We are looking for scientists – postdocs, PIs, or working in the industry who are founders or about to become founders. Their solution aims to solve a global problem and involves a scientific breakthrough. They are gearing up to raise funding. Note that we will evaluate all applications and hold interviews with potential participants regardless of whether they meet all three cirteira. You are strongly encouraged to apply even if in doubt of eligibility. If you think this is too advanced for your current stage, please join the wilbe.com platform with free educational content and a community of like-minded scientists and scientist founders where you can kick-start your journey.

The program is fully remote and run over 2 weeks. Each week we expect roughly 20hrs of work in total. This is split into 4 hours of contact time with the Wilbe team and our instructors (four 1-hour sessions); and 16 hours of work on your company related to one of four areas. These areas are 1) Framing customer conversations; 2) Securing the right investors; 3) Telling your best story; and 4) Setting up the right company infrastructure.

For those selected as part of the 2-week Bootcamp, we expect a time commitment of 20 hours a week. These are split into four 1-hour live sessions that include 1:1s and group workshops with our instructions, and 16 hours of self study each week. Please note we expect 100% attendence and commitment to this scale. Establishing and running a company is a unique challenge that requires the appropriate time commitment in order to be successful.

No, there are no geographic restrictions. Just make sure you are available to join the online sessions.

We run BSF to help selected new founders avoid expensive mistakes and perform to the best of their capacity. Through the course we share with you our playbook and connections and to spend time with you, learning about the extent of your vision and observing your development as a founder. The ideal outcome is that we can become your first investors and help you line up conversations with other aligned investors.

This is not an accelerator and there are no required terms to sign prior to joining. This is a crash course in fast, practical decision making for scientist founders.

Feel free to reach out to our Founder Advocate Ali Farzanehfar at ali@wilbe.com

For participants that are successful in the application process and selected into the course, there is no fee and the course is free. However, we expect 100% participation in all activities during the 2-week bootcamp. Due to the short and intense nature of the course we actively remove participants who cannot commit fully. If you are not selected but still wish to learn more about how to start your journey as a scientist founder please join wilbe.com where you can find a freely open-sourced educational material on becoming a scientist founder.

We accept applications on a rolling basis, and the next course will be announced soon. Meanwhile, sign up for Sandbox and follow us on Linkedin to stay up to date about any events and program announcements.