Applications are open for Founder Gym’s FG Fundraising Cohort 18
Founder Gym, the #1 program teaching underrepresented founders how to raise capital to scale their tech startups, is now accepting applications for FG Fundraising Cohort 18. Apply here if you are an underrepresented founder who is:
- Building a tech or tech-enabled startup
- Preparing to raise a pre-seed or seed round
- Ready to level up your founder and fundraising skills
- Seeking a powerful network of world-class founders
In this announcement, we cover the following topics:
- FG Fundraising Cohort 18 Program Components
- Founder Gym and FG Graduate Results
- FG Fundraising Cohort 18 Program Dates
- FG’s NextFree Live Training “Build the Perfect Pitch Deck” (register here)
Over the span of 7 weeks, we provide founders with the information, structure, and accountability needed to level up their fundraising skills and close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
Founders complete structured exercises and receive expert training from seasoned investors and funded founders. The cohort experience includes the following components:
- Live FG Expert Trainings: For six consecutive weeks, you will receive live training from Founder Gym’s expert trainers. Past FG Expert Trainers have represented top firms including 500 Startups, Andreessen Horowitz, Techstars, Backstage Capital, First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MaC Venture Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and more. All live trainings are facilitated by Paige Hendrix Buckner, Chief Operating Officer of Founder Gym. Paige has supported over 500 founders in their completion of Founder Gym’s rigorous training program and is on hand to ensure all founders are set up to both graduate from the FG Fundraising Cohort and succeed beyond its completion.
- FG Fundraising Toolkit: During the FG Fundraising Cohort, every founder must complete their fundraising toolkit in order to graduate. The toolkit includes the most essential materials needed to successfully raise startup capital. Once a founder becomes an FG Graduate, their fundraising toolkit is shared with Founder Gym’s exclusive network of accelerator directors, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup lawyers, funded-founders, and ecosystem partners in Silicon Valley and beyond.
- Exclusive Video Library: Over 100 accelerator directors, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup lawyers, and funded founders in Silicon Valley and beyond have joined Founder Gym to train the next generation of successful tech startup founders. Founders selected for the FG Fundraising Cohort will receive exclusive access to Founder Gym’s extensive video library that features world-class trainings from select FG Expert Trainers, including Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Phin Barnes (First Round Capital), Megan Holston-Alexander (Andreessen Horowitz), and more.
- A Global Community of Top Founders: Being a founder is definitely hard. Being a founder can also be extremely lonely. The Founder Gym community consists of more than 613 founders living in 26 countries that span 6 continents! Once you join our ranks, you will never again have to navigate the entrepreneurial journey alone. Seeking feedback on a go-to-market strategy? Someone in our community can give you advice. Preparing for an upcoming investor meeting? Founders in our community love to help each other practice. Looking for great talent to join your team? Our graduates have amazing networks you can leverage. Our motto at Founder Gym is “We All Go Up Together,” because we know it’s going to take all of us working together in order to succeed.
Apply for FG Fundraising Cohort 18 here.
Our numbers speak for themselves. Founder Gym Fundraising Cohort Graduates get results:
- In less than 4 years, Founder Gym has trained 613 graduates in 26 countries on 6 continents who have gone on to raise $127,000,000 (and counting) in capital to scale their tech startups.
- 1 in 10 Black women who have ever raised $1M or more were trained by Founder Gym. (For context, less than 0.27% of venture capital goes to Black women, and as of December 2020, only 93 Black women in history have ever raised $1M or more. Source: ProjectDiane). In the first half of 2021, 5 additional Black women FG Graduates have raised over $1M.
- 11 FG Graduates were invested in by Backstage Capital.
- 18 FG Graduates were invested in by Techstars.
- 1 in 5 of the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund recipients are FG Graduates.
- 100% FG Graduates to be featured on Shark Tank were invested in by the Sharks, including Mark Cuban, Daymond John, and Lori Greiner. Also, the most recent FG Graduate on Shark Tank raised $1M on the show.
- 1st Black man to raise the original $1.07M maximum on an equity crowdfunding platform was trained by Founder Gym.
- 2 FG Graduates were named winners of Grammy-award-winning artist and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Prize.
Get results! Apply for FG Fundraising Cohort 18 here.
Apply to join FG Fundraising Cohort 18 by Friday, December 17, 2021. Program dates are as follows:
- Program Start Date: Monday, January 24, 2022
- Program End Date: Friday, March 11, 2022
- Live Programming Days: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
- Live Programming Times: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST
If you already had everything you needed to succeed, you would not be here. The truth is, everyone needs help to get where they want to go, and Founder Gym is here to provide you with an inclusive community, rigorous accountability, and a clear roadmap that will get you the results you have been searching for. Founder Gym has custom-designed a virtual experience unlike anything out there, and our model continues to prove effective in accelerating founder success. Apply for FG Fundraising Cohort 18 here.
To learn more about FG Fundraising Cohort 18 and get more gems on how to secure the bag, join us for our next live training “Build the Perfect Pitch Deck” on Tuesday, November 30th at 2:30 pm PST / 5:30 pm EST.
Startup investors don’t read business plans; they review pitch decks. A pitch deck is a series of slides that tell an investor why they should invest in your company. Whether you’re showcasing your deck at a demo day, sending your deck via email, or presenting it at an investor meeting, this live training will ensure your pitch deck makes the perfect first impression.
As always, you’ll have fun and walk away with actionable advice. Don’t take our word for it! Check out what people are saying about joining a live FG Training Session👇🏾
Click here to register for the free training by the deadline on Monday, November 29th.
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