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The Founder Institute proudly partners with organizations that support global startup ecosystem growth and provide our Founders with millions in discounted and free services.

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FI Alumni Offers

Learn how to train like a Pro with 15% off FightCamp Personal or Tribe packages. Home fitness have never been more fun.
Autobound's B2B sales intelligence platform suggests fully composed, expert sales messaging for persona-based outreach. [40% off for FI startups for 3 months]
Subly simplifies the process of adding subtitles to your video
Meetgeek.ai is a virtual meeting assistant that helps teams improve their online meetings, save valuable time and maintain focus by structuring their meeting agendas, automatically summarizing meeting notes and distributing tasks. <p>In addition, ...
Utobo is the simplest platform for creating online courses, taking live meetings/classes, and selling them through an automatically generated stunning e-commerce website.
Empower your team with career guidance and support to help them thrive in their role and careers. Through one-on-one virtual sessions with vetted industry Insiders, your employees will get career guidance that is personalized to their goals and ro...
Implementing Diversity and Inclusion efficiently and effectively, Equalicert helps your company reach its hiring and retention goals as well as ESG and UNSDG standards. Receive an Inclusion certificate upon completion.
Borderless Intelligent Talent Portal gives you instant match to pre-vetted Tech Talents that fit your budget. FI Companies get up to $10,000 hiring credits for first 5 hires.
Chargerzilla is a leading Electric Vehicle (EV) charging location search and booking platform that allows residential and commercial property owners to rent out their charging facilities to EV owners. They also enable home and property owners to...

Product/Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services provides Founder Institute Founders with $10K USD in AWS credits valid for 1 year and more. (Offer is country-specific.)
The Google Cloud Platform is offering up to $100,000 USD to qualified Founders. If you are a fairly new startup, a new Spark program is being instituted allotting 20,000 USD for Founders. Only for publicly funded companies.
Softonix is a progressive outsourcing company that provides full-cycle custom web and mobile app development services. 35 world-class experts on board, 7+ years as an average number of professional experience, and 99% Success Rate on Clutch & Upwork.
Miro is the most intuitive online collaborative whiteboard platform for distributed teams.
ConceptDrop connects companies with an invite-only community of elite creative professionals. Get agency-quality presentations, marketing and sales assets in as little as 12 hours.
Springboard and UX Design Career Tracks matches companies like yours with UI/UX Design Consultants—working professionals with expertise in adjacent areas (marketing, research, coding, visual design, etc...) who are up skilling through our advanced...
Nylas is a developer API platform that helps you build productivity features directly into your applications.
Hexabitz is a one-stop shop for building modular and customized electronic hardware. We support you all way from early product inception to mass production
Hatch Duo is an industrial design and product engineering that helps startups bring their products to life. Whether you need your napkin sketches realized, or a marketable version of your prototype, we partner with you to design and launch product...
Polyform Studio is a design agency that transforms tech breakthroughs, business needs, trends, user feedback, & crazy ideas into digital consumer products that define categories.
Dedicated creative resource and fractional CMO for technology-driven start-ups. LSS is here to assist with your ongoing sales, marketing and investor needs, including brand strategy, design, copywriting, web and pitch presentations.
Kworq is a Creative Agency based in New York City. They work with brands both big and small, including startups who have graduated from our Institute. Kworq believes in the importance of two things: story &amp; informed design. Whether it&rsquo;s ...
Subject7 is a zero coding automation cloud and on-prem platform. It integrates with all major devops and CI/CD pipelines.
nResult is an innovative software testing company, where they act as an extension of your team. They are providing discounts on any offered testing service, as well as a free consultation for FI alumni. More information on how to redeem can be fou...
MongoDB for Startups provides Founder Institute Founders with $5000 worth of free cloud credits valid for 1 year and more.
StartupSoft is a staff augmentation company that helps startups build their offshore teams. These teams are selected and integrated in such a way that they feel and perform like your very own.
NodeSource N|Solid is the safest and most secure platform for running Node.js applications.

CRM/Marketing

FI Alumni can apply for HubSpot's accelerator + 90% off HubSpot's Entire Growth Suite of Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service Software for Eligible Seed-Stage Startups (you must log in to get the application link)
Boost your startup journey with leading customer and employee engagement solutions from Freshworks including CRM, LiveChat, Support, Marketing automation, Project Management, and HRMS. The Founder Institute Alumni startups are eligible for up to $...
50K USD of credit for FI Alumni Companies. Segment is a customer data infrastructure (CDI) platform that helps you collect, clean, and control your customer data.
Zendesk is a customer service platform designed for companies that want to create customer relationships that are more meaningful, personal, and productive.
Quoqo is a next-gen platform providing the best contracting and negotiation solutions for growing businesses, globally.
Clipchamp is the world's first in-browser video creation platform for startups!
Growthdriver has developed a custom sales and marketing outreach system that delivers qualifies leads that will increases the growth of your business. Our best in class technology will supercharge your sales funnel and generate high quality leads ...
Palo Alto Software is the world's leading business planning software and it offers to Founder Institute Graduates 50% off from their Business Plan Pro along with other business and marketing planning solutions.
We build sales funnels, drive traffic, and execute marketing automation solutions for some of the fastest growing companies online. If you’re selling physical products, software, services, or coaching; we’ve got a conversion-based business model ...
Verblio is a content platform that provides content marketing and SEO by creating high-quality content for leading digital marketers through its network of 3,000+ U.S.-based writers.Founder Institute Graduates can save 50% on your 1st month of con...
Dotmailer is an omnichannel marketing automation platform that allow you to import data, build segments and triggers, and create relevant marketing campaigns that engage your customers on their favorite channels.Dotmailer offers FI founders an exc...
With Contento you can automate the content your customer wants to see on social media. No unnecessary bells and whistles, but an all-in-one solution that will move your social media needle. (1 month free for FI Network)
Marketing Dashboard that pulls together content scheduling, publishing, task management, analytics, a marketing calendar and more – across all your channels.
Whitevox is a digital marketing agency, which gives a variety of digital marketing and web design services. Founder Institute grads are eligible to receive 3% off their first fixed cost contract or 5% off their first Man and Materials contract.
MobileAction is an all-in-one app marketing insights and intelligence platform helping companies to grow their apps.
Lander offers FI Founders 15% off on any plans for 3 months after the trial.
30YRS, Inc. is a digital advertising agency that specializes in helping startups increase their sales using a unique Facebook advertising formula called ... "The BIG AD Formula"
Join over 12,000 business using Help Scout as a customer support tool, leading to more satisfied customers and higher renewal rates. Benefit from 6 months Free of their Plus Plan with up to 10 users.
Monday.com is a Work OS that provides you with all of the no-code building blocks to shape your workflows in your way. You can run every aspect of your work by layering industry-specific products on top of the Work OS.
Levy is your startups operations team for HR, compliance, finance, and equity. It makes no sense for a founder to handle back-office ops or hire an internal FTE. Levy saves founders on average 40 hours a month (3 months a year!)
Erudit uses AI to gather engagement, sentiment and Diversity and Inclusion data from 100% of your team daily - without any surveys. The result is a shorter feedback loop to ensure managers and HR initiatives align with team needs in real time.Driv...

Finance/Legal

Stripe’s platform enables companies around the world to accept payments, expand globally and create new revenue streams. Founder Institute graduates are eligible for $20,000 of fee-free payment processing. More information how to redeem the credit...
MainStreet automatically claims tax credits, and advances interest-free capital, on behalf of startups. More simply put, we turn tax credits into immediate cash flow for founders. Most companies save $51,000 in under 45 minutes.
DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps professionals build relationships and close business. DocSend is offering up to 90% discount from Standard or Advanced subscriptions for new, FI affiliated, users.
Xendoo is an innovative cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting platform focused on helping small businesses.
Finta is a secure online, cloud-based, operations center for your start-up. Founder Institute companies get a special friends & family discount to the platform.
Foundersuite brings structure, speed and efficiency to fundraising and investor relations. Get 20% off any Annual Subscription (which already has a 10% discount baked in). This includes access to the entire platform, and includes multiple users at...
Mattermark and FI's partnership offers Founders 3 months free service service in exchange for information on your company and an integration with Google Analytics.
Create your cap table in a matter of minutes with Astrella. Our easy-to-use software allows for quick setup to get you on the fast track to effective cap table management. Simply enter your ownership information for access to outstanding cap table...
Hanson Bridgett is a law firm with more than 150 attorneys in offices in San Francisco, Sacramento, the North Bay, the East Bay and Los Angeles. Serving clients since 1958, they are well known in Northern California and have earned a national repu...
Forecastr is online software that helps founders forecast revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers & get funded.
Deel streamlines worldwide payments for international teams, empowering companies to hire contractors and employees globally. Their companies get access to numerous perks to help their company hire anyone, anywhere in just a few minutes, with worl...
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is a U.S. law firm and lobby group based in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2021, the American Lawyer ranked the firm as the 71st largest law firm in the nation based on 2020 gross revenue. It is the largest law...
With total assets of close to $700 million, Grasshopper is a client-first digital bank serving founders, their companies, and the investors supporting them across the innovation economy. Grasshopper replaces the traditional one-size-fits-all appro...
Thoropass is the complete solution for building and automating your compliance program. Benefit from their compliance automation platform and expert services to get and stay compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other infosec ...
Doola helps global entrepreneurs easily set up an LLC, C Corp, or DAO LLC in the U.S. (all 50 states) with support including EIN, U.S. address, U.S. bank account, payment gateway, and ongoing state compliance and IRS tax filings

Accelerators/Events

Founder Institute graduates can receive exclusive support during the application process for Techstars. More information on this partner can be found in your alumni profile.
Digital Ocean Hatch is a startup program designed to support startups as they launch and scale.
4 Years from Now [4YFN] is one of the world's most influential startup events, and provides a platform for startups, investors, and corporations to make a global impact.
ChangeNOW is the largest positive-impact gathering in the world. 20,000 participants introduce over 1,000 actionable solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems and fuel the social and environmental revolution.
ScaleUP USA’s Federal Business Accelerator helps startups and small businesses establish and grow their federal government practice in the world’s largest, $10T marketplace. Self-paced, no equity dilution, and available globally.

Logistics

WeWork is revolutionizing the way people and companies work. Get flexible workspaces, agile services, and leading technologies to move your business forward. More information how to redeem the offer from WeWork is available in your alumni profile
(1st Month Free or up to 15% for 1-Year) Upsuite is the easiest way to office for startups. Upsuite offers modern, well-appointed offices that are conveniently located for your startup, that meet your business’ budget, and on your terms. Upsuite...
SourceSelect is a 20 Year old Supply Chain and Logistics company that has partnered with The Founder Institute to provide a cost effective and seamless manufacturing and distribution Infrastructure to allow startup companies to get to market quickly.

Other Partners

Notion is an application that provides components such as notes, databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars and reminders.
Dialpad is an Ai-powered cloud communication platform that makes it easier and more efficient to connect and collaborate with your team.
YouCanBook.me is a fast growing SaaS scheduling tool. It specializes in customer success, onboarding, sales and recruitment teams managing their customer appointments. To date they’ve processed over 25 million bookings and can boast some of the bi...
Founders Network is a global ecosystem of startup founders. With more than 600 founders and 25 chapters worldwide, Founders Network’s mission is to facilitate strong professional relationships, resource and knowledge sharing, and other practical b...
A virtual office for remote teams
One Month brings you the best online coding courses designed specifically for beginners. Learn python, html, javascript and other programing languages with our fun online videos, coding bootcamps, and mentors
Unlimited Downloads, users, and flexible licensing from over 12M high-quality stock images and 200K HD/4K video assets
Agora is a leading video, voice and live interactive streaming platform, helping developers deliver rich in-app experiences. The Agora for Startups program can offer 500k up to 1,000,000 minutes for approved early-stage startups (pre-seed/seed, ra...
The Phaze API is the easiest way to disperse payouts in 130+ countries in the form of prepaid digital gift cards from over 2,000+ top brands such as Amazon, Visa and MasterCard directly from any platform. Phaze API enables companies so they ca...
The Women in Tech Global Conference brings women in technology, minorities, and allies from all over the world together uniting 100,000 people from 172 countries, featuring live keynotes, networking, startup pitches, training, engaging panels, b...
Voiceform is the fastest way to collect and analyze feedback from your customers or target audience. See how Voiceform helps you collect 4x more feedback, and increase response rates on your feedback surveys and forms to help you build and launch ...
Access on-demand executives and board members from a diverse talent network and scale your company with mentor-driven programs. Bolster Prime is for the startup CEO who is ready to scale, learning from experienced mentors, with participants also c...
Circle is a decentralized data security platform that allows you to implement credential-free data access and end-to-end data security in your applications with no code/low code in minutes.
Airmeet is a premium webinar and online event platform helping B2B brands create captivating and memorable experiences that grow revenue and customer loyalty. Airmeet for Startup helps organisations achieve their business goals at a fraction of cost.