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Sep 30, 2009 ·

San Diego / Orange County has Launched!

Sep 27, 2009 ·

2 More Partners - Kontagent, UserTesting.com

Sep 15, 2009 ·

TheFunded Founder Institute Graduates 54 Companies

Sep 14, 2009 ·

2 More Institute Partners - CVSDude, FusionCharts

Sep 08, 2009 ·

2 New Partners - Balsamiq, BrowserMob

Aug 30, 2009 ·

Another 2 Partners - SeisMK, New Relic

Aug 26, 2009 ·

2 New Partners - PBworks, Project Locker

Aug 25, 2009 ·

New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

Aug 24, 2009 · Resources

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The Founder Institute is the world’s largest agentic company builder, turning ideas into fundable startups, and startups into unicorns. Since 2009, the Founder Institute program has helped over 9,000 entrepreneurs build 9,000+ companies, including unicorns like Udemy and Esusu, raise over 2BN in funding, and grow a portfolio worth an estimated $20BN. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 95 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide. Learn more about the Founder Institute.