Founder School

Founder Sprint

Founder Sprint is an intensive 15-week program crafted to help student bring out their best founder potential.
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Founder Sprint is a program for the most driven founders-to-be at Aalto. Designed to boost startup skills and fast-track students’ entrepreneurial journey, the intensive program combines deep-dive modules, personalized coaching, and real-world venture-building experience.

Whether or not students end up founding a company, they will walk away with the mindset, tools, and network to do so.

Each Sprint is built around a small cohort. Together with experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors from the Founder School network, students co-create the content based on their needs and ambitions, and the current best practices of the startup world.

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Aalto Founder Sprint (Applications for Fall 2026)

Aalto Founder Sprint (Fall 2026) applications are open. This is a highly selective, highly rated 3-month sandbox where Aalto students learn to build like true founders - trusted by students, founders, and VCs.

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Why Founder Sprint?

Support at Earliest Stages

We support students at the earliest stages of their journey, no matter their starting point or previous experience in the startup world.

Skill and Knowledge Development

We enhance entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, empowering students with the tools and mindset needed to succeed.

Community and Networking

We offer access to a vibrant, high-trust peer group and connect students with a network of top founders and industry leaders.

Outcomes

After completing the Founder Sprint, our participants will leave with a strong sense of startup agency, confidence to launch something big, and a valuable network for future endeavors.

FAQs

Founder Sprint — Spring ’26 Edition

Founder Sprint — Fall ’25 Edition

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A blurred image of a group of people sitting and discussing in a modern office space with glass walls.

Aalto Founder Sprint (Applications for Fall 2026)

Aalto Founder Sprint (Fall 2026) applications are open. This is a highly selective, highly rated 3-month sandbox where Aalto students learn to build like true founders - trusted by students, founders, and VCs.

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