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.

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍: Click here to apply (apply by: 30.11.2025)

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 1.0 — Fall ’25 Edition

As part of the Founder Sprint, the cohort will travel abroad to benchmark leading startup ecosystems, learn from founders, investors, and operators, and understand international market differences early. The trip helps validate trends and emerging technologies, provides real founder case lessons, and strengthens mindset, inspiration, and motivation. It also expands each member’s global network, creating opportunities for partnerships, insights, and future growth.

Founder Sprint Cohort 1.0 – Stockholm, including:
Lovable
Synca
Teeming.ai
KTH Innovation
Stockholm School of Business
SSE Business Lab
EQT Ventures
Antler Sweden
Inventure
Vinnova
Nordic Tech Week (Nordic Founders)
Strawberry Webrowser
Founders House
Venga
Wave Ventures

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