The Founder Palace is a platform for next-generation builders who are turning ideas into businesses, products, and opportunities. We support founders, creators, students, professionals, emerging brands, and companies that want to build what comes next. Through Palace Score®, we help builders better understand their ideas, identify gaps, and take more focused steps toward launch and growth.
We believe entrepreneurship should not depend on where someone lives, which school they attend, or whether they belong to an elite network. Many capable builders still lack practical guidance, trusted feedback, mentorship, capital, distribution, and a strong support system. At the same time, companies and consumer brands are looking for more authentic ways to discover emerging talent, support new ideas, and connect with younger audiences.
The Founder Palace exists to decentralize access to entrepreneurship — giving founders anywhere the diagnosis, mentorship, and global-local network they need to build a launch-ready venture without relocating to a traditional innovation hub.
The Founder Palace brings these groups together through Palace Score®, our accelerator, commerce opportunities, partnerships, marketplace initiatives, and community-driven distribution. Our community began with student founders, and they remain an important part of our mission. Today, we serve a broader generation of builders, including first-time founders, solo founders, indie hackers, creators, and innovators outside traditional startup centers.
The Founder Palace is launched by Minfon Group, a global venture development company based in Silicon Valley, California, with more than 25 years of experience building and operating corporate innovation and startup programs in the US and abroad, for clients such as BP Castrol, Volvo Cars and Siemens. After our many years of accumulating experiences in the startup world, we eagerly want to share our knowledge with incoming participants so that they can build their startup ideas into a company to address world problems through innovations.