Founder Institute

The Founder Institute is the largest pre-seed startup accelerator globally, established in 2009 by Adeo Ressi and Jonathan Greechan. It has facilitated the launch of over 3,500 companies across more than 180 cities on six continents. The organization was born from insights gained through TheFunded.com, highlighting the need for structure and support among early-stage entrepreneurs. Initially starting in Silicon Valley, the Founder Institute expanded rapidly due to significant interest from aspiring founders worldwide. The program is now offered in nine languages and has helped alumni raise over $800 million, with an estimated collective valuation of $20 billion. Additionally, the Founder Lab provides seed-stage startups with opportunities to refine their business pitches and strategies in Silicon Valley, culminating in the Founder Showcase, a major event connecting startups with investors and media.

Dustin Betz

Content and Community Manager

Benjamin Chong

Managing Director

Crocker, Curtis D.

Mentor

Harold Hughes

Director

Nima Kazerooni

Executive Director, Brazil

Cheryl Mack

Co-Director

Sajid Rahman

Director

22 past transactions

IndyGeneUS AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
IndyGeneUS AI is a Black-Owned & Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) genomics company creating the world’s largest digital blockchain-encrypted repository of indigenous and diasporic African clinical and genomic data. Our proprietary technology can detect novel signature sequences, biomarkers, and polygenic risk scores by integrating “multi-omics” data, electronic healthcare record (EHR) data, and textual information such as scientific manuscripts.

Moduly

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Moduly is an energy storage platform that focuses on virtual power plants for electric utilities. It centralizes residential energy activities and facilitates collaboration with electricity users to address issues like greenhouse gas emissions, energy overproduction, and peak demand costs. The platform helps residential and commercial users manage their electricity consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, shift usage away from peak hours and reduce expenses.

AI Retailer Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AI Retailer Systems (AIRS) is an award winning startup delivering computer vision technology to automate retailer processes in the areas theft prevention, shelf intelligence and smart checkout. AIRS is a ETH and HSG Swiss Universities spin-off with international deployments.

LeadZen

Pre Seed Round in 2020
LeadZen connects sector experts with buyers in their personal network to support in complex enterprise purchasing decisions. Experts on our platform can build reputation and traction for their knowledge in a technology domain and act as extended sales arm of the product companies. They can earn commission for the leads they generate. The platform focuses on trust and personal relationships and operates as social network.

MoveMate

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
MoveMate is an on-demand moving platform that connects users to everything they need for their move, whether it’s across town or across the world. We offer transparent pricing with an instant quote, updated in real-time, and vetted movers that help with your customised move.

Calixa

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Calixa provides an online retail platform for small brands in fashion and beauty. They offer dynamic, context-aware, and personalized shopping feeds for users with custom results.

LabsCubed

Pre Seed Round in 2018
LabsCubed helps companies create new and innovative materials.

krippit

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We are here to help you walk in heels easier on any surface. With our new innovative 3D printed high heel protector, you don't have to worry about damaging your favourite shoes. Krippit attaches to your high heel without damaging the surface of your shoe. The increased heel base improves your balance and comfort while using high heels. Our product is a prototype and patent pending. The longevity of this product varies, depending on the amount of use.

Streamline Genomics

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Streamline Genomics offers a platform to help clinicians and researchers benefit from genomic sequencing without the need for data analysis expertise. They offer a complete suite of tools required for your transcriptome & genome analysis. Their platform is easy to use and does not require programming knowledge. Their approach is to help you analyze your data and provide the required support.

The Hair Routine

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
The Hair Routine is a manufacturer of hair care products and a developer of a consumer platform to offer hair care guidance with data driven products. They offer a wide range of products, including moisturizers, nurture and repair treatment creams, shampoos, conditioners, combo packs, and more.

Ovamba Solutions

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Ovamba created a culturally astute risk measuring algorithm to better understand and serve Africans with financial services and capital for growth. They also created a natural language chatbot which allows Africans who do not speak english, french or Arabic to be able to apply for funding from Ovamba in their own language and receive business coaching to help them grow and run better businesses. The model blends Sharia & ethical business elements with eCommerce, logistics & warehousing to deliver full end-to-end services help grow SMEs operating in the trade sector. Ovamba also funds commodities and exports.

JITbase

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
JITbase is smart manufacturing software that calculates the optimal sequence of machinist activities on the shop floor. Being proactive, machinists manage more CNC machines and make informed decisions that lead to increased uptime.

Bridgr

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help

NUKERN

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
NUKERN is a Software as a Service, enabling web hosts and digital agencies to do more with their time. Nukern automates things that are needlessly complex and time-consuming for them, like the recurring billing and the web hosting account provisioning. Whether our clients use cPanel, Plesk, DigitalOcean or AWS - we automate the billing and provisioning for all platforms.

Roof AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Roof is a customer engagement platform that helps real estate brokers deliver a personalized digital experience at scale.

Unito

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Unito automatically synchronizes their projects, tasks, and conversations between different work management tools. The company is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamless collaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.

The FoodRoom

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
The FoodRoom is the first culinary coworking space of its kind in North America. Launched by Amelie Morency, then founder and owner of an eco-responsible catering service. She faced the hard reality of food business owners who can't afford state of the art kitchen facility. The FoodRoom wants to democratize the food industry by giving access to a professional production kitchen, multipurpose coworking space as well as meaningful events and workshops for growing a food business. The first kitchen opened its door on August 15th, 2016, in Montreal, Canada.

MakerBloks

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
MakerBloks manufactures and distributes electronic building blocks. The blocks consist of magnets and LEDs that assists its users in connecting and forming circuits, which can then be used to solve online puzzles. MakerBloks was founded in 2014.

Heddoko

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
At Heddoko, our mission is to reduce injuries and improve performance in all aspects of human movement by transforming movement data into actionable knowledge. We bring the power of 3D motion capture technology out of the laboratory and into the field, and treat all people as athletes to build stronger, more efficient teams – whether they are in the workplace or on the sports field. Our system – a smart suit embedded with motion-tracking sensors, and applications that model movement in real-time and provide actionable insights -- dynamically measures human movement in four distinct areas: Evaluation - Intervention - Prevention - Rehabilitation

Crema

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Crema is the new digital loyalty program for coffee shops. They are providing Starbucks coffee technology to small independent coffee shops. The app gives the ability to buy monthly coffee plans redeemable at the coffee shops in town. Users can earn crema points each time they order a new coffee.

Holoplex VR

Seed Round in 2013
Holoplex VR creates immersive and fully-interactive marketing solutions for luxury residential developers. The Holoplex VR experience offers buyers an unparalleled opportunity to explore and personalize their future home from the inside.
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