Compress your 6-month goals into 8 weeks.
For mission-driven pre-seed and early-stage founders. If you're solving meaningful problems by challenging the status quo, we built this for you — validate your startup, build traction, and prepare for launch with a community around you.
In Person | Venice, CA | September 29th
APPLY NOWWhether you're validating your idea, closing your first few sales, building your team, or proving out your product… going at it alone is the slowest way forward.
Work amongst peers who get it.
Without expert consultation, you overwork on the wrong things and underinvest in what matters.
FSS is taught by expert operators, exited founders, and investors who know the journey well.
Learn how to manage your energy and mindset for sustainable, healthy growth.
“In Founder Sprint Studio, I stepped back, reset, and got clearer on our customer personas and content strategy. It made enough of an impact that I’m now working long term with two of the facilitators, and since then we’ve started scaling the team while continuing to grow profitably with strong momentum across Amazon and our site, reaching 50,000+ customers!”
“The amount of connections I have gotten from the KINN have been amazing. I’m still in regular contact with another founder from the cohort for a potential collaboration.”
“FSS gave me the right sparring room. Since starting the program I’ve closed my first capital, from a fund whose founder backed Patreon and Hims, and brought on advisors from Patreon, Poppi, Levels and Equinox. When the terms were on the table, the program director, Chaya, helped me evaluate the deal and helped me weigh the tradeoffs.”
“The KINN Pre-Accelerator was the perfect opportunity to re-engage with the LA community. My experience was highlighted by a range of really thoughtful and interesting and relevant content for entrepreneurs and a real interest in connecting on a human level.”
*Limited to 10 founders
The program combines live collaboration and instruction sessions with access to mentors and fractional talent as you build. There are two in-depth sessions on developing your own awareness and regulation as a founder.
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Chaya leads Founder Sprint Studio with a fierce advocacy for founders, sustainable business, and mission-driven companies. A decade of experience at CVS Health, a healthcare diagnostics startup, and IDEO shapes her conviction that LA's founders will prove impact and profit aren't at odds. She's the throughline across all eight weeks, having supported 30+ founders across four cohorts. This is your champion.
“This program provided a space for me to connect with minded entrepreneurs to learn, grow and aid each other. The community aspect kept me motivated and the weekly seminars and workshops were very insightful, educative and informative... I would wholeheartedly recommend it!”
Have a 90 day go-to-market (GTM) plan ready
Have built several investor-ready deliverables (pitch deck, presentation, networking strategy) tailored to your company's specific needs
Expedite a meaningful business milestone in a structured format
Experience greater resilience and leadership capacity to take on bigger and bolder challenges
Get access to the KINN network of 35,000 founders, creatives, and service providers.
Fill gaps fast with vetted fractional talent, experienced operators, and mentors who've built and scaled companies before.
Build alongside the community at the Venice clubhouse for the full program and beyond.
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Jim Rohn
AI startups · Media · Software · Service businesses
You'll participate in a cohort of other focused founders ready to take their companies to the next level.
The ecosystem that we've built is a hotbed of startup talent – from entrepreneurs to investors to creators.
This is an opportunity to plug in at the ground level and experience the energy of real builders.
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“Paul helped me examine whether my daily decisions were driven by fear or by purpose and joy —shifting my focus from avoiding obstacles to acting on what truly mattered.
Paul is like conscious leadership magic in a bottle - if I could I would start everyday with a sip of Paul's perspective, I would.”
Questions? You can reach us at courses@thekinn.co