Founderra — Build Your First Startup

What we offer

Everything you need
to build & ship.

Problem-Backed Idea

You don't need to come with one. We give you real problems and ideas worth solving — grounded in the market.

Experienced Mentors

Real people who've been there — ready to support you. They roll up their sleeves and build alongside you.

Everything to Succeed

Frameworks, custom tools, feedback loops, and real customer validation — a complete toolkit from day one.

Remote & Global

No commute. No mandatory networking events. Work from anywhere with a globally-minded cohort.

MVP You'll Be Proud Of

In 5 months you'll have something tangible — a real product you built, validated, and shipped into the world.

The program

5 Months.
5 Phases.
1 Real Venture.

Each month is a distinct phase with a clear mission and a concrete outcome. No fluff — just a structured, hands-on journey from problem discovery to live MVP. You'll move fast, learn from real users, and build with people who've done it before.

Month 01

Understand the Problem

Explore context, real users, and existing alternatives — so you avoid building the wrong thing from the start.

OutcomeA clear problem definition and a specific user worth solving for.

Month 02

Talk to Real People

Validate your assumptions in the real world. Talk to users, test hypotheses, and pivot confidently if needed.

OutcomeA validated problem and a confident solution direction.

Month 03

Make It Tangible

Turn ideas into something people can react to. Create prototypes that make your solution visible and testable.

OutcomeA tangible proof of concept that generates real feedback.

Month 04

Design & Build Your MVP

Build a product people can actually use. Design and develop with focus — no unnecessary complexity.

OutcomeA functional MVP ready for real users.

Month 05

Launch & Own It

Ship your product and take ownership of it. Launch publicly and learn from real-world usage.

OutcomeA live MVP — and a shift from student to founder.

Who we are

Meet your
mentors.

We're people who've lived, studied, and worked abroad — and saw how ideas grow when the right community, mindset, and support come together. Now we're bringing that energy back home.

Founderra was born to share what we've learned out there: the courage to start, the habit of learning by doing, and the belief that collaboration beats competition. We don't just connect young founders with mentors — we build with them.

Juraj / Mentor

Venture Builder · Fintech · Edtech

A venture builder and product strategist with a strong background in banking, fintech, and edtech. After Big Four technology consulting he co-founded Slovakia's first high-school startup incubator and mentors early-stage startups across several accelerators. A passionate advocate for innovation and education on a mission to find the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Innovation & Product

Hana / Mentor

Innovation · Business Dev · Social Impact

Studied Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Denmark, working with early-stage startups on business development and strategy. After returning home she joined the banking sector to focus on corporate innovation. Passionate about projects with tangible social impact — she brings a practical, hands-on approach to Founderra.

Strategy & Impact

Rony / Mentor

Sales · Salesforce · Google

Years of sales and business development at Salesforce — closing mid-market deals across Central and Eastern Europe — then at Google, supporting Slovak and Czech strategic publishers in growing ad revenue. Beyond that, he's mentored colleagues, friends, and startups in sales, helping them build commercial skills from the ground up.

Sales & Growth

Cohort 1

Meet the external mentors
of Cohort 1.

Each month our founders had the chance to sit down with an inspiring external mentor from a different background and industry — to sharpen their thinking, challenge their assumptions, and push their ideas further. Here's who agreed to mentor our first cohort.

Donal Greene / External Mentor

Serial Commercial Leader · Identity Tech · CRO

Donal is a serial commercial leader who has spent his career at the sharp end of identity tech. He founded Trustmatic, got it acquired by Certn, and then scaled the business as CCO to $50M+ in global ARR. After that, he grew EMEA at Innovatrics from €3M to €20M. Today he is CRO at Authologic, building the orchestration layer for identity verification. He knows what it takes to build, sell, and scale — and now he's sharing that with our founders.

LinkedIn Sales & Scale

Pavlína Louženská / External Mentor

Trend Forecasting · Google for Startups · TED · Wired

Pavlína founded TrendBrews, a trend forecasting agency specialising in CEE. Her newsletter has 13,000+ subscribers and was ranked by Substack in the global Top 50 Rising in Business. Her future predictions have been featured by Wired, ELLE, and TED. She is the lead mentor for Google for Startups across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and has received the European Citizen's Prize awarded by the European Parliament.

LinkedIn Trends & Innovation

Adam Ďurica / External Mentor

General Partner · Zero One Hundred · Forbes 30 Under 30

Adam is a General Partner at Zero One Hundred, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across Europe and the GCC. Recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work in venture capital and entrepreneurship, he seeks out relentless founders to back early and supports them through capital, network access, and execution support. He believes the next technological era will be shaped by what young builders choose to work on now.

LinkedIn Venture Capital

Peter Rod / External Mentor

Product Strategy · Service Design · StrideXL

Peter helps companies in transition figure out what they should become — and builds the foundations to get them there. Currently Strategy Lead at StrideXL, he previously directed a ten-product portfolio as Product Director at Sudolabs, a venture-building studio. He's designed early AI-supported data systems for enterprise, structured risk-shared JV validation models, and shipped agentic AI products end-to-end. He continually mentors early-stage founders from zero to product-market fit.

LinkedIn Product & Strategy

Laura Ďorďová / External Mentor

CEO & Co-founder · Tapaya · Payments Infrastructure

Laura is CEO and co-founder of Tapaya, a Prague-based payments startup that turns any ordinary device into a card terminal. She led the company through its first pre-seed round of over €1M, owning vision, operations, and fundraising. Before Tapaya, she built a compliance division from scratch at a fintech, leading a team of six through PCI certifications and an EMI licence. She studied International Relations and Cybersecurity in Prague.

LinkedIn Fintech & Payments

Build your
first startup. For real.

Everything you need
to build & ship.

5 Months.
5 Phases.
1 Real Venture.

Meet your
mentors.

Meet the external mentors
of Cohort 1.

You're not applying
with an idea.
You're applying
with your motivation.

Build your first startup. For real.

Everything you needto build & ship.

5 Months.5 Phases.1 Real Venture.

Meet yourmentors.

Meet the external mentorsof Cohort 1.

You're not applyingwith an idea.You're applyingwith your motivation.

Build your
first startup. For real.

Everything you need
to build & ship.

5 Months.
5 Phases.
1 Real Venture.

Meet your
mentors.

Meet the external mentors
of Cohort 1.

You're not applying
with an idea.
You're applying
with your motivation.