Co-Founders Programme

What is Co-Founders?

A Co-Founder is a person who, in conjunction, with one or two others, is instrumental in starting a business.

Co-Founders is a one night a week programme for anyone who wants to be a co-founder in a start-up team and has the desire to explore the viability of a business idea.

Our programme brings together a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds, allowing you to meet potential collaborators you wouldn’t even know existed. Through our learning workshops, mentors, events and networking, we’ll help you build a team to ‘try out’ creating a start-up in a safe, risk-free environment. Pre-formed teams are also welcome to join.

The programme that connects ambitious people to build incredible new start-ups.

Apply for Co-Founders

Who should apply for Co-Founders?

Co-Founders is open to anyone.

We are looking for people who are interested in creating a start-up. Both the people who haven’t found a good idea yet but have skills they could bring to a start-up team, as well as people who already have a great idea or a have identified a problem space, but need a team of skilled people to make it happen. We are also open to teams that have already formed.

Our programme brings together a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds, allowing you to meet potential collaborators you wouldn’t even know existed, and through our learning workshops, mentors, events and networking – help you to try out creating a start-up in a safe, risk-free environment.

Every year we see a full array of outcomes. Ideas succeeding and failing. New ideas developing.

At the programme’s core, Co-Founders is about connecting our community, regardless of background, to develop new ideas and solutions, and accelerate their own personal development.

Apply

Before you apply, make sure that:

• You have an idea for a high-growth* start-up

OR

• You have a skillset that a start-up needs

OR

• You have identified a problem space you would like to tackle

* High-growth: Your start-up must have the potential to be scalable.

Apply for Co-Founders

Application deadline: 6th October

Commitment: 
In-person, Belfast:
Hot House Weekend: 22nd & 23rd November 2024
Design Bootcamp: 7th December 2024
Pitch Night: 24th March 2025

Online 6.00pm – 8.30pm:
The Core Programme: Monday Nights, 13th January – 10th March 2025

Cost: Free to join

Check out our website for lots more information on the programme – https://www.co-founders.co/