Presenting the Graduates of the Founder Institute Vancouver 2019 Cohort

The Vancouver Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Vancouver 2019 program.

Over 180 people applied to the program, and after an intense four months of business-building assignments and constant evaluation and feedback from mentors, just 6 companies were able to make it to graduation. 

Each of these Founders have demonstrated the high level of passion, perseverance, and creativity it takes to build a meaningful and enduring company, and have been vetted by a panel of Vancouver's top startup experts and investors.  

And now, without further ado, we present the Graduates of the Vancouver 2019 program: 

• Eco Meat - helping brands bring their social mission to life by optimizing their employees' carbon performance.
• iCooked - inspiring trust into homemade food and making it easier for young chefs to build their reputation. 

• MSP Techno-Concierge Inc. - providing tech peace-of-mind to small-business owners by automating systems management and data backup.
• Perk Eco Inc. - recycling coffee shop waste, generating new revenue and new customers for our member coffee shops.

• PolyForm - providing customer collaboration templates, training, and support for startups.
• ProtoMe - a recommendation system for clinicians to make more diagnostic decisions in less time.

The Vancouver 2019 program 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 Leaders of the Vancouver Founder Institute: Todd Embley (Partner, BoostXLabs), Wade Larson (Founder and Executive Vice President , UrtheCast Corp), and Kailin Che (Lawyer). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Vancouver that is conducive to building to great companies.

In addition, the Vancouver 2019 program was supported by some of Vancouver's top technology organizations, including: 

Some of Vancouver’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:

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 $1.85BN. 

After Graduation, the new Vancouver Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now 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, 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.

The next Vancouver Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/vancouver.

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.

See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.