Program Operation

We conduct our 26-week Startup Program for a scholarship-sponsored cohort of 30-50 aspiring-founders in two-yearly cohorts, training and seeding them in developing their venture opportunities:

Track-1, Founder Training:
for 10 weeks, the cohort will undergo intensive VC-E&ED and capital markets industry training, covering all the venture discovery, development and delivery processes and ecosystem - enabling them to identify, validate, and execution-plan their startups for incubation and operation.

Track-2, Incubation & Seed Funding:
Trained founders with a validated startup and biz plan undergo this 8-week incubation and mentoring track, wherein IFF invests initially up to $1M in each startup for an equity interest therein as a joint portfolio-company with its founder(s). These funds will be used for incubating and capacity-building the startups.

Track-3: Acceleration & Growth Funding:
Revenue-generating ventures emerging from incubation undergo this 8-week acceleration and mentoring track, wherein IFF and its sister-firms provide each venture $10M growth-funding with follow-on rounds, including acquisition capital, for their scaling and aggressive value-creating initiatives.

Cohort Tuition Fee & Scholarship Sponsorship

For Track-1 (Founder Training), corporate or government-sponsorship of $60k in tuition and mentoring-fee per student-founder applies.

IFF will help raise cohort-sponsorship participation, involving federal grants & FA programs; as well as the financial and development-mission community including SMB-VC-PE funds,  philanthropy, and CSR/social entrepreneurship funds.