Early Stage Founder Development Program Batch #1

We bring together top-notch investors, experienced founders, and inspiring leaders with early-stage, pre-revenue startups to prepare them to jump up to the next step of their journey.
 

We understand your problems as a founder...​

Messy and dirty sources of informations

Combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience

Hard to access funding for growth

Hard to access high impact execution guidance from experienced leaders

..and that is why we launched our

Founder Development Program

FounderPath Development Program will guide you to market validation and having traction and being ready as an investable company.

Our Experts

High-impact mentors, advisors and leaders are ready to add value to your journey with their experience, know-how and network.

Ahmet Argun

Lima Ventures

Arın Özkula

500 Emerging Europe

Enis Hulli

500 Emerging Europe

Gökhan Akar

Angel Effect

İmran Gürakan

LEAP Investment

and more

What to expect

Our Industry Focuses

Our program is industry agnostic but we do prioritize certain industries.

SaaS

Healthtech

AI / ML

FinTech

Sustainability

Mobility

Program Calendar

Applications are Open Until

21.10.2022

Program

22.10.2022 – 03.12.2022

Founder Summit & Demo Day

09.12.2022

Founder Development Program Curriculum

Saturday
On-site
Week 1

Entrepreneurship Mindset & Journey

Idea to business: How to capture billion dolar opportunities?

Tuesday
Online

• How to build MVP & landing page

• Q&A with inspiring founders

Saturday
On-site
Week 2

• Market research & UX

Tuesday
Online

• Validation & Iteration: How to talk with users

• Q&A with inspiring founders

Saturday
On-site
Week 3

Key metrics & progress

Tuesday
Online

 Winning business plan

 Q&A with inspiring founders

Saturday
On-site
Week 4

• Product Launch

Sales Strategy & Funnel Management

Tuesday
Online

How to measure: Analytics

Q&A with investors

Saturday
On-site
Week 5

• Financial preparation for fundraising

• Legal preparation for fundraising

Tuesday
Online

•  Fundraising Journey

•  Q&A with investors

Saturday
On-site
Week 6

How to onboard investors: Pitch Deck

• Q&A with investors

Founders' Summit

Friday – On-site

Turkey’s largest founder-oriented event, bringing together over 600 investors, corporate leaders, and members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem with 10 startups taking the stage to meet with investors.

Our Investor Partners

We connect high-impact founders with top-notch VCs in the region. So far, we’ve connected 4.000+ founders with over 100 investors and helped them to raise over $20M. Our investor network contains different levels of investors starting from early stage to the growth funds.

Who we are

We are a community of founders, builders, investors, advisors, and mentors to facilitate a frictionless journey for entrepreneurs while they are working hard to reach their dreams.

Together, we have built lots of companies, explored high-impact opportunities all around the world, support various entrepreneurs and establish development programs to support founders with execution guidance, funding, benefits, and our business network.

Apply to Batch #1 to move your startup to the next level!