The Founder Institute, the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program, is in the final stage of testing demand for opening a new semester in Chennai for the Fall of 2015.
The testing phase ends soon (Sep 27, 2022), so if you'd like to help bring a new semester to Chennai, please fill out this form today and spread the word. It only takes five minutes, and there is no obligation.
Over the last few weeks, the feedback we have received in Chennai has been positive, and we have received a large amount of support from local startup and economic development organizations. In addition, we have reached out to some of the area's top technology entrepreneurs to support the program.
We are humbled by the list of top local and global entrepreneurs that have pledged their support to mentor new companies in a Chennai Founder Institute program.
This list of entrepreneurs includes:
- Anu Hasan: Director, AH Positive Limited
- Ashok G: CEO & Co-founder, STARTUP360 India
- Atul Yadav: Founder, Reclayu
- Bharath M. S: Founder, Kria Law
- Bhoo Thirumalai: Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Aspiration Energy
- Boniface Pascalraj: Director, Founder Institute Chennai
- Chandrashekar Kupperi: Founder, ANOVA Corporate Services Private Limited
- Dhenesh R: Head Clinical Operations, Mehta Multispecialty Hospitals India Private Limited
- Dimitris Polychronopoulos: Former Oslo Chapter Director, FI Mentor
- Dr N Raveendran Narasimhan: Principal Consultant, Xsentinel Risk and Claim Advisory pvt Ltd
- Gopi Mattel: Founder CEO, MaxBlox, Inc.
- Jahabar Sadique: Co-Founder & CEO, Chai Kings
- Jay Duraisamy: CTO | SVP Technology , Fiserv
- Kayar Raghavan: Lead Angel Investor, Multiple Angel Networks
- Lakshmidevi Somanath: Partner, Surana & Surana International Attorneys
- Naveen Puttagunta: Co-founder and CEO, Divami Design Labs
- Prabhu Rangarajan: Co-founder, M2P Fintech
- Pramod Harith: Founder, CMO Axis Outsourcing Services
- Rajiv Bansal: Founder, CEO, Opoyi
- Ramkumar Rs: Director, RSR Innovations
- Sam Mehta: Chairman, the Atlas Family Office
- Sriram Bharadhwaj: Serial Entrepreneur, Technologist, Strategist & Mentor, Smartemes Capital Advisors LLP
- Sudhir Ravindran: Attorney-At-Law, Solicitor (England & Wales), Altacit Global
- And many more to be announced.
In the Founder Institute's structured, step-by-step program, these mentors will provide promising startup entrepreneurs in Chennai with expert feedback and support to build their companies. In addition, participants are not required to quit their day job to participate, so they can begin building a business around their ideas without putting their livelihood at risk.
If we get enough demand to officially launch a Chennai 2022 semester, then we will secure approximately 10 - 20 additional mentors. In fact, in most Founder Institute semesters the ratio of Mentors to Founders is greater than 1:1.
Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200 cities and 100 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 9,000 companies form and improve their business ideas, develop their marketing strategy, create an advisory board, recruit co-founders, improve their pitch, launch a product, prepare to raise capital, bootstrap to profitability, generate revenue, and more.
Help bring a new semester to Chennai and fill out an Interest Form today.
