The Penn West accelerator in partnership with the Founder Institute, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Penn West Fall 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 20 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Penn West's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Penn West program:
- Randao — Solves the onchain randomness problem for Web3 applications needing verifiable randomness for juries, lotteries, games, and more.
- Impact Ventures
- PaigeKares — Connects local families with trusted childcare providers.
- Mental Momentum — App helping knowledge workers focus faster and stay focused longer.
- Inttradia Inc
- CloutScore — Gives 70 million digital earners a FICO-aligned credit score based on verified digital income and reputation for bank underwriting.
- Data Pilots — Platform helping e-learning and development operators manage customer data responsibilities without stalling growth.
- The Laundry Basket — Veteran-founded, tech-enabled laundry pickup and delivery company coordinating services through trusted local partners.
- C1in — Provides novel microbial ingredients for agricultural input companies that decrease water consumption by up to 50%.
- Runwae — Travel platform helping individuals, groups, and event-goers plan, book, and experience trips together while earning rewards.
- Vigilic — AI-powered platform helping financial institutions detect, report, and prevent financial crimes with fewer false alerts.
- Immersivle — Immersive learning environment for instructors and students to effectively teach and learn technology.
- IPRights4All — AI and blockchain-powered tools making it easier and less costly for creatives to protect and monetize intellectual property.
- English from A to Z — Online platform connecting students worldwide with certified ESL teachers for accessible, affordable language education.
- The Nonprofit Office — Helps nonprofits with workplace and real estate strategy while connecting them with vetted partners and brokers.
- RentMatrix — AI-powered rental management platform automating maintenance, communication, and operations for property managers.
- Rohic — AI-native multi-agent orchestration platform for revenue teams with human-in-the-loop guardrails and audit-ready governance.
- ThePolyhistor — Mobile platform combining collaborative group travel planning with real-time family safety tracking.
- VEDEGO MEDIA INC
- NephroInnovate (DialysisHub) — Cloud-based workflow and data platform streamlining dialysis center operations through real-time insights and automation.
The Penn West Fall 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Penn West Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Penn West Founder Institute: Guc Ozenci ( Managing Partner, ConnectOp Consulting). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Penn West that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Penn West Fall 2025 program was supported by some of Penn West's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Penn West’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 Penn West 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 Penn West Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/penn-west.
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/graduates.
