We Train the Next Generation of Successful Founders and build an Impactful B2B Startup Ecosystem in the Heart of the German Mittelstand
YOU WANT TO BE A FOUNDER?
We help you to realize your entrepreneurial talent and develop visionary business ideas.
You Want To Really Take Off With Your Startup?
In our programs, we help you get your business case to the next level.
You Want To Acquire New Skills?
You are a manager and you are looking for future-oriented training? You have come to the right place!
You Want To Discover Our Network?
We bring established companies together with innovators and founders. Learn more about our unique network.
Our Mission
Empowering Entrepreneurs
Wir from the Founders Foundation train the next generation of successful founders, right in the heart of the German “Mittelstand” – the family businesses, the salt-of-the-earth type companies that form the foundation of the economy. We are pioneering the training of founders using our own Founders Foundation Education Model.
By creating a lasting B2b startup ecosystem, we connect New and Old Business. We actively help shape the digital future out of Ostwestfalen-Lippe, a region characterized by both modern urban spaces and large rural areas. In this context, we launched the tech conference “Hinterland of Things” in 2018.
As a non-profit organization, the core of all our efforts is a success- and impactful cultivation of tomorrow’s founders. We do not take any shares in the companies.
Jubiläum – #5yrsFF
It has been five years since our founders Sebastian Borek & Dominik Gross have launched the Founders Foundation together with the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Since that day, we were able to make many great things happen.
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