New Normal, New Opportunities: Applications Now Open to Founder Institute Jamaica 2023

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:

How to Find the First Customers for Your Startup Idea: 11:00am, Aug 11, 2026 (America/Bogota): https://FI.co/e/403236
How to Get Customer Feedback on your Startup Idea in the Age of AI: 11:00am, Aug 18, 2026 (America/Bogota): https://FI.co/e/403401
Leading The Caribbean Region Into The Future of Work: 5:00pm, Aug 20, 2026 (America/Bogota): https://FI.co/e/404027
Stop Guessing, Start Raising: An Investor Q&A: 11:00am, Sep 01, 2026 (America/Bogota): https://FI.co/e/403871
How to Create a Great First Startup Pitch using AI: 7:30pm, Sep 14, 2026 (America/Bogota): https://FI.co/e/403540

See all upcoming events

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 Adanna John (Communications Manager, Founder Institute Caribbean), Caribbean Associate (NA, NA), Nike Schmidt (Program Manager, Founder Institute Caribbean), Rawle Annandsingh (Managing Director, Founder Institute Caribbean). In addition, some of Kingston's top entrepreneurs will be participating as mentors in the program, including:

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.

The results speak for themselves: FI Alumni have raised over 2BN in funding, and are building impactful businesses across 200+ cities and 100+ countries all across the globe. (see the FI 50 Report here).