The 10-day cohort is full. Demand was high, so we opened a new 7-day cohort, November 20 to 26, 2026.
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Business InnovatorsProgram 2026
Cohort 2026 is now open, with applicants welcome from Latin America, Spain, and Asia. Access elite global networks, learn from pioneers, and secure available scholarships. Apply today to transform your region's future and scale your venture.
Learn from founders who
built it themselves
Five practitioners teach the program. Each one built the company, fund, or system they teach from.
Stephen Punzak, MD
Distinguishing a validated problem from an unvalidated idea, and acquiring trust in a credential-driven industry.
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Alex DeAquino DaSilva, PhD
Reading a profit and loss statement, constructing a cash flow model, and pricing a product to preserve margin.
Andrew Glen Brown
How investors actually evaluate whether an idea is worth backing, and the difference between operating inside a system someone else built and designing the system itself.
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Anthony Almeida
Using Claude for market research, financial modeling, copywriting, and prototyping.
LinkedInSix steps to launch your venture
Over seven days, every team moves through the same six moves, from first interview to a business owner's hands.
Validate the problem
Interview real users and turn a hunch into a validated problem statement.
Finance the model
Build a cash-flow model and price your product to protect margin.
Pitch to investors
Test your pitch against real investor questions and rewrite it live.
Execute on schedule
Map your venture to a delivery timeline that holds under pressure.
Ship with AI
Use Claude for research, modeling, and prototyping — and ship a landing page.
Innovation Lab
Apply every move to a real local business — hand the owner finished work and close the cycle of the method.
Applications close October 15.
Start your applicationThe MissionEntrepreneurship training
for underserved founders.
Business Innovators Program is built on the belief that entrepreneurial talent exists everywhere in equal measure. But the access to the knowledge required is not. Our goal is to serve regions that face a specific, recurring set of disadvantages: limited technology access, weak financial literacy, underdeveloped problem diagnosis skills, little exposure to structured business execution, and no path to learning how to professionally consult businesses.
We provide founders with direct guidance from global visionaries. These are people who started as entrepreneurs themselves and now want to pass down their knowledge to future growing businesses. By giving entrepreneurs the chance to develop these skills early, we aim to help build a new generation of leaders who change their communities through the businesses they create.
Program Details
About
The mission and the gap we address for underserved founders.
The Program
A 7-day cohort of mentorship, finance, and AI training across two cities.
Innovation Lab
Student teams consulting real local businesses to solve operational gaps.
Eligibility
Who can apply and the evaluation rubric we use to select.
Second Year
Returning participants as Student Consultant Leads with a higher role.
Mentors
The 2026 cohort mentors and the workshops they lead.
Summit
Business Innovation Night and Demo Day details.
Cost & Aid
Program fee, financial aid, flight assistance, and deadlines.