Your company will build a strong relationship with the participating students, who may be interested in working for your company in the future. This can be a great way to attract top talent. Your sponsorship includes access to several student events depending on level.

Innovation: Working with college students who are starting new companies can provide your company with exposure to new and innovative ideas. Your company will gain access to new technologies or business models that could be applied to your own products or services.

Branding: Sponsoring our students shows that your company is committed to supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, which can be attractive to potential customers, employees, and investors. It can also be a way for your company to demonstrate its commitment to corporate social responsibility. By supporting the development of new businesses and entrepreneurs, your company can contribute to economic growth and job creation in the communities where it operates.

Your company can connect with other organizations and individuals who are also supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. This can lead to new partnerships and collaborations that could be mutually beneficial.

The Founder Palace is not an educational or scholarship program. It is a startup accelerator customized specifically for student founders anywhere in the country. We are agnostic about where the student founders are located nor are we selecting our student teams based on their grades or which schools they attend. Our student founders “provide the vision, the passion, and the perspiration. And we provide everything else”. This allows us to maximize students’ strengths in actually launching innovative products instead of just writing business plans. These are highly self-motivated and innovative individuals. As a sponsor for our program, we offer you the Innovation Spotlight where we leverage this exclusive community of highly entrepreneurial students to solve your corporate or industry challenges and/or become your next great hires.

The exclusive student founder community we are building is much more than an one-off startup competition where entrepreneurs compete for resources. We are a resourceful, long-term peer group for the like-minded student founders who share, collaborate, and learn not only with their peers, but also from our successful founders and executives in our network. Because The Founder Palace management teams are experienced entrepreneurs and executives in the industry, we understand that it takes more than one startup competition to gauge the potential of a startup, especially for young student founders. We also prefer to work with sponsors who are interested in sharing similar values and mindset in cultivating long-term relationships with our founders in the community.

The key strengths of student founders are their untainted, creative ideas that could be the next solutions for the future industry problems. The Founder Palace program was created to place emphasis on the students’ strengths, not their weaknesses, and to maximize this value of creativity for our sponsors. You never know where your organization’s next solutions will come from. Is it going to be coming from your own domain industry or from an unrelated sector that might be applicable to your organization? We have Fortune 500 clients that specifically ask us to identify technologies or solutions in other industries that might be applicable to their industry that their competitors are not aware of. Our mass database of student founders enables us to segment our sectors of interest to address customization needs from our sponsors.

We do pay competitive compensation to support a motivated team that can sustain a successful program in Silicon Valley. But these packages are heavily biased toward equity participation in successful founding teams. The Founder Palace team has a very high standard of how we judge our own company success, and that is how many startups we can help launch and gain traction by the end of each cohort. We are not here to teach students how to start a company but to actually start companies together. This is our mission and why The Founder Palace is created in the first place. Our team members bring an exceptional entrepreneurial good track record to The Founder Palace, and we are dedicated to building something meaningful that can truly help the next generation of entrepreneurs.