A fantastic collection of thinkers and doers
We will support your innovation endeavor by providing the structure and guidance young entrepreneurs need to validate a new idea and get to an MPV fast.
With the Berlin Chapter, intrapreneurs and Founders you sponsor will be supported by a structured growth process that has proven to help move quickly and efficiently, and reduce the time and cost to building a startup.
Our program is notoriously hard because growing and sustaining a business is much harder. This is especially true for ideas in the innovation and impact space.
We ask our Founders to commit 25 hours to the program on a weekly basis, minimum.
They will be challenged and supported every step of the way, to ensure their solution stands on solid ground and they are equipped for what comes next.
Can your team turn their idea into a scalable business? Thatâs what we will help them figure out.
We provide invaluable knowledge from top Mentors and deliver decades of startup and entrepreneurship experience in an intensive 14-week offline format. And now since Covid19 hit, in an online format too.
FI spans worldwide across chapters in 200+ cities and 6 continents, with a global community of 25,000+ Mentors, Grads and CEOs of many successful companies.
In Berlin specifically, Founders will have the direct support of 50+ high-profile Mentors during the semester, and access to an extended network of 400+ local Mentors. Among them: Lubomila Jordanova, Stefan JĂžrgensen, Fabian Geyrhalter, Laura Kohler, Javier Rincon, Kyrill Zlobenko, Natacha Neumann, Antony Tikhonov, Regine Harr, Patrick Knodel, Dr. Fabian Heilemann, Felix Krause, Fabian Kofler… and many more.
We are the first FI chapter in the world with a dedicated Climate Impact track alongside the regular curriculum, running since 2019. We are supported in our ambition to make sustainability and industry standard by star Mentors from Earlybird, Vireo Ventures, Future Energy Ventures and Innovation for Impact to name a few.
We support entrepreneurs that focus their creativity and will on building âImpact Companiesâ. To help them be successful, we sign-on to support actionable metrics that guide entrepreneurs of all kinds on their quests to create Impact Companies that address UN SDGs, and have created a definition for âImpact Companiesâ that includes:
Now, facing perhaps the biggest test to humankind and the future of the planet, it will be up to entrepreneurs to work together with governments and large companies to create Impact Companies to solve humanityâs most pressing issues.
Contrary to other early-stage accelerators, we welcome anyone with just an idea for a Startup — and a bright entrepreneurial mind. This uniquely positions us first row to spot the best and most disruptive solutions early on, for any given industry.
We actively contribute to Berlinâs diverse and fastest-growing early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems: close to 500 startups are created every year in this city; since 2019 the Berlin Chapter alone created more than 50 startups.
Since 2010, we have trained 500+ people and helped create 100+ companies with a survival rate of 60% by year 3.
By leveraging this unique access to early-stage Founders, you will get the rare opportunity to spot innovation and world-changing solutions first.
We bring the experience, the structure and the resources. Enroll your teams or sponsor external Founders for a fraction of the cost of creating your own innolab — and zero risk.
Clean Ocean Coatings (eCoating) graduated from our program in December 2020. The founding team is on a mission to help clean the ocean with a biocide-free, mechanically resistant antifouling coating system made of polymers and polymer composites that has a minimum impact on the ocean ecosystem.
We will offer you insights, practical tips and think pieces for navigating disruption, impact and the need for forward-thinking entrepreneurship in this age of necessary change & innovation.
We are working in hybrid mode, with most of our sessions happening online combined with a few core sessions we execute offline and a series of pulic meet & greet events! You can find all our event programming on https://fi.co/events!
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