San Francisco based Founder Institute, which is the world’s premier pre-seed accelerator and startup launch programme, and Finland’s leading retailer S Group, have announced the launch of a new joint start-up programme: Food Founder Programme. Based in Helsinki, it will be helping aspiring entrepreneurs within the food and agricultural sectors launch their business ideas by providing them with feedback and mentorship from over 100 food founder experts from various universities and research institutes.
Participants of the programme will also have access to an exclusive network of international investors and advisors. The first edition of the 13-week programme will start in early 2019.
“Discovering and optimising better ways to care for and produce food is essential to the future of our world,” says Adeo Ressi, Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute. “Through this programme, we want to encourage startups with big visions to use the technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.”
Anyone interested in applying to the Food Founder Programme can find out more at https://fi.co/join/fifood. The final deadline for applications is December 16th 2018.
