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 Orientation
90 Countries, 5,000 Alumni, 20,000 Mentors
One Global Community
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 Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions

2. Accelerator Overview
3. Q&A Session
4. Working Group Meeting

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 Introductions

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 30 Second Founder Introductions:

1. Who are you?

2. What are you working on?
3. Why are you here?

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 FI Silicon Valley Leadership
Emna Ghariani | Global Director MENA Region
Founder & CEO of the startup Veamly
Founder of Poindevster and Foundup
Advisory board member of numerous startups
Helped launch over 40 startups
Nominated by AllRaise as a rising tech in Silicon Valley
10+ years of experience

Ali Mnif| Co-Director of Parnerships

Founder of MAZAM, G-dice and FOUNDUP
12+ years of experience
Member of the task force of the Startup Act committee

Achref Chafter| Program Manager

Manages Operations in FI Tunisia
Programs Director @FOUNDUP
With 5+ years managing international development projects mainly related to
employment and youth employability

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 Our goal is to leverage our vast
network of resources to help you
build a global company – for life.

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 Mentors, Venture Partners, EIR’s
Phil Libin
Co-Founder & Former CEO Evernote
Co-Founder & CEO All Turtles
Amel Saidene
Co-Founder & CEO of Betacube
Co-Founder Tunisian Startups
Digital Transformation Consultant

Rania Reda Jesus Cagide

Serial Entrepreneur and Senior Product Manager at PayPal
CEO Augmania

Anup Gosavi Rym Baouendi

Founder & CEO of Spext Founder of Medina Works
Co-Founder Cogite
Consultant and Impact entrepreneur

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 Partners

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 https://www.ekuitycapital.com/

One of the Largest diversified investment institution in Tunisia

Ekuity Capital formerly known as the Tunisian-Kuwaiti Consortium of

Development (CTKD), was established in 1976 as a joint venture between Kuwait

Investment Authority (’’KIA’’) the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Kuwait, the

Tunisian Government and the Tunisian private sector in order to promote the

Tunisian hospitality and tourism sector.

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 http://www.meziouknani.com/

Top law firm specializing in business law

● Mergers & acquisitions

● Private Equity & Capital Markets
● Banking & Financing
● Business Litigation

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 https://femalefounderinitiative.com

FI Global Initiative Launched in 2016

● 31% female founder graduation rate (up from 17% in 2016), 38% across FI’s 3
largest markets.
● Office Hours with Female Mentors and Experts.
● Exclusive workshops focused on building teams, branding, funding, etc.
● Global Slack community with 450+ female founders.
● Strategic partnerships and discounts designed to support women entrepreneurs.

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 Program Overview

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 The World’s Largest Pre-Seed Startup Accelerator
Creating 800 - 1,000 Companies Each Year

Portfolio Meetup & Social

Countries Mentors Alumni Funding
Companies Media Followers
90+ 5,000+ 20,000+ 750,000+ $1B+

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 Founder Institute Mission

To empower communities of talented and motivated

people to build enduring and impactful
technology-enabled companies worldwide.

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 “ There is no
shortage of
problems facing
humanity, but
there is a shortage
of ambitious
entrepreneurs
trying to solve
them.
ADEO RESSI
Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

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 The World is Broken…

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 Entrepreneurs Will Solve the Greatest
Problems Facing Humanity

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 The Startup World is Leading Global Change

Global GDP
Per Capita
(USD)

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 Now is the TIME

Can you
Change 1,000,000 lives?
Create 100+ jobs?
Run it 10+ years?

Become a Leader to drive positive change

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 The Founder Journey
FI helps Founders at every stage

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 Core Program Tracks
Structure helps you scale FAST
Part-Time / Solo
✓ Idea Launch Path
✓ May still be FT
employed
1. Validation
2. Team Building FI Alumni
3. Go-To-Market Global Network
Full-Time / Team
✓ FT Team Founder Lab
Pre ✓ Testing a prototype/ Post-Graduate
Seed MVP Programs
Lifetime
Growth Path Support
Growth 1. Generating
✓ Live product with Traction
customers/ revenue 2. Preparing for next
round of Funding

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 Lifetime Support at Every Stage
After graduating the core program, founders gain access to the global network and postgraduate support, including
free post-graduate programs and network introductions for the entire life of the company.

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 Alumni Success

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 Alumni success stories from
around the world
Atomos Space
Developing high-powered
electric propulsion spacecraft
Resistomap
Mapping anti-biotic resistant
genes 10x Cheaper than
contemporary solutions.
Ceres Robotics
Awarded a NASA contract to build
the Lunar Rover for the Moon
Mission
Dialog
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Endiatx
Digestible Medical Robots that
perform remote diagnostics to
detect illness in the GI tract
TruGenomix
Building genetic test that measures
biomarkers for PTSD (US Veteran)
Bleximo Quantum Computing
Building Practical Superconducting
Quantum Computers (Quantum
Accelerators)
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 Alumni success stories from
Tunisia
Vynd MooMe
MooMe helps farmers make accurate decisions for their livestock
Vynd is a community platform that allows restaurants to be
fertility, health and nutrition. MooMe develops affordable and
easily found, interact with their customers and enhance their
modular cow monitoring solutions that are a fit for traditional,
daily operations. The platform consists of a website and a
medium size or big industrialized farms.
mobile application.

WattNow Evey Technologies

Wattnow is an IoT Energy Management Solution that mesures real Evey Technologies CEO Noomen Lahimer won Seedstars First Place 18
time consumption using Smart meters connected to a May 2016 , and now his company was selected at F6S.
cloud-based Dashboard and Mobile App. Wattnow, has
achieved the 3rd prize in Bloom Masters and its company
received fundings from Flat6Labs.

ARCHIV’ART Prefabulous
ARCHIVART is a platform of expertise in contemporary African art, Prefabulous won the 1st prize in the startup track of the Bloom Masters 1st
valuing its artists and archiving their traces through the years. edition (100 000 TND Prize). Also, Prefabulous was semi-finalist at the MIT EF
ARCHIVART is a virtual gallery that reflects the digital trend of its
Pan-arab 10th anniversary edition, and pre-selected by Flat6Labs Tunisia.
time, it offers the online sale of unique works of art or limited series
to a young or experienced audience that boosts the art market.

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 “4 Months ago, I had an idea.
Now I have a company, 4
employees, 3 working Prototypes
and $200k in funding”
Torrey Smith, CEO of Endiatx

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 Support Alumni Success System

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 Resources Alumni Benefits
• FI Equity Collective
• Dedicated support contact at FI HQ
• Monthly Graduate Master Sessions
• Private events
• Private email list
• Access to 20k+ mentors
• $3M+ in partner discounts
• Unlimited access to Founder Institute sessions
• Curated tactical guides and videos

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 Resources Mentor Network

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 Resources Partners

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 Resources Guides

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 FI’s Advanced Post Graduate Programs and Support.
100% Free. Access for life.

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 How to Win

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 The Founder Institute is hard.

Honest, Direct, Feedback

Structured to maximize growth

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 High impact businesses can require

70+ Hours per week

FI asks you to work on your business for

25+ Hours per week

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 Only the best will graduate.

>60% of you won’t complete the program

(that’s a good thing … for you)

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 Top 2 reasons people drop out
1. Fall Behind
(not completing the weekly deliverables)

2. Poor Ratings
(experienced startup mentors think your idea/ strategy/
progress is poor)

FI helps you realize hard truths fast!

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 Get a full refund if you drop (or FI drops you)
before the Customer Development session

If you drop out after the Refund Deadline,

Put your course fee towards the next cohort

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 But we know that

you can do it

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 Our admissions is very accurate

Over 50,000 people have

taken the test (9 languages)

Results correlated with the

real world performance of
5,000+ Alumni

85% accuracy in predicting

entrepreneurial success

Learn more: FI.co/DNA

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 Build Relationships
Your mentors, fellow founders and Local Leaders
could eventually be your investors, customers,
advisors or partners (or can connect you to them).

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 Help Each Other
Something magical happens when good people
work together to accomplish a common goal.

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 Do the work
We can’t build your company for you, but we can
give you a global platform to succeed.
Trust in the process. It works…

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 Have Fun!
We love what we do and you should to. Passion will
make all the difference.

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 Program Structure

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 Typical Session Agenda

Mentor Talks
Mentors share best practices
and lessons learned on the
session topic
1 Founder Hotseats
Founders pitch their Company
Mentor Evaluation & feedback
2
Mentor Q&A
3 Open Q&A session
between Founders and
Mentors

Post-Session Social
Build relationships with Mentors 4
and Peers

See Sample Session:

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 Founder Hotseats
“No threes allowed”

5 - ��
Amazing! I am ready to invest now!

4 - ��
Good. I am interested in advising. Let’s meet!

2 -  Unclear. Might have potential but needs work.

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1- Bad. Recommend Pivot.

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 Weekly Deliverables
Do the work. Trust the process.

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 Epic Sprints
Challenging assignments to fix critical issues in the
business, or address your falling behind in the
program

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 Office Hours
Meet with your Local Leaders and Mentors

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 Working Groups
1. Meet 2x per week
2. Lean on each other for support.
3. Be respectful and keep things
confidential in the program
4. No Drama.

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 The Equity Collective

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 FI has legal partners in
90+ Countries to help you

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 Equity Collective
Shared upside in our collective success.
Returns Are Shared with all
members of the Cohort
Founders 1%
1%
Establishes a strong Contribute a 4% Mentors
network that is invested Founders
in your success. Warrant in Week 8. You receive financial
upside in all
For providing
feedback
and guidance
companies from

Creates the next

Allows FI to your cohort.
through-out the
program.

generation of Angel purchase shares in

Investors in the network. 1% 1%
the future. Leaders FI HQ
For running the For providing help for
local program and years to come.
building the FI
community.

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 How Does the Warrant Work?
Optimized for growth

1. 15-year option to purchase shares from the company at

fair market value (like a stock option).
2. Price per share and the number of shares we can buy is
set at your first funding round.
3. Warrant is Founder friendly & dilutes over time, usually
representing 2% of the company by the time we invest in
the company.
4. Founders face minimal dilution and personally gain value
from being in the Equity Collective.

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 Closing Advice

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 You are responsible for
your own success.

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 Move fast and
embrace challenges.

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 Everything in FI is a test
and indicates future
performance.

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 Earn the title FI Alumni.

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 Any questions?

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 Working Group Meeting

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 1. Introduce Yourself to the group
2. Discuss Working Group Meetings
3. Select a candidate for President
4. Email the Local Leaders Tonight
with the President Selection
5. End the session when you are
ready

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