Build a Silicon Valley startup in Hamburg!
The Founder Institute, the world’s premier pre seed startup accelerator, is coming to the hanseatic city of Hamburg in 2019!
The Founder Institute is an early-stage startup program that is based out of Silicon Valley, and designed to help motivated people take the first steps towards entrepreneurship. The Founder Institute has successfully helped produce startups like Udemy and TravelCar in more than 200+ cities worldwide.
If you have a startup-idea and would like to validate it, or are already running a tech company and need guidance from experts, make sure you apply for the Hamburg Founder Institute today.
Or, you can join one of the free startup events that we plan to organise in the startup hubs of the city like Betahaus and WeWork:
- Founder Institute Online Information Session: https://FI.co/infosession
A challenging program to increase your chance of success
The Founder Institute is an exclusive and challenging four-month startup-launch program, that provides aspiring entrepreneurs with weekly feedback by Founder Institute Mentors from the Hamburg startup ecosystem.
With Founder Institute we want you to make the progress of 1.5 years in just 4 months and in the end of the program, you will be building an enduring business.
But the best is: It doesn’t just stop after the program. Taking part in the program will give you special access to a great network of high-level mentors and a variety of funding options with our accelerator and investment-partners. These benefits are definitely exclusive for Founder Institute graduates and should make building a successful startup a lot easier.
An experienced director-team and well-connected mentors
The Local Hamburg Director team comprises of Hauke Windmüller (Head of Growth at moovel, Managing Director at Familonet), Bjoern Fedder (Chief of Staff at Wunder Mobility) and Rachit Shadra (Head of Marketing at Wunder Mobility). They come onboard with a passion to help Founder Institute participants with their experience and support to create meaningful and enduring tech companies.
Along with them, they bring on board tech founders from the Hamburg startup ecosystem who have already established sustainable companies, have raised more than 100m+ in funds and exited to high profile companies like Daimler and Airbnb. The list goes as follows:
- And more TBA!
There is limited space in the Hamburg program, and time is of the essence!
Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 180+ cities worldwide, the Founder Institute provides high-potential entrepreneurs and teams with the critical support network and structured process needed to build an enduring company. Since 2009, the program has helped over 3,300 Graduates raise over $700M funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more.
Apply to the Hamburg Founder Institute today at FI.co/apply/hamburg.
