A mosaic artist with thirty years of craft behind them came in to retrain — and walked out building hydroponics for restaurants.
Online Bootcamp · 90 minutes
Ninety minutes to a place in the four-week live bootcamp.
A self-guided distillation of our four-week live bootcamp — built for refugee and immigrant founders. Pass a fifteen-minute test at the end and you can apply to the live cohort.
- Three modules, twenty-five minutes each.
- Audio narration with on-screen captions.
- Fifteen-question test, twelve out of fifteen to pass.
- Two-minute video application if you pass.
A real venture program, compressed.
- Founded
- 2023, from the Afghan Future Fund
- Trained
- 200+ entrepreneurs in 2024–25
- Partners
- Antler · Rutgers Business School
- Accelerator
- New York · Toronto · Berlin
- Window
- June – August (one-week, in-person)
- Investment
- Up to $100,000 — travel + accommodation covered
There is no template for what your business has to look like.
A few founders we’ve trained — anonymized, with permission — and the shape of what they walked out building.
A creator who'd grown a beauty content following over seven years launched a gender-inclusive skincare brand because nothing on the market spoke to them.
A founder reframed a literary platform as a translation marketplace once they heard what their first paying customers actually needed.
An immigration consultant productized two years of hand-held casework into a fixed-fee package that priced itself.
A fashion founder kept their atelier producing inside a conflict zone — quality intact, deliveries running, supply chain rebuilt every quarter.
Ninety minutes
A laptop and Wi-Fi is all you need.
You don’t need a co-founder. You don’t need savings. You don’t need permission. The course is English, with on-screen captions for every slide.