America's next great companies are being built on campus. We're building a national league that keeps them home.
The Founders League Institute is a nonprofit institution creating America's first-ever permanent league for collegiate entrepreneurship — built to find the most ambitious student founders where they study, put them on a bigger stage, and give them a reason to build where they are.
Our Vision
A country where the next generation of great American companies is built everywhere — not funneled to a handful of zip codes. Where the states that educate ambitious builders also get to keep them.
Our Mission
We are building America's Founders League: a league system for collegiate entrepreneurship, designed to run state by state, year after year. An institution — permanent, standardized, and prestigious — that gives student founders a stage, a community, and capital that doesn't take control of their companies.
Our Principles
Founders first.
Every decision is measured against whether it serves student founders and helps them stay and build in their home state.
Capital without control.
The founders we back keep ownership of what they build.
Built to last.
This is infrastructure, not an event. Every chapter of the league is built to outlast its founders.
Chapter one begins in Ohio.
The Institute
The Founders League Institute was founded by Yon Raz-Fridman, a repeat founder with nearly two decades building venture-backed technology companies. It is governed by an independent board and guided by an advisory council of founders, investors, and executives.
The league is being built now.