New Normal, New Opportunities: Applications Now Open to Founder Institute Western Canada Fall 2022

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 Western Canada's top investors and entrepreneurs, then apply to the Western Canada Fall 2022 Founder Institute today.

We will be hosting several free startup events in Western Canada 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

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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 Western Canada accelerator is led by some of the region's top startup leaders, including Chad Ford, Kailin Che, and Wade Larson. In addition, some of Western Canada's top entrepreneurs will be participating as mentors in the program, including:

Abdelrahman Bannora: Founder, Customer Experience, Glass Insight
Adam Spector: CEO & Founder, Chore
Adam Devenny: Senior Manager, XY Ventures
Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
Alan Campbell: Partnerships, Harvest Venture Builders
Alan Tay, Aurora Aerial
Alex Hobbs: CEO, Oxford Lock
Alex Gault: President, Small World Ventures
Amar Kurani: Partner, First Fund
Amit Varma: Co-Founder & CEO, BRAINTOY AI
Andrea Welling: Regional Director BC & Yukon, Futurpreneur Canada
Andy Chu: CEO, Vancouver Virtual Reality Film Festival
Anita Lee: Owner & Marketing Specialist, Catch Communications
Annika Lewis: Associate, Vanedge Capital
Arleigh Vasconcellos: CEO, Founder, The Agency
Ashley Dunfield: Founder & CEO, SmartGrid Communications
Aurelie Guerrieri: CMO, Open Systems
Ben Snyman: Founder, CEO , Safety Vantage
Benjamin Mak: Partner, Ridout & Maybee LLP
Bijan Vaez: Founder and CEO, FractionalCTO.ca
Blaire Martin: VP of Strategic Partnerships , Florida Funders
Boris Mann: Co-Founder, FISSION
Bosky Mukherjee: Founder, Spark to Substance
Brittany Whitmore: Founder/CEO, Exvera Communications Inc.
Bruce Linton: Founder and Former Chairman, Canopy Growth (formerly)
Bruce Croxon: Managing Partner, Round 13 Capital
Bryan Trottier: Owner, Trotco Electric
Bryan Duarte: Managing Partner, BlackTech Capital
Bryan Duarte: Co-Founding General Partner, BlackTech Capital
Canon Bryan: CFO, Terrestrial Energy
Carey Houston: Founder, CEO , 321Growth Academy
Casey Lau: Head of Asia, RISE (Web Summit)
Cassandra Hui: Founder , Heal Mary
Chad Ford: Vice President Innovation, Communica and Partner, Pactech Ventures, Director, Western Canada Founder Institute
Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
Chris Goward: Founder & CEO, WiderFunnel
Chris Hobbs: President, TTT Studios
Chris Marra: Partner, XY Ventures
Chris Anderson: General Partner, A2Z Ventures
Christian Gauthier: Partner , Bennet Jones
Christine Somerville: Senior Account Manager, Technology Industry, Self employed
Colin Weston: Founding Partner, Reviver Sport+Entertainment
Colin Brown: Co-founder & CEO, RevTech.ai
Connor Aylwin: District Manager- Startups, AWS
Damarys Zampini: Chief Executive Officer, Sustrategy
David Gardner: Head of Content Marketing, Harvest Builders
Dinah Davis: Founder, Code Like A Girl
Don Osborne: CEO, EarthDaily Analytics
Dr. Delbar Niroushak: Director , Win Your Opportunity
Drew Munro: Co-Founder & CEO, UpMeals
Ean Jackson: President, Analytics Marketing Inc.
Ed Levinson: Director, Ensibuuko
Edward Fan: Partner
Elaine Ann: Founder/CEO, Kaizor Innovation
Eric Anderson: CEO and Co-Founder, Theta
Erin Campbell: CEO, ECMB Capital Partners
Evan Hu: Founding Partner and G7 Associate, Creative Destruction Lab
George Kondopulos: Partner, XY Ventures
George Tai: Partner, Dentons
Gerry Li: Associate, Bennett Jones LLP
Grandy Chu: Founder and Designer , Atelier Grandi
Ha Nguyen: VP, McRock Capital
Hartland Ross: Founder, eBridge Marketing Solutions
Heiko Peters: CEO, TekEitri
Henry Soo: Founder & CEO, Settlely | Startup Grind Director
Hugh Evans: CEO, Cultural Dynamics Inc.
Ian Gilbert: CRO, TickSmith
Iida Cisecki: CEO and Founder, Quibbit
Isabella Taba: CEO , Co-Founder, Blue Dot Motorworks
Jack Gin: Corporate Director - Entrepreneur - Former CEO, Semios, Saltworks, Extreme CCTV
Jaethan Reichel: CEO and Co-Founder, Lightship
James Thangaraj: .GM, Pivot ED - BVC Venture
James Reyes: Vice President Global Sales & Marketing, Aquatic Informatics
Jason Wang: Lawyer, Securities & Capital Markets, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Jason Byrne: Founder & CEO, ICON-IQ
Jayson Wyner: Co-Founder, Nutrabolics
Jean Guy Faubert: CRO, SEDNA
Jeff Swan: Founder & CEO, RevUp Sales
Jeff Taylor: Corporate Lawyer , Bennett Jones
Jennifer Henry: Founder & CEO, Perk Eco Inc.
Joel Semeniuk: Vice President of Growth and Innovation, Communitech
Joel Fairbrother: Partner and Co-Founder, Bow River Law
John Chan: CEO, Managing Partner, 2x Growth Agency // 2x Ventures
Jordan Jocius: Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Founder Institute
Jordan Bettman: Partner, Radian Capital
Jordan Gutierrez: Co founder - COO, Wishpond, Laleo
Joseph King: Founder, Duck Labs
Kal Malhi: Founder and CEO, BullRun Capital Inc
Kamal Hassan: Founding Partner, Loyal VC
Kelby Price: Chief Operations Officer, YAT Group Inc.
Ken Charko: President , Dunbar Theatre/ Charko Investments
Kevin Conabree: Consultant, Management Consulting
Kevin Brent: Chief Investment Officer, Bluesky Equities
Kevin Kerr: CEO, Highwood Global
Kevin Kachidza: CEO, Sarafin AI
Kevin Corkum: CMO, The Ground Effect Consultancy
Kim Orlesky: President, KO Advantage Group
Konata Lake: Partner
Kookai Chaimahawong: VC Associate, Pangaea Ventures
Kris Versteeg: Impact Venture Partner, Founder Institute, Western Canada
Kristina Milke: Co-Founder, Self
Kwang Lim: Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
Lisa Payne: CFO, Mine Sense
Lorraine Wiseman: Vistage Chair/ President and CEO , Vistage Worldwide, Inc./ Leading the Wise Way Inc.
Lucas Tomei: Partner, Dentons
Luke Krueger: Co-Founder & President, Valhalla Private Capital/ Valhalla Angels
Mara Rada: Chief Operations and Strategy, Loon (loonbio.com)
Maria Yoma: Founder and CEO, ELEVATOR ventures
Maria Osipova: VP Marketing, Traction Guest
Mark Montalban: Founder & CEO, MindfulText
Mary Ryan: COO, PKI Capital [Private Family Office]
Mauricio Cardoso: Corporate Venture Manager, O POVO Communication Group
Mercedes Bankston: Founder, Funderstar LTD
Meredith J. Powell: Venture Parnter, Voyager Capital
Michael Bosdet: President, TSGI
Michael Sousa: CTO, Screenfluence
Mike Winterfield: CEO, Founder, Active Impact Investments
Mike De Boer: CEO, Founder, Levelling Up
Miranda Lievers: COO, Thinkific
Naresh Ravula: Founder , Home Kuisines
Neil Patel: CEO / Founder, Kabuni
Nicole Donnelly
Nicole Gallop: VP, Cultivate Advisors
Nicole Sanchez: Co-Founder, Ruth
Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
Oksana Irwin: Business & Executive Coach, Mars Venus Executive Coaching
Pankaj Bagga: Co-Founder and Director 👨🏻‍🏫, YES POS & Digital Fogg
Paul Austin: Partner, Fort Capital Partners
Peggy Van De Plassche: Managing Partner & Board Member, Roar Growth & Invest Canada
Pete Duggan: Executive Vice President Operations, UrtheCast Corp.
Pete Berdusco: President, Guyana Goldstrike
Peter Reek: Founder, Savvy + Associate
Phani Nagarjuna: President, HBSANC
Pouria Kay: Founding Partner, Atlan
Praveen Varshney: Director, Varshney Capital Corp.
Ray Torresan: CEO, /Archive Digital
Reina Mistry: Associate , Fasken
Richard Roseboom: Co-Founder & CEO, MicroMech Inc
Rob Attwell: Founder, COO/CFO, Careteam Technologies Inc.
Robert Stone: President, MrTaxes.ca Inc.
Robert Delamar: Co-Founder , KanataClean.com/Kamu.dev
Robert Foxall: Director of Business Development, Timia Capital
Robert E Purdy: Chairman and Founder, Purdy & Partners Inc.
Roberto Erario: Business and Leadership, Coach
Roger Hull: Business Development, Carbon Upcycling
Rohan Sampath: Cofounder & CEO, Copilot
Rohit Joshi: CEO, Founder, BrightSquid
Roman Karachinsky: CEO & Co-founder, News360
Ryan Smith: CEO, FTSY
Sam Sullivan: MLA of British Columbia and Former Mayor, Vancouver
Samarth Chandola: Founder and CEO, Founder First Fund
Sandi Gilbert: CEO & Board Member, Intergen & National Angel Capital Organization
Scott Larson: CEO, SpaceAlpha Insights
Scott Wallace: Founder, Wallace Wallace and Edward Properties
Sean Eikerman: Busniess Advisor, Cultivate Advisors
Shahrooz Nabavi: Partner
Stacey Wallin: Head of Growth, BC Tech
Stacey Wallin: Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Numinus
Stefan Chiasson: Associate Director, BDC Capital
Stefan Kruse: Lawyer, Segev LLP
Stephanie Wetterwald: Marketing Manager, Entreflow Consulting Group
Stephanie Blais: Principal , H&S Advisory
Steve Oldham: CEO, Carbon Engineering Ltd.
Steve Wandler: Founder, Metabridge
Sunil Sharma: Managing Director, Founder Institute Toronto
Tara Mc Laughlin: Founder, Paper Crane
Terry Sydoryk: CEO, Chaordix
Thealzel Lee: Founder, President & Director, e-Fund
Todd Embley: Senior Startup Advocate, Agora
Tom Petryshen: VP, Growth & Analytics, Rubberdesk
Tony Clement: The Hon. Tony Clement, Privy Council
Torrey Smith: Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx
Trent Johnsen: ., Pivot ED - BVC Venture
Tyler Douglas: Former Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, Vision Critical
Vaclav Vincalek: Technology entrepreneur, CTO and technology advisor for startups and enterprise, 555vCTO.com
Valerie Song: CEO, AVA
Van Doren Chan: President, Ugly Dumplings
Viviana Matheus: Director of Digital Strategy and Brand, Comm100
W. Brett Wilson: The one and only!, -
Yasmine Roulleau: Director, Ignite Fund
Yvonne Gruenthaler: Trade Commissioner, Global Affairs Canada

And many more to be announced.

Since 2009, Founder Institute’s highly-structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,800 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 $1.85BN in funding, and are building impactful businesses across 200+ cities and 100+ countries all across the globe. (see the FI 50 Report here).