A few intense weeks where a roomful of immigrant students go from a blank page to a funded pitch—guided by founders, bankers, and operators who've built real companies.
Every team moves through the same path—from a raw problem to a deck they pitch on stage—with a new guest mentor each week.
With a guest founder mentor
Students start from a niche market and a specific problem, frame a solution, and shape a first business model before thinking about scale.
With a finance & marketing mentor
Teams learn to price, project revenue, and position their idea—turning a concept into numbers that hold up and a story that reaches the right audience.
With a pitch & startup mentor
Students build the deck they'll present on stage—sharpening the problem and solution, framing market and traction, and landing a clear ask.
Every bootcamp ends on a stage. Finalists are chosen on progress and potential, then present live to a panel of judges and mentors.
Finalist on stage
Teams field questions from judges in a live Q&A, and the strongest ideas walk away with cash to actually build. Across our bootcamps we've awarded prizes straight to student founders.
Meet entrepreneurs who turned an idea into a funded business
SwimSense
$1,000 Prize
NextDoor Digital Marketing
Sweetly Unique
The strongest students earn private online sessions with leaders like Shashank Saxena, a VC who sold his company VNDLY to Workday for $510 million.
In these closed-door webinars, founders dig into each team's business and give direct, personalized feedback drawn from actually building and scaling a company.
Every participant keeps learning through Genesis—our online platform with 16+ entrepreneurship lessons—and stays in the community long after demo day.
Explore Genesis"For the first time, I felt like my background was an advantage, not a barrier. The mentors actually understood my journey."— Roshan Arai, 1st Place Winner
"Project Origin gave me the confidence to pursue my startup idea. The mentorship was invaluable."— Ritika Singh, 3rd Place
"I learned more in a few weeks than I did in a year of trying to figure it out on my own."— Ganesh Gowda, Participant
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