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Students in our Sparks program dont just learn about entrepenuership.

They build real companies.

12
Months
$0
Tuition
1:1
Mentor match
∞
Alumni network

12 months. 3 stages.
1 real company.

THE STUDENT JOURNEY IN OUR SPARKS PROGRAM

Spark

4 MONTHS

Prove what’s worth building.

You start with an opportunity. Over four months, you test assumptions with real customers, build a working prototype, and develop a business thesis grounded in evidence — not guesswork.

Deliverables
‍
✓ 30+ customer discovery interviews
✓ Problem-solution fit memo
✓ Working v0 prototype shipped
✓ Investor-ready narrative deck

Accelerate

6 MONTHS

Build the company forward.

Six months of relentless build. Work alongside experienced operators, get hands-on support, and turn what you validated into a company ready for customers and capital.

Deliverables
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✓ Dedicated 1:1 mentor matched to you
✓ Direct intros to seed capital and grants
✓ Shared legal, accounting, design, marketing & recruiting ops
✓ Go-to-market playbook

Scale

ONGOING

Public launch, & beyond.

The program ends. The support doesn’t. Foundry continues helping portfolio companies recruit, raise capital, win customers, and navigate what comes next.

Deliverables
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✓ Leadership recruiting & hiring support
✓ Follow-on funding intros for the next round
✓ Customer and partnership introductions
✓ Lifetime alumni network access
Sparks gives students something most classrooms can’t: the chance to discover what they’re capable of when the company, the decisions, and the stakes are real. They don’t watch from the sidelines. They build it themselves.
Proof in practice

From students to shareholders.

What starts as a cohort becomes something bigger: a company, a team, and proof of what students can build when given the opportunity.

FOUNDING COHORT · 9 STUDENTS

SoundGen Financial

Nine students joined Foundry’s first Sparks cohort. Together, they built — financitools designed around the realities college students actually face

‍SoundGen became Foundry’s first proof that when students are given the room, support, and responsibility to build something real, they rise to it.

Students from SPSC Cohort 1
second COHORT · 16 STUDENTS

Trickle Inc.

Sixteen students came together through Sparks to build Trickle Inc., a survey software company designed to help organizations gather better insights through adaptive conversations.

They took an idea and made it tangible, working through the messy decisions, pivots, and problem-solving that come with building something from the ground up.

Students from SPSC Cohort 2
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