No fluff, no frameworks-for-the-sake-of-frameworks. Just the skills that make a business money and make a person hireable: sold in the market, tested in our cohorts, taught by people who use them daily, with AI as a working tool in every single one. Self-paced online, cohort-based online, in-person, hybrid. Your pace, our standard.
Turn a product into revenue. Prospecting, pitching, objection handling and closing, built for African markets where trust is the currency.
Find, structure and land the partnerships and channels that grow a business beyond its first customers.
Build an audience that buys. Content, community and paid basics for businesses without marketing budgets.
Deals, salaries, supplier terms and term sheets. The skill that pays for itself in the first conversation.
Put AI to work inside a business: automating operations, marketing and admin so small teams punch above their weight.
Build lean operations using outsourced and remote capacity, and learn to deliver outsourced work to global standards.
Grants, competitions and investment: what funders actually assess, and how to build the evidence before you ask.
From idea to working product. Practical development skills including modern AI-assisted building, for founders and future startup developers.
Get the house in order before the ask: financials, evidence base, data room and the story that survives a funder's first hard question.
Investor readiness means replacing assumptions with evidence. We help founders see their business the way a diligence team will: find the gaps first, fix or disclose them on their own terms, and walk into the room prepared.
From product to paying customers: positioning, channels, pricing and the first repeatable sales motion, built and tested in-market.
Introductions that go somewhere: buyers, partners and distributors reached through our global network, prepared for and followed through.
Cohort dates drop as each bootcamp opens. One rule across all of them: if it does not produce evidence, revenue or a hire, it does not make the curriculum.
NAVY: DELIVERED BY OUR TEAM UNDER THE FOUNDER INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP. WHITE: FI GLOBAL NETWORK FIGURES, FI.CO
This is not a business tour. No lanyards, no selfies at head offices, no inspiration. Structured go-to-market sprints for growth-stage businesses ready to sell beyond the continent: prep online, land in-market for a week of real customer and partner meetings, then close. Contracts, not contacts.
Online preparation sprints: market research, positioning, pitch refinement and discovery meetings with target-market mentors, before anyone boards a plane.
An in-market immersion week: workshops, round robins, demo meetings and showcase sessions with real partners and customers in the destination market.
Structured follow-up to convert momentum into signed MOUs, pilots and proofs of concept, with progress reviewed against clear success metrics.
Destination markets and cohort dates announced per immersion. Delivered through our global partnership network, run under the Investable Foundation.
We design and run hackathons and innovation challenges customised to a partner's brief: a corporate's supply chain gap, a university's research theme, a government's service delivery problem, a funder's focus area. Our network of founders, alumni and trained talent builds against it.
You define the problem and the constraints. We shape it into a challenge builders can attack in days, not months.
Founders, alumni and talent-pipeline graduates compete in person, online or hybrid, mentored by practitioners from our network.
Working prototypes, scouted talent, and the strongest teams fed into our bootcamps and staged programme to keep building.
Most hackathons end with pizza boxes and a forgotten Slack channel. Ours end with prototypes you can use, talent you can hire, suppliers you can onboard, and the strongest teams marching straight into our pipeline. Nothing dies at the demo day. That is the whole point.
Stages 2 and 3 of our venture-building programme, and the methodology beneath these bootcamps, are delivered in partnership with the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup network: a structured, sprint-based system refined across more than 7,500 portfolio companies in over 100 countries. Stage 1, our open hackathon layer, and Stage 4, our 18-month full venture-building programme, are delivered by the Investable Foundation alone, inside our own governance architecture.
Global methodology. African delivery. Local accountability.
Before this Foundation had a bank account, our team had already delivered nine Founder Institute cohorts and produced more than 75 alumni founders. The Foundation is new. The people running it are not. Big difference.
Co-founded by a Founder Institute alumnus, Udemy grew from the network's earliest cohorts into a NASDAQ-listed education platform. Its co-founder has credited the FI network's connections as pivotal to raising its first funding.
The network's portfolio includes African ventures such as CinetPay (Ivory Coast), BetaStore and Zowasel (Nigeria), Grow For Me (Ghana) and WattNow (Tunisia): proof the methodology produces fundable businesses in African markets, not just Silicon Valley.
Nine Founder Institute cohorts run by the team now building this Foundation, with more than 75 alumni founders to show for it. Named alumni stories are being gathered with their permission and will stand here: real founders, real numbers, verifiable. No stock photos, no invented testimonials.
NETWORK STORIES: FOUNDER INSTITUTE PUBLIC PORTFOLIO, FI.CO
Founders: apply, if you can survive the funnel. Young people and career changers: get skills businesses actually pay for. Funders: sponsor a bootcamp and we will show you every rand at work. Corporates, universities, governments: hand us your hardest problem and watch 600 builders attack it.