The Founder Institute, the World's Largest Entrepreneur Training and Startup Launch Program, is proud to announce the graduation of the Fort Lauderdale-Boca Raton Summer 2016 semester.
After an intensive, four-month program of expert training sessions, challenging company building assignments, and constant evaluation and feedback from experienced entrepreneur mentors, 8 meaningful and enduring companies were able to make it through the program to Graduation. Click here for more information on the recent Graduation.
The Fort Lauderdale-Boca Raton Summer 2016 semester Graduates now have a company, business idea, product plan, and path to growth fully validated by experienced startup founders. In addition, the Graduates are part of the prestigious Shared Liquidity Pool,and gain access to the Founder Institute's Global Network of over 1,500 companies and 4,000+ mentors spanning across 92 countries and six continents.
Each of these Founders has learned much during their time with the Founder Institute and demonstrated the high level of passion, perseverance, and creativity it takes to build a meaningful and enduring company.
And now, without further ado, we would like to wish the best of luck to:
- GameFace: an ecommerce subscription-based men’s personal care called ‘Nasty’ for athlete consumers.
- ONENESS: a solution for cities and marinas to meet their sustainability goals for water clean-up with proprietary line of green boats.
- SpeechMED: a voice and video information platform that gives people the ability to see and hear their medical information in their native language.
- Teak Health: the “mint.com” of medical health records striving for patient empowerment and provider solutions.
- Velatino: an internet video network exclusively curated for Hispanic audiences.
- Vendor Hive: centralized platform that manages information and transactions between festival event producers and retail vendors.
- VidTec: automated tool for digital marketers that converts products and other website content into videos.
- Winspire: a software solution to help people improve their people and leadership skills by partnering with Leadership Coaches.
This semester would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Toronto Founder Institute: Mark Volchek (Founder & Director, Higher One), Rodolfo Novarini (Global VP Services to Wireless Carriers, Brightstar Corp.), and Michel Triana (Partner, 1Apeiron). Our Local Directors play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment in New York that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, we would like to thank the Mentors of the Fort Lauderdale-Boca Raton Summer 2016 semester for providing expert training and feedback throughout the program. In particular, we would like to recognize:
- Alessandro Annoscia: Founder & CEO, 1Apeiron
- Bianca Diosdado: CEO, Octagon Talent Solutions | ITRADE STEM
- Blas Moros: Vice-President, Microsoft, South Asia
- Brian Boroff: Founder & CEO, AdFone
- Carlos Blanco: CEO, Pigs on the Roof
- Chris Stegner: Partner, Mad dev
- Chuck Malkus: CEO, Malkus Communications Group
- Dan Tiernan: COO, Campbell Property Management
- David H. Salmon: Principal, Salmon Legal Group, P.L.
- Dean Hatton: Founding Partner, Las Olas VC
- Deborah Johnson: President, Keiretsu Forum - Miami
- Don Lopes: Senior Vice President, Unify
- Esteban Reyes: Founding Partner, Las Olas Venture Capital
- Eugenio Beaufrand: COO, Microsoft, China
- Felipe Sommer: Founder & COO, Nearpod
- Gregory Sukornyk: Founder & CEO, Oli Labs
- Hugo Perez: Managing Partner, United Data Technologies (UDT)
- Juan Pablo Cappello: Co Founder, Private Advising Group
- Kerstin Holm: Founder & CEO, Summus Inc.
- Kubs Lalchandani: Co-Founder & Partner, Lalchandani Simon PL
- Mario Cruz: Founder & CTO, Choose Digital
- Mark Volchek: Founder, Las Olas Venture Capital
- Matthew Lally: CEO, Lex Lally Corp
- Michael O'donnell: Principal, StartupBiz.com LLC
- Michel Triana: General Partner, Mises Capital
- Mike Dannheim: Founder & CEO at SENSIE, Former VP at Groupon
- Nina Nikolic: CEO, Idea Capital
- Paul Lawler: Associate, Holland & Knight LLP
- Peter Livingston: General Partner, Unpopular Ventures
- Randy Wood: Co-Founder, Citrix
- Rob Strandberg: Founder & CEO, Datamax Inc
- Rob Delman: Managing Director, Golden Seeds
- Rodolfo Novarini: Director, Founder Institute South Florida
- Sally Outlaw: Founder & CEO, peerbackers.com
- Sergey Petrossov: Founder, Chairman & CEO, JetSmarter
- Stash Jacobs: Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
- Tim Hasse: Founder, General Provision, T R I M
- Timothy Cartwright: Chairman, Tamiami Angel Funds
- Will Perego: Founder & CEO
- Will Weinraub: CEO & Co-Founder, LiveNinja
The following partner of the Fort Lauderdale-Boca Raton Summer 2016 also deserve recognition for their generous support:
