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Leverage 15+ Years of Entrepreneur Research
Leading corporations, funds, and universities use the Entrepreneur DNA Assessment to identify innovative talent, improve evaluation at scale, and more.
Our Methodology
Decoding Entrepreneur DNA since 2009
Great companies start with great people, so the Founder Institute startup accelerator developed an online assessment containing a battery of personality and aptitude evaluations to identify individuals with the greatest chance of being a great entrepreneur.
Psychographic Testing
Rather than subjectively judging startup ideas, our admissions criteria for the FI accelerator contains a 30 minute online assessment designed to identify 'Entrepreneur DNA'.
Pre-Seed Accelerator
Accepted founders join an intense 4-month accelerator to launch a startup. Each week they get numerical ratings on their progress from peers, program leaders, and experienced mentors.
Track Market Performance
After graduation, the FI Portfolio Success team continues rating the founders on their company performance 'in the real world', with all data fed back into the weighting of the assessment.
Analyze and Calibrate
Through a flow of continous data, regression analysis from PhDs, and frequent test updates, FI has built and can maintain a statistically validated test for identifying the highest potential entrepreneurs.
The Standard in Entrepreneur Evaluation
There are many personality and aptitude evaluations on the market, but only the Founder Institute's 'Entrepreneur DNA Assessment' was built specifically to identify entrepreneurial talent.
Since 2009, our Assessment has collected over 185,000 applicants across 126 countries, and our scoring algorithm factors millions of data points and the latest peer-reviewed research.
Benefits for...
Boost your organization's innovation efforts.
Identify Entrepreneurial Talent
Quickly and objectively find the most innovative and entrepreneurial individuals from your workforce.
Cultivate your Innovators
Get deep insights on the strengths and weaknesses of your employees, with recommendations on how to get their best performance.
Improve your Innovation Programs
Ensure that the most innovative people are the ones actually taking part of your innovation programs.
Trusted by...
The Founder Institute has been partnering with funds, accelerators, universities, corporations, governments, and NGOs since 2009.
Leverage the latest social science research in your diligence.
Evaluate Founders at Scale
Have lots of potential investments? The Assessment has proven to accurately evaluate Founders at any scale.
Save Time on Due Diligence
Let the Assessment objectively evaluate founders so you can spend more time scouting deals and helping startups.
Improve Investment Outcomes
Reduce bias in your selection process, and quantify the greatest variable in the success or failure of your investments; the Founders!
Trusted by...
The Founder Institute has been partnering with funds, accelerators, universities, corporations, governments, and NGOs since 2009.
Identify and empower the top innovators from any population.
Identify Entrepreneurial Talent
Quickly and objectively find the most innovative and entrepreneurial individuals from your population.
Evaluate Founders at Scale
Have a large population to sort through? The Assessment has proven to accurately evaluate Founders at any scale.
Improve your Innovation Outcomes
Reduce bias in your selection process, and quantify the greatest variable in the success or failure of your innovation programs; the people!
Trusted by...
The Founder Institute has been partnering with funds, accelerators, universities, corporations, governments, and NGOs since 2009.
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The Founder Institute appears to have developed an assessment that any population, any city, university, or country could use to determine who among them has the best shot at succeeding as an entrepreneur.
Aaron Patzer"Founder of Mint.com" -
Entrepreneurial success? Yes, there's a test for that.
Kelly Hoey"Contributor, Inc. Magazine" -
Founder Institute's research confirms: it's all in the head!
Thomas R. Eisenmann"Professor, Harvard Business School" -
The Founder Institute's Predictive Admissions Test also pinpoints the behaviors and characteristics that virtually guarantee an entrepreneur will fail.
Jason Akeny"Senior Writer, Entrepreneur Magazine"
The Assessment Platform
We have worked closely alongside our customers to build a simple, intuitive platform that is flexible to your needs.
With our exclusive 'Manager's Reports', you get full insights on the strenghts and weaknesses of each user, with actionable tips on how to get their best performance.
Our all-in-one administration dashboard allows you to invite users, remind them, and import/export all data using simple .csv files - ensuring that this data is compatible with any external platform.
Add your brand to the user experience, and decide how much information to share with your users. The data collected from your users will never be used by FI, and can be deleted at any time.
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Since 2009, the Founder Institute has helped tens of thousands of employees and new/ idea-stage entrepreneurs validate, test, and launch startups worth an estimated $30BN+. Our mission is to activate and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build meaningful technology businesses worldwide.
