The Founder Palace is an accelerator for student founders, allowing them to build startups on campus without dropping out of school or moving to major tech hubs.

Currently, aspiring student founders either have to drop out of college or take entrepreneurship courses taught by professors with no zero-to-one startup experience or emphasis on grades over business outcomes. In addition, students who live in smaller cities or rural areas, or those who are not attending elite schools lack access to startup resources, capital and a support system.

The Founder Palace is a startup accelerator designed specifically for student entrepreneurs. Built for innovative, underserved founders, our two-month program helps participants, independent of faculty involvement, take their ideas from MVP to product launch, identify their ideal customer persona, and build a sales funnel, culminating in a demo day with investors and customers from around the world.

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.