Elavathingal: Director, MERSTRA Foundation / Next Market
- Edmundas Balčikonis: CEO and Co-Founder, Eddy Travels Inc.
- Eileen Brewer: Director, Takween Accelerator
- Elaine Ann: Founder/CEO, Kaizor Innovation
- Erich Ko: CEO, Hop In Technologies
- Ernest Yap: Carbon Markets and Renewable Energy Lead, SWTCH Energy
- Eropa Stein: CEO, Hyre
- Evgeny Lazarenko: Senior Product Manager (L7 / Group PM level), Unity
- Favour Ori: Founder, CEO, Payday
- Fion Lee-Madan: Technical Co-Founder, COO and Customer Success, Fairly AI Inc.
- Francois Le Roux: CEO, Terrene Technologies Inc & BountyBoard
- Franklin Kamnang Ngansop: Cofounder , Vitamin C&S Coaching
- Frederic Voyer: Senior Strategy & Execution Advisor, Post-Exit Entrepreneur (multiple: SWAAAP, BVI & HR Inc.)
- Gabriel Purificati Weedon: National Account Manager, Calculated Hire
- Gabrielle Rudd: Senior Program/Ops Associate, Techstars Chicago
- Garth Smith
- George Bordianu: Co-founder & CEO, Balance
- Gilberto Gandra: Founder, Gandra & Co
- Giovanni Gerbolini: Entrepreneur, Board Member, Startup Advisor, Djot, Loyal VC, MaRS Discovery District, Independent, Covenant House
- Graeme Millen: Director, Technology Banking, Silicon Valley Bank
- Gurjot Narwal: CEO and Co-Founder, Gini Health
- Gurpartap Singh Toor: Council Member, City of Brampton
- Hamid Akbari: CEO, BlancLink
- Hamoun Karami: CEO and Co-Founder, Smartbin.io
- Haoyang Liang: Director of Product Development, Orbiseed
- Harnoor Singh
- Harsh Pujara: Co-Founder, Actuality
- Helen Platis: Managing Director, A Poke in the Brain Consulting
- Hooman Aksari: CTO and Co-Founder , Artboard Studio (Techstars 2020)
- Hussam Ayyad: Chief Accelerator Officer , Highline Beta
- Idowu Akinde: Founder, Impact Hub Lagos
- Ignacio Castro: Managing Partner, 128vc
- Ilya Brotzky: Founder and CEO, VanHack
- Isabel Starck: Founder/Co-Founder, Starck Coaching, SportsCarBoutique
- Jack Liu: CEO and Co-Founder, Orbiseed (Techstars 2020)
- Jaden Pereira
- Jafar Owainati: Co-Founder, Loopio
- James Meier: CTO, Synervoz Communications
- Jason Atkins: General Partner, 360insights
- Jay Krishnan: CEO, Accelerator Centre
- Jeff Hohner: President, Tecumseh Capital Ltd.
- Jeffery Potvin: Founder, Open People Network
- Jelmer Stegink: Program Director, DMZ Innisfil
- Jennifer Turliuk: CEO and Founder, MakerKids
- Jeremy Potvin: Founder, World of Angus
- Jeremy Glassenberg: Product Management, APIs, Developer Experiences, Marketplaces, API Strategist
- Jeremy Bell: CEO and Co-Founder, Mayday (Techstars 2020)
- Jeremy Potvin
- Jeremy Kuo: CEO, Ever
- Jesse Shapins: Director of Public Realm, Sidewalk Labs
- Joe Parenteau: CEO and Co-Founder, Fable (Techstars 2020)
- Jon Prentice: Investment Director (Canada) , Lighter Capital
- Jonah Midanik: COO & General Partner, Forum Ventures
- Jonathan Ip: Founder, Iterative Law
- Jordan Jocius: Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Founder Institute
- Joseph Dales: Co-Founder & Director, RHA Partners
- Juanita Lee Garcia: Executive Director, The Upside Foundation of Canada
- June W Choi: Managing Partner, Serval Ventures
- Jyoti Singh: Marketing Director, We Love Digital Marketing Inc.
- Karanjot Jaswal: CTO and Co-Founder, Cinchy
- Karen Greve Young: CEO, Futurpreneur Canada
- Kayla Isabelle: Executive Director, Startup Canada
- Kesem Frank: Founder, Mavennet and AION
- Kevin Gervais: CTO @ Touchless, Co-Founder @ Auto Genius, Statflo, Touchless
- Konata Lake: Partner
- Kristine Beese
- Kumar Abhishek: Head of Growth, Happay
- Kweku Essien
- Kyle Collier: Co-founder and CEO, Phaze
- Laith Shukri: Sr. Market Development Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
- Lance Cottrell: Founder, Feel the Boot
- Laura Bryce: Co-Founder & CMO, loopt
- Leandro Faria: CEO, Starbem
- Leena Dixit: Founder and Mentor, Nativ Chefs and InFED
- Leonidas Papadopoulos: CEO, Viable
- Lidia Bit Yunan: Co-founder, Set Scouter
- Lorraine Wiseman: Vistage Chair/ President and CEO , Vistage Worldwide, Inc./ Leading the Wise Way Inc.
- Lucas Porter-Bakker: Head of Product and Design, PDS
- Luke Vigeant: CEO, Inkblot
- Luke DeCoste: Entrepreneur in Residence, Davispier.ca
- Maarij Rehman: CEO, Envoi
- Majdi Alnabih: CEO, ZipLunch Inc
- Manny Jassal: Founder, Defiant Regime & Extra Sauce Agency
- Mara Rada: Chief Operations and Strategy, Loon (loonbio.com)
- Marat Mukhamedyarov: Managing Partner, Good News Ventures
- Marcello Tommasi: Co-Founder & COO, Envoi
- Marina Tran Vu: Founder & CEO , EQUO
- Mark Smith: Canada Startup Ecosystem Lead, Amazon AWS
- Mark Evans: Principle, Marketing Spark
- Marty Finestone: Lawyer in Residence, Goodlawyer
- Maryam Nabavi: Founder and CEO, Babbly (Techstars 2020)
- Matt O'Leary: CEO and Co-Founder, Treasure Financial
- Matt Lee: Investor, Dr. Matt Lee Family Office
- Matthew Thurston: Chief Arctictect, Arctic Wolf
- Mercedes Bankston: Founder, Funderstar LTD
- Michael Young: CTO, Reuters News and Media
- Michael Katchen: Founder & CEO, WealthSimple
- Michael Kosic: Founding Partner, Loyal VC
- Michael Collins: Founder | CEO, Periculum
- Michele Romanow: Co-Founder, Sfoundation
- Michelle Pinchev: Founder & Lead Strategist
- Mike Suprovici: Head of Acceleration, VC Lab
- Mike Hollinger, Dentons LLP
- Mike Apted: Principal Solutions Architect - Startups, AWS
- Milad Zabihi: CEO & Cofounder, Peekage
- Milanyila Vargas: AGI Integration in Economic Development, The World
- Mitt Korot: President & CEO, Toronto Technologies Inc.
- Mitul Shah: Senior Associate, Vertu Capital
- Mohan Markandaier: Managing Partner, Good News Ventures
- Mohd Shahnawaz
- Monish Sinthala: Mr, PYRAMIDIONS INC
- Mucahit Gayiran: CEO and Co-Founder, Artboard Studio (Techstars 2020)
- Muhammad Rashid: Director, Business Development, Finastra
- Mustafa Saeed: Co-Founder, Luella
- Mustansir Paliwala: Strategy & Business Development, EQUANS Services Inc.
- Mykyta Ponomarenko: Sales, RealSage
- Nabil Fahel: Head of Partnerships and Community, Terminal, Inc.
- Nadia KANOUN: CEO, Senior Adviser, Trainer & Coach, IHSCEN for Startups
- Nana Obeng: Fractional COO /Strategic Partner, Highpoint Consulting
- Natalie Smith: Senior Associate, Whitecap Venture Partners
- Neerav Sood: CEO, Simple AI
- Neha Khera: Venture Partner, 500 Startups
- Nicholas Sopuch: Talent Associate , Entrepreneur First
- Nicole Verkindt: Founder and CEO, OMX
- Niket Shah: Co-Founder, Acceler8 Labs
- Noah Dolgoy: CEO, Tread
- Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
- Osamede Arhunmwunde: CEO, GIGX Technologies
- Pako Tshiamala: Founder & CEO, Blink Equity
- Pamela Draper: CEO, Bitvo
- Pardeep Grewal: Fellow, OnDeck
- Parvinder Shergill: CFO, Trust Bridge Consulting Inc.
- Paul Parsons: Partner, Metaii
- Peter Ma: Co-Founder, MixPose
- Philippe LeBlanc: CEO, Flixel Photos Inc
- Phillip Gales: CEO, inate.ai
- Pooja Viswanathan: CEO, Braze Mobility
- Preet Singh: Founder, Designx
- Rahul George: Director Delivery, mDrift Technologies
- Rain Takahashi: Founder and CEO, Jauntin
- Ramya Pingali: Founder + CEO, The Email Studio Inc
- Ravin Shah: Co-CEO & Founder, QuickTapSurvey
- Raymond Luk: CEO, Hockeystick
- Reuven Cohen: Managing Director, Alystic Holdings
- Reza Farhani: CEO, Katalyze AI
- Richard Hyatt: Co-founder, BlueCat Networks
- Richard Cristina: Co-founder (MentorLabs), Founder (Bloom), Bloom
- Richard Findlay: Cleantech Specialist Advisor, RFCL Innovations Inc.
- Robert Whiteside: Director, Founding Partner, Treemark Capital
- Robin Lindner: Co-Founder, KWFamous
- Rokham Sadeghnezhadfard: Founder, TheRedPin.com
- Ron Gentile: Founder, Moodfit
- Ron Benegbi: CEO, Uplinq Financial Technologies
- Roy Pereira: CEO and Founder, Zoom.ai
- Russ Armstrong: Head of Business Development, Boast.AI (Boast Capital)
- Russell Brand: CEO & Founder, Responsible Solutions Limited
- Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
- Ryan Perera: CEO and Co-Founder
- Samarth Chandola: Founder and CEO, Founder First Fund
- Sameer Sortur: Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures
- Sameer Khan: Sameer Ahmed Khan, Social Champ, Inc
- Sami Dalati: Cofounder, Brizi
- Sanjay Nediyara: Founder and CEO
- Sanjit Singh: COO, Various Companies
- Sara Bentham: Director, Georgian College Entrepreneurship Centre
- Sara Bingham: Associate Director, Laurier Women Entrepreneurship Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Sarah Stockdale: CEO, Valkerie
- Saroop Bharwani: CEO and Co-Founder, Senso (Techstars 2018)
- Sean Yo: Product Management Fellow, ISPMA
- Sergey Kalnish: CEO, SmartHire
- Seun Sanni: COO, PayFi
- Seymur Rasulov: CEO and Co-Founder, Whelp
- Sharf Zafar: Director, RBC Royal Bank of Canada
- Sharoon Thomas: CEO and Founder, Fulfil.io
- Sheetal Jaitly: CEO, TribalScale
- Sheikh Masud Iftekher: Key Account Controller, Ericsson Indonesia
- Shibin Muhammed: Portfolio Manager, Techstars Canada
- Shiju Radhakrishnan: Founder, CEO, Unremot
- Shiva Bhardwaj: Founder, CEO, Pitstop
- Slawek Potasz: CEO, CarScanner
- Sodruldeen Mustapha: Co-founder and CTO, Raenest
- Steve Dixon: SMB Leader (Canada), Apple
- Steve Brovchenko: Growth Lead, Amazon
- Stjepan Zelic: CEO, Hypefy
- Suhas Ghante: Entrepreneur, SVEthos
- Sunil Sharma: Managing Director, Founder Institute Toronto
- Tarun Sachdeva: GM, Wattpad
- Tasti Zakarie: Head of Engineering, Social Capital
- Tauseef Riaz: Cofounder ConsidraCare, Stock Target Advisor and Mashkraft, ConsidraCare.com
- Test Test, City of Brampton
- Thomas Park: Partner, BDC Deep Tech Fund
- Todd Finch
- Tom Lowden: Head of Labs, US East and Canada, WeWork Labs
- Tony Sabeta: Partner / Patent Agent, Aird & McBurney LP
- Torrey Smith: Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx
- Tovit Neizer: Chief Storyteller, Yellow Bricks
- Tracy Leparulo: Founder, Untraceable
- Trevor Longino: Founder & CEO, CrowdTamers
- Tugi Günes: Programs Lead, DMZ
- Tyler Bryden
- Uchi Uchibeke, Chimoney
- Vasily Nikonov: Founder & CEO, Velvet.Capital
- Vatsal Shah: Co-founder, CTO , Speak Ai
- Victor Wong: Managing Director, Operations, Flipp
- Vikas Gupta: CEO, AVARA
- Vladimir Pletyukhin: Founder and Creative Director, Launch Deck
- Wade Larson: CEO and Co-Founder, EarthDaily Analytics
- Will Greenblatt: Co-Founder & Managing Director, OutLoud Speakers School
- Will Moore: Senior Manager, PR and Communications, 1Password
- William Johnson: Writer and Publisher, Canadian Tech Journal
- Yang Yu: CEO and Founder, KitchenMate
- Yatin Jain: Founder & Consulting Partner, Jivaso Technologies
- Yehia Elkhouly: Founder, Parachute | Director Partnerships and Business Solutions, StackAdapt
- Yemi Oluseun: Growth & GTM For FinTechs, The Change Hive
- Zainab Williams: Founder
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 USD $1.75 billion.
After Graduation, the new Montreal Founder Institute portfolio alumni 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, build 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.
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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.
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