FOUNDERS EMBASSY ALUMNI TESTIMONIALS
CO-FOUNDER & CEO, INUKA
“The major thing I’m taking away from Founders Embassy is that we have to think much bigger. Also, we have to move here at some point which is something we hadn’t foreseen or thought about much.”
FOUNDER, TWO HANDS
“Founders Embassy frankly changed my life and changed our venture. It’s been extraordinary…. I loved my peers and I think we'll know each other for the rest of our lives.”
CO-FOUNDER & CEO, BELIIVE
“We now have networking and partnership opportunities as well as a lot of knowledge and connections to follow up with after the program. This is not just a one time thing that will solve your life but it’s about the consistency and building relationships.”
CO-FOUNDER & CEO, CAPITAL PILOT
“The real highlight for me has been the intensity of the experience of meeting such a large number of different people who are so relevant to our business.”
“For anyone considering the program, I would highly recommend it. If your goal is to establish a network in Silicon Valley, if your goal is to get exposure to investors to help with fundraising, or if your goal is to meet other founders and develop strong relationships with them, I would recommend this program. If you’re coming to Silicon Valley just to have fun, this isn’t for you.”
Michelle Caers - CEO, CROWDMARK
“This program is not meant for seed companies..you need to come here with a lot of things in mind: your numbers, your model, your traction…”
Ricardo Martínez - CEO & CO-FOUNDER, BUSSI
“The mentorship with Megan (Maloney, General Catalyst) was amazing. She connected me with a few people and gave me very specific feedback. She even went through and corrected our deck slide by slide - that was very cool.”
Aibek Van den ackerveken - CEO, CLICKCLICKDRIVE
"Cracking Silicon Valley can be a challenge for international startups looking to meet the right people, raise funds or even to tap into the vast pool of knowledge and expertise that you can find in San Francisco. For us, Founders Embassy did all of this and more! It was an amazing program and learning opportunity packed into a very short period of time. We are still amazed by some of the people that Andee and Anastasia brought to the table for us to network with and learn from."
Pieter Boekhoff - CEO, IMIRROR BY NOBAL
“A few people did stand out. I’ve always been a big fan of Andreessen Horowitz’s fund and in one of our mentor mixers I was able to meet a partner from that fund and I’ve been able to stay in touch with him.”
Nishit Dave - CEO, Speedbox
“Knowing how to communicate in the states… We thought in advance that we knew how to speak American quite well but we learned that we didn’t. I think that’s been a really good lesson throughout the time here of just how different messaging and storytelling is here.”
Eleanor Hasler - VP, Communications, Dozens
“I was able to gain new skills, mostly in marketing and sales. I’m an engineer, so I had to learn a lot, especially because the US approach to all these things is very data driven, very forward-looking which was very interesting to me.”
Toni Wagner - Founder & CEO, VAudience
“It was very intense, it was very diligent. I wasn’t expecting that we would be doing such hard work during the 2 weeks time but it was totally worth it. I loved it.”