Founder Institute Toronto Cohort 20 Produces New Tech Companies

We are pleased to announce the newest Alumni of FI Toronto cohort 20.

Nearly 400 entrepreneurs applied to the Toronto Virutal Summer 2021 program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just 14 companies were able to make it through. 

The new FI Toronto Alumni invite members of the innovation ecosystem to join them live for the Cohort 20 Showcase & Graduation online event, on Wednesday, November 17th 2021.

Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Toronto’s top startup experts and investors.

And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Toronto Summer 2021 program:

• AI Materia

• Beakns

• Bezziee

• Blawesome

• Cufed

• Dataraction

• Eqil

• Green Apple Gives

• IndigenUs

• LiboBerry 

• QuickCue

• Sourcezon

• VisionAI

• WishWell

The 20th Toronto FI accelerator program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes an entire city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Leaders of the Toronto Founder Institute: Sunil Sharma, Ben Stacey, Bryan Duarte, Isabel Starck, and Ryan Micheletti. Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Toronto that is conducive to building to great companies.

In addition, the Toronto Virutal Summer 2021 program was supported by some of Toronto’s top technology organizations, including:

Some of Toronto’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:

In the Founder Institute’s pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.5 billion.

After Graduation, the new Toronto Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute’s global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.

Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 90+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.

The next Toronto – Silicon Valley Virtual Spring 2021 Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are a pre-seed stage entrepreneur interested in applying, visit FI.co/apply/toronto.