Founder First, Founder Always. Join us in 2022: Founder Institute is the #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses.
Today’s economic 'New Normal' is full of reshuffling industries, and new problems in need of solutions - now is a time for entrepreneurs to act.
Whether you need to test and validate early hypotheses before making a large financial commitment to your startup idea, or you are ready to push your startup to the next level through aggressive weekly growth sprints to refine your vision, improve key metrics, and prepare for investor diligence, Founder Institute has the proven processes and network to help you do it.
If you could use a structured process that tells you what to focus on when, and a lifetime of support from Jamaica's top investors and entrepreneurs, then apply to the Jamaica 2023 Founder Institute today.
We will be hosting several free startup events in Jamaica over the coming weeks, where you can learn from top entrepreneurs all from the comfort of home:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
Make better, faster business decisions in 2022 by sharing your latest progress, challenges, and strategies for constant feedback and evaluation from our expert mentors and advisors, every step of the way–scale your team, develop new business opportunities, and recruit an amazing advisory board with the world's largest network of international startup founders, CEOs, advisors, and investors.
The Jamaica accelerator is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Dominique Ferguson (Administrative Manager, AltCatalyst), FI Jamaica, Michael Gordon (Chief Innovation Officer, University Of The Commonwealth Caribbean Limited), Taneallea Feddis (Founder/ Managing Director, BlackWall Consultants), Tennille Howell Hussey (CEO JANJEE, Founder, Director, UCC Business Development & Consulting Institute), Wayne Beecher (Chief Executive Officer, Founder, AltCatalyst). In addition, some of Kingston's top entrepreneurs will be participating as mentors in the program, including:
- Almando Cox: Founding CEO, ResolveIT Limited
- Althea West Myers: Founder & Chief Strategist, Growth Partners Ltd.
- Andrea Livingston Prince: Chief Project Manager, Business Works Collective
- Christopher Reckord: Chief Executive Officer, tTech Limited
- Christopher Brown: Lead Project Manager, Development Bank of Jamaica
- Don Samoil: Managing Partner, Trusted Scale
- Donovan Robertson: Co-Founder, CCSI Group - Community Capital Social Investment Group
- Franklin Kamnang Ngansop: Co-Founder, Vitamin CS Coaching
- Herbert Hall: Chief Executive Officer, Ambassador Capital Partners Limited
- Hopeton Nicholson: Business Development Manager, Exim Bank
- Ian Hemming
- Larkland Morley: Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Google
- Michael Gordon: Chief Innovation Officer, University Of The Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) Lim
- Michael Gordon: CEO, Fintechlab
- Nadine Campbell: Founder | Strategic Consultant , ACE Entrepreneurs
- Paul Chin: Investor Relationships Manager, Development Bank of Jamaica Limited
- Racheal Callaghan: Digital Strategist/Managing Director, Start Social Ltd
- Richard Kildare: CEO, Graphene Rock Capital
- Rohan Johnson
- Sharleen Clarke Curah: Motivational speaker, HR Management DTI
- Ugo Ikemba: Founder, Mscale LLC
- Violet Palmer: CEO and Lead Consultant, Paul Bel Kay
- Wayne Beecher: Co-Director Jamaica, Founder Institute
- Winsome Leslie (PhD): CEO and Founder, DevSolutions Consulting, LLC
- And many more to be announced.
Since 2009, Founder Institute’s highly-structured accelerator programs have helped over 9,000 entrepreneurs to grow quickly, know what to do next, and make key connections through the largest community of startup advisors in the world.
It all starts with our renowned ‘FI Core’ accelerator, which pushes founders at the idea and pre-seed stages to reach the milestones needed for investment and sustained growth. Alumni of FI Core then receive free access to our advanced ‘Founder Lab’ accelerators for years to come, and can get matched with prospective investors in the FI Venture Network - a collection of global funds actively investing in the earliest rounds of funding.
Join us in Jamaica to get funded and build a global business.
Apply to the Jamaica 2023 Founder Institute today, or learn more at FI.co/overview.
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