Founder Institute

A company or trend you admire + a market or problem you care about = your next startup idea We built a free AI tool that finds those combinations for you Try it: startup-idea-engine.fi.co

You've been thinking about that idea long enough. Time to find out if it's real. The Startup Ideation Bootcamp is a 2-week program where you'll brainstorm ideas, validate them with real customers, and pitch to 30+ experienced mentors and investors. By the end, you'll know whether to go all-in or move on. That beats another year of wondering. Apply here: fndri.com/4rqF5WE

Aonic (FI Penang) secured $10M in Series A funding led by Kairous Capital to scale its end-to-end drone solutions for agriculture and industrial sectors globally. The company designs and manufactures its own drones and software in-house, and has grown at triple-digit CAGR since 2022. Congratulations to the Aonic team on the milestone! Read more: technode.global/2026/03/04/mal…

Busy and productive are not the same thing. We built a free 3-minute quiz that scores you across 6 areas and tells you exactly where you're leaking time and which AI tools will fix it. 12 questions. 4 levels: Reactive, Developing, Systematic, Elite. You get a personalized score, a category breakdown, and an AI-generated analysis of your biggest bottleneck. Find out where you stand: productivity-analyzer.fi.co

AI is not complicated. You just need to know how to set it up right. The Open Claw AI Productivity Bootcamp: → Set up a 24/7 AI assistant for research, writing, and workflows → Build a real app with no code → 5 live sessions, March 10–19 Led by @adeoressi, 10X entrepreneur & investor. Presented by @govclab. Apply → fi.co/bootcamp/vibec…

Thinking about our hustle. How we're easily overwhelmed by the build, the marketing, selling, while worrying about social media, AI, taxes, funding, and regulation. Try something with me. Our future is shaped by founders ❤️ Business owners who deliver what we need and create jobs in our community. Startup entrepreneurs working to change things for the better. The founders of ourselves and our families. Whether for work, a new venture, or our lives, we hustle too much. Take a moment today and go through this. By yourself or with a team. Take a break from the hustle and the incessant tips, advice, blog posts, and podcasts telling you what needs to be done. I asked Daniyal Ashraf to turn an idea into an opportunity, and in thinking about what Founder Institute does for people, take 5 minutes with this. Stop pitching. Stop selling. Stop pushing. 1. Why do you do what you do that is economically inevitable? 2. Who are you? Warts and all. 3. Why now? What does the future hold? Think about timing. 4. Consider Where - where you live, why there, and where you work. 5. Only then, explain What it is and How it works for you and for others. Instead of pushing what you think matters, find your gaps, weaknesses, and where you need help. Then tell that story and ask for it. We put this infographic together to help. Print it. Share it. Often the path to success is not in what we can but what we can't. We're all founders. What helps is knowing how we need help 🙏 If feeling ready, share your story. Connect with @founding to help others, to learn, or think. Reach out to me, I want to help, and I need help.

200+ founders have already taken part in the Startup Ideation Bootcamp, and it's back for another round. In just 5 weeks, you'll create, validate, and pitch your startup idea with expert mentors, real customers, and AI tools. Great ideas aren't born. They're built. Apply now → fndri.com/4qpNBo6

The Early Bird deadline for the next Vibe Coding Startup Bootcamp is this Sunday, Feb 8th. We've been adding new perks to the next cohort based on feedback, including more AMA and mentoring sessions, partnerships with Lovable and Replit for free and discounted access, and a brand new Vibe Product Demo Day where top projects get showcased to potential collaborators and investors. Due to high demand, pricing goes up on Monday and we're capping enrollment to keep the experience personalized. If you've been thinking about it, now's the time: fndri.com/4qkRlY0

Beyond being a founder, Evan is one of the highest-rated mentors across Founder Institute Australia & New Zealand. He always goes out of his way to help the next generation of entrepreneurs in the region. Congratulations to the Checkbox team!

Evan Wong, Co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, bootstrapped the company for years. Now with backing from Touring Capital, Peak XV Partners, Conductive Ventures, Tidal Ventures, Five V Capital, and angel investors including Jerry Ting, Checkbox is at the forefront of AI's transformation of the legal industry.

AI is completely transforming the global legal industry. Hitachi now partially or fully-automates 83% of their routine legal and compliance requests through AI, thanks to Checkbox. @CheckboxAI (FI Australia-NZ) just raised $23M to scale their "AI Legal Front Door" platform to capture, manage, and automate legal work.

You don't need to learn to code. You need to learn to build. Here are 5 tools to turn your idea into a product: Replit — Build apps in your browser using AI. No setup needed. Claude — Learn concepts, get answers, and delegate coding tasks in plain English. Supabase — Your app's database, user logins, and file storage in one place. Stripe — Accept payments, subscriptions, and invoices. n8n — Automate workflows between your apps and tools. Ready to bring your idea to life? Join our Vibe Coding Bootcamp: fndri.com/4a5cvo6

You don't need a technical team to build your first product anymore. The Vibe Coding Startup Bootcamp takes you through a structured step-by-step process to scope, build, and test a prototype of your startup idea. No coding necessary. In 2 weeks, you'll: → Set up your AI "system" of tools, integrations, and automations → Use AI and No-Code tools to launch a first product to test your business hypothesis → Start testing your product with customers to get feedback and clarity on your next iterations → Avoid the most costly and time-consuming mistakes for AI product development 6 live online sessions with hands-on AI tool demos and real-time expert guidance. Apply now: fndri.com/4qVM3mN

Applications close tomorrow. The Startup Co-Founder Bootcamp helps you find and "test-drive" your co-founder relationship. ✅ Meet potential co-founders with complementary skills and shared values ✅ Build a compatibility score to improve co-founder matching success ✅ Reduce the risk of choosing the wrong co-founder ✅ Discover your unique Entrepreneur DNA and strengths Apply now 👉 fi.co/bootcamp/cofou…

Proud to support Esusu (FI San Francisco) as it enters its next phase of growth with a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation. Esusu continues to lead the industry in credit building and economic mobility for millions of renters nationwide. Learn more here: cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esu…

Build a great startup idea through expert feedback and a proven process. The 5-week Startup Ideation Bootcamp helps you: ✅ Validate your idea with 30+ experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors ✅ Connect with potential co-founders, advisors, and partners ✅ Build a pitch and get feedback at a live Pitch Showcase ✅ Access AI tools, templates, and frameworks to move faster Deadline to apply: December 7th Apply now 👉 fndri.com/48AuroT

We just raised $9M to kill busywork and give reps their time back! 🥳 3 years ago, I watched a top sales rep waste a whole day on manual data entry instead of talking to customers. That ends now. We built @jeeva_ai agents to handle the 75% of sales time wasted on things that do not require human judgment: - Prospecting, - Data enrichment, - Follow-ups, and - CRM updates. The impact? - Pipeline doubled in 3 months. - Teams achieving 10x productivity. One client: "If you rip Jeeva out, our pipeline dies." This round was led by @JLL Spark with participation from Jack Altman's Alt Capital, Sapphire Ventures, GTMfund, and more amazing partners! This is just the start. We are expanding into calling and building AI co-workers for every function. Read more about our journey (and who invested!) in Business Insider. (Link in the next thread) Want to focus on building relationships instead of spreadsheets? Comment “JEEVA” and I will give your Sales Team - 1 month of Jeeva Pro for FREE. Comment "Deck" and we'll DM you the Series A Deck. Let's change the way we work. #AI #SalesTech #VentureCapital #SeriesAFunding #FutureOfWork #Productivity #JeevaAI

There's never been a better time to build a startup. Here are 24 AI tools that let you build, launch, and scale faster than ever before. To learn how to build your first product with AI, join the Vibe Coding Startup Bootcamp: fndri.com/47ZqdYA

Finding a co-founder shouldn't be a shot in the dark. Most founders pick partners based on gut feeling, friendship, or just availability. Then they're surprised when conflicts arise, roles overlap, or the partnership falls apart. Our research shows these 8 traits make a great co-founder: High trust. Self-reliance. Achievement. Dependability. Innovation. Emotional control. Moderate assertiveness and agreeableness. The Startup Co-founder Bootcamp shows you exactly how to find and evaluate potential co-founders with the help of our Entrepreneur DNA Assessment. Sign up here: fndri.com/47pzoBE