Founder
Who is building?
A Founder Brief helps people understand the person behind the company.
[ ACCELERATOR PARTNERSHIP ]
Demo Day is a moment.
See what happens next.
Give qualifying founders a persistent discovery presence beyond the program and preserve a clearer view of meaningful company progress after the cohort ends.
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[ AFTER THE COHORT ]
Your founders keep building. The cohort directory stops changing.
Products launch. Teams grow. Partnerships form. Companies raise funding, win customers, and change direction.
That progress becomes scattered across announcements, alumni emails, posts, and individual relationships.
FDN keeps the founder, company, cohort, and meaningful progress connected after the program ends.
[ THE FDN MODEL ]
Founder → Company → Provenance → Progress
Company
What are they building?
A Company Brief connects the founder to the company and its current public context.
Provenance
Where did they come from?
Verified accelerator and cohort participation remains connected to the founder and company.
Progress
What happened next?
Signals connect meaningful, independently verified developments to the founder and company record over time.
This is not a static accelerator directory. It is a connected discovery record that can become more informative as participating companies evolve.
[ FOUNDER VALUE ]
Give your founders discovery beyond Demo Day.
When investors and others looking for emerging companies discover a participating founder, they can find clearer, more current context about the founder and company.
- Persistent Founder Brief
- Persistent Company Brief
- Assisted onboarding from existing materials
- Verified accelerator and cohort provenance
- Founder Workspace access
- Routine factual maintenance
- Two 30-minute Discovery Reviews each year
- Material development submissions for independent Signal review
[ ACCELERATOR VALUE ]
See what your founders build next.
FDN preserves the relationship between your accelerator, the cohort, participating founders, and their companies.
As FDN independently verifies and publishes meaningful developments, Signals add new context to that connected record.
See visible cohort progress without relying only on stale directories and scattered updates.
[ THE FDN MODEL IN PRACTICE ]
One company. Two founders. Verified program context.
Company
ImmutaverseFDN connects the founders to Immutaverse and their verified Berkeley SkyDeck cohort context. As meaningful developments are verified and published, they can add new context to the same record.
[ START WITH A COHORT ]
Bring qualifying founders into FDN.
Begin with a defined cohort so each participating founder and company can be established, maintained, and reviewed responsibly.
FDN independently confirms founder eligibility. Approved founders claim or establish their presence through assisted onboarding. Supported accelerator and cohort relationships remain connected to each founder and company.
An accelerator may sponsor Founder Memberships as one participation mechanism. The partnership itself begins with the cohort and the founders whose progress should remain discoverable.
[ PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION ]
Professional production, when useful.
Professional founder interviews and cohort media can be coordinated separately through In Your Words.
Production is scoped separately and does not guarantee FDN publication or placement.
[ EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE ]
Partnership enables participation, not coverage.
Accelerator sponsorship supports founder participation in FDN. It does not buy eligibility, endorsement, Signal publication, prominence, introductions, or favorable coverage.
FDN independently decides what is verified, what becomes a Signal, and what is published or featured.
[ START A PARTNERSHIP ]
Start with a cohort. Bring qualifying founders into FDN.
Tell us about your accelerator, cohort, and the founders whose progress should remain discoverable.
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