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MakeFounders

For accelerators, incubators and university programmes

The operating system for startup accelerators

See where every startup in your cohort really is, backed by evidence instead of status updates. Founders get a clear roadmap and an AI co-pilot. You get your Mondays back.

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The MakeFounders cohort dashboard: twelve startups with their stage, health score and latest check-in, and counts of startups at risk, stalled and ready for the next stage.

The cohort dashboard, shown with fictional demo data.

Running a cohort shouldn’t mean chasing it

Today

Progress lives in spreadsheets and inboxes

You find out a team has stalled three weeks after it happened, in a one-to-one.

With MakeFounders

One page shows every startup’s stage, health and last check-in. Stalled teams and missed check-ins are flagged for you.

Today

“We’ve validated the problem” is taken on trust

Milestones are ticked off in a call. Nobody can show a funder what was actually done.

With MakeFounders

Founders submit evidence for each milestone: interviews, experiments, numbers. It counts when you verify it.

Today

Every report is rebuilt by hand

Funder and board reports take days of collecting numbers from founders who have moved on.

With MakeFounders

Reports come from the same data the cohort works in every week, as a PDF or a spreadsheet, in one click.

How it works

Founders do the work in MakeFounders, so the picture you see is the work itself, not a report about it.

  1. Founders do the work

    A staged roadmap from idea to scale, with guidance, tasks and built-in tools for interviews, experiments, metrics and fundraising.

  2. Evidence, not claims

    Each milestone asks for evidence. Your team verifies it or asks for changes, and a weekly check-in takes founders five minutes.

  3. A live cohort view

    A health score for every startup with the reasons behind it, alerts when something slips, and a digest every Monday.

  4. Reports that write themselves

    Cohort progress, engagement and alumni outcomes for funders and boards, from the data you already have.

A startup’s page in MakeFounders: a short summary, what is going well, what to watch, its health score and open alerts.
One startup, everything about it: summary, health, evidence, check-ins and numbers.
A founder’s home page in MakeFounders: this week’s priorities, the current stage and what is coming up.
What a founder sees: the few things that matter this week.

Built for everyone in the programme

Programme teams

  • Cohort dashboard, alerts and a weekly digest
  • Evidence verification and a check-in inbox
  • Applications, mentors, sessions, curriculum and demo day
  • Your own framework: edit the stages and milestones

Founders

  • A clear roadmap and what to do next
  • Tools for interviews, experiments, metrics and investor pipeline
  • An AI co-pilot that knows their startup
  • Free for founders, always

Mentors

  • A briefing on each startup before every session
  • Session notes and agreed actions that founders see
  • Only the startups they are assigned to

Directors and funders

  • Read-only oversight across programmes
  • Progress, engagement and outcome reports
  • Alumni tracking after the programme ends

AI that helps, with guardrails

AI drafts, summarises and suggests. People decide. That rule is built into the product, not left to policy.

How AI and your data work together

  • Nothing is saved without a person confirming

    A draft check-in, a suggested milestone note: each is a proposal the founder accepts, edits or discards.

  • Answers point to their sources

    Summaries and co-pilot answers link to the check-ins, evidence and numbers they are based on.

  • It sees only what the person asking may see

    Private notes and team-only evidence stay out of anyone else’s answers.

  • Your data is not used to train models

    And an organisation can switch all AI features off with one setting.

Security and data protection

UK GDPR and Singapore PDPA
You are the controller, we are the processor. Export, erasure and retention tools are built in.
Data residency
Stored in the UK and the EU. A Singapore deployment can be arranged.
Your data, separated
Every request is checked against your organisation, and every route is tested against cross-tenant access.
Single sign-on and two-step verification
Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and other OpenID Connect providers.

Read the security overview

From our pilot programmes

We are starting our first pilot programmes now. We will share what they say here, in their own words, once their cohorts have run.

Programme manager

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Founder

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Programme director

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Want to be one of them? The pilot is free for 90 days.

See it with a cohort like yours

A 30-minute walkthrough of a manager’s Monday and a founder’s week, on realistic data.

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