The first remote accelerator that builds with you, from idea to seed.
AI does the digging. Operators make the calls. A full-stack team working alongside you from idea to seed, with real access to capital and global partners.
100% remote · No fixed start date · Operator Led · AI Powered
Three programmes.
One continuous arc.
Not a three-month sprint that ends the day the programme ends. One relationship across the full arc, from testing the idea to raising the money to build it, and again to grow it.
Simple tuition fee
One clear tuition fee per stage, no dilution. If we help secure your raise through our investor network or via a grant, we may take a small success fee and credit the tuition fee.
Any industry. Any stack.
Full-stack operators across seven functions, matched to whatever you're building and however it's built.
Great fireside chat. Then you're on your own to build it.
Most accelerators are good at the parts that photograph well: an experienced mentor, a training curriculum, a fireside chat with someone who's done it before. All genuinely useful. None of it builds your business.
The mentorship is classroom style: office hours, sometimes once a week if you can get the slot. The other six days, you're building alone, translating someone else's war story into your own execution, and often missing the mark on the parts that actually matter.
Mentorship tells you what worked for them. An operator builds what works for you.
Three stages. One arc from idea to seed.
Stages end on evidence, not a calendar. No cohorts — start when you're ready, work 100% remotely, and pause or extend around real life at no cost.
Validation
Is it worth building?
Problem-solution fit, business model, unit economics.
Target ~8–10 weeks
Start here if
You have an idea, nothing built or tested yet, and you want to prove it's worthy of pursuit.
Ends in: A real go / no-go decision, backed by tested problem-solution fit, business model, and unit economics. No equity taken, ever.
Pre-Seed
Build the real prototype
Product-solution fit, early PMF and traction.
Target ~13–16 weeks
Start here if
You've validated the problem and want to build the real prototype, put it in front of users and make it fundable.
Ends in: Demo Day, with product-solution fit and early signs of product-market fit and traction.
Seed
Prove it, raise to grow
PMF proven, business and traction scaling.
Target ~25 weeks
Start here if
You have a working product with real users and want to prove traction and raise to grow.
Ends in: A second Demo Day, with product-market fit proven and traction scaling, ready to raise.
Enter at whichever stage you're actually at, or track the whole arc from idea through to growth.
On fees: one tuition fee per stage. If we help secure your raise through our investor network or via a grant, we may take a small success fee (~3% ex VAT) and credit the tuition fee.
Built around your schedule and your team shape.
Pace, timing and team shape are yours to set — the programme bends around you, not the other way round.
On your own timeline
Start when you're ready. No cohort to wait for, no cohort to keep pace with. Pause or extend around real life at zero cost.
Alongside a job or a business
Modules are gated on evidence, not attendance. Do the work in the hours you actually have — evenings, weekends, between clients.
Solo, co-founders or a full team
If you already have people owning functions, we pair operators to them — full cross-functional collaboration, not a hand-off.
Not a Slack channel and a shared drive. A real operating system for the build.
Every stage runs on one platform, structured like a proper curriculum, not a folder of slides. Step by step, module by module, with a clear standard for what "done" actually means and a team of operators behind it.
Step by step, not a syllabus
Every module breaks down into a real build sequence, not a reading list you're left to interpret.
A clear Definition of Done
No module closes on a feeling. Each one carries a checklist your operator actually signs off, criterion by criterion.
Tools and templates, built in
The frameworks and worksheets live inside the module itself, not scattered across a drive you have to go hunting through.
An AI Associate to spar with
Gathers the evidence and stress-tests your thinking before anything reaches your operator, so the conversation starts further along.
Operator feedback on the real work
Every deliverable is reviewed against the Definition of Done by the operator who owns it, not a generic “looks good.”
Stuck? An operator builds it with you, or for you
Hit a wall and your operator steps in. You can have them work it alongside you, or build it outright: prototypes, strategy, investor decks. They're at your disposal.
Seven functions. Real operators behind each one.
Seven operator functions, led by people deeply experienced in startups and scaleups, backing your startup at every stage and every deliverable — built to turn effort into an actual chance of success.
Business & Strategy
Positioning, business model and the calls that set direction.
Product & Tech
Architecture, build sequence and shipping something real.
HR, People, Culture
Founder alignment, first hires and how the team actually works.
Operations & Transformation
Process, systems and the unglamorous work that compounds.
GTM & Communications
Channels, narrative and getting in front of the right buyers.
Investor / VC Readiness
Metrics, materials and the diligence questions before they land.
Legal
Structure, cap table and contracts that hold up later.
One team, not a mentor list
Seven functions, dedicated 1:1 operators assigned to your startup across all of them — through to Demo Days, pitch roasts, and showcases with the full team.
100% remote. Any founding team, anywhere on the globe.
You never relocate. We pair you with operators who speak the language, know the market and understand the culture — our management team connects the dots across the group.
Build from anywhere. Your operating team is already there.
Operators are matched to your market and your language, not your postcode. A management layer keeps the work, introductions and investors moving across time zones.
Speaks your language
Operators are matched to your team in the language you actually work in, not translated through a coach.
Knows your market
People who have sold, hired, raised and shipped in your region — and know where it breaks.
Understands the culture
How business is really done locally: buying behaviour, hiring norms, regulation, relationships.
On top of your operators, a management team that connects the dots.
We're a group of professionals who make global connections: introductions across markets, doors into new territories, and networks linked together — so a team in Nairobi can reach a buyer in Lisbon and an investor in Toronto.
Past the programme itself.
A community, not a cohort that scatters
Founders across sectors and markets, connected on Skool long after your last Demo Day.
Our community platformGlobal partner network
Credits and discounts from the tools you actually build on, think Lovable, AWS, ElevenLabs and more, so your runway goes further.
Global investor network
Angels and VCs worldwide who back novel, bold ideas and breakthrough founders, in the room at both Demo Days, plus warm introductions.
Management team
A dedicated team connecting founders, operators and investors, keeping momentum on the calendar.
Pitch roasts
Blunt, structured teardowns of your deck and narrative before the people writing cheques see it.
Demo Days
Two live stages to showcase what you have built to investors and strategic partners, and go after funding.
Three things you won't find in a typical accelerator.
Operators who build, not mentors who visit
Assigned to your startup and working the problem with you, week after week, not a once-a-week office-hours slot with someone reciting their own war stories.
Gated on evidence, not the calendar
Every module ends against a defined standard. You move forward because the work holds up, not because a week passed.
Your cap table stays yours
Every stage is a simple tuition fee. We don't take equity to work with you.
Twenty years inside the businesses actually doing the scaling.
Greg Tennant
Founder & CEOFrom founder, to product, to strategy and business transformation. In the room when decisions get made, on the floor when plans meet reality.
Greg has led transformations, reinventions, scale and strategy globally from startup, scaleup to multi-national corporations.
Two ways to be part of Founder LaunchBase
No fixed cohort, no commitment to join. Just first access when the doors open.
Join as a founder
Get matched with our operator team and priority access when Validation opens enrolment.
Apply as an operator
Individuals or firms/agencies work here. Embedded across one of seven functions, paid on outcomes, never hours.
What we look for: 15+ years of work experience, with 10+ years in your functional field · A startup and scaleup background · Generalists and specialists across key sectors and business models · Founder experience is a bonus