Founder Institute Silicon Valley Summer Virtual 2021 Launches 19 New Tech Companies

The Silicon Valley Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Silicon Valley Summer Virtual 2021 program.

Over 1200 entrepreneurs applied to the summer 2021 Silicon Valley program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just 19 companies were able to make it through. The newest SV Alumni invite members of the public to join them live for an online graduation event Wednesday, September 22nd, featuring a keynote address by special guest Phil Libin, Co-Founder & CEO of mmhmm and All Turtles, and Co-Founder & Former CEO of Evernote.

Each of these SV program Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of top Silicon Valley startup experts and investors.  

And now, without further ado, we proudly present the Summer 2021 Alumni of the Silicon Valley program: 

• Microfinance Pro

• Bleat Fleet

• Chamaeleon Software

• Clay2o

• CloudKeys

• Coachee

• Doc-Knock

• Finder Pets

• J Squared Innovations

• JoyBella 

• Jude Mark

• Know Your Crypto

• Meditrina Technologies

• Simphoni

• Standpoint

• StripMall

• SynERGie Tech

• VoiceTech Labs

• Zemangat

The Silicon Valley Summer Virtual 2021 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 Silicon Valley Founder Institute: Mike Suprovici, Ryan Micheletti, and Scout Tweedie-Yates. Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Silicon Valley that is conducive to building to great companies.

In addition, the Silicon Valley Summer Virtual 2021 program was supported by some of Silicon Valley's top technology organizations, including:

Some of Silicon Valley’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 2BN. 

After Graduation, the new Silicon Valley 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, building a co-founding team, 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 Silicon Valley Virtual Fall 2021 Founder Institute program is enrolling founder applicants now. If you are interested in learning more or applying by October 3rd, visit FI.co/apply/silicon_valley.

Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 2BN 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.