The Founding is for founders who need an operating environment, not motivation. You live with other builders, ship every week, face customer truth, and get access to operators, investors, and mentors.
The residency is selective, but not stage-theatre selective. We are looking for founders with evidence, speed, taste, and a reason the house can change their trajectory.
Founders should know exactly what the residency provides before applying.
The visuals should feel like the residency itself: quiet work, visible evidence, and direct conversations.
The house is not built for one personality type. It is built for builders who can use proximity, feedback, and visibility to become harder to ignore.
Turns unclear problems into working product and useful systems.
Creates momentum by making the messy parts of execution move.
Finds demand, opens rooms, and learns through real buyer conversations.
Sees a non-obvious future and can pull people toward it.
The house works only if founders are willing to make progress visible. You do not need to arrive polished. You do need to show the work.
The strongest applications make it clear how the founder thinks, moves, learns, and creates momentum.
The Founding covers housing, two meals, workspace, programming, operator access, investor exposure, and a ₹36,000 monthly stipend during the residency. In return, The Founding asks for 1% equity at your next funding round.
A ninety-day house built around building, feedback, and visible weekly progress.
Selected founders live in the residency house for the full program period.
Daily food support so founders can reduce operational drag.
A shared build floor for product work, calls, demos, and deep work.
A monthly stipend during the residency to help founders stay focused.
Every week ends with visible progress, asks, blockers, numbers, and customer truth.
Specific help from people who can unblock product, GTM, capital, hiring, and story.
Structured access through weekly demos, private meetings, and the final Demo Day.
The Founding asks for 1% equity at the next funding round, subject to final agreement.
Funding is not guaranteed. Final legal terms should be reviewed before selection. The exact instrument, timing, and treatment if no funding round occurs are subject to final agreement.
These are the points that should be made explicit in final legal copy.
The cadence is practical: build, talk to customers, review evidence, show progress, and make clear asks.
Goals, blockers, asks, and the operating truth for the week.
Focused product, engineering, design, or research work.
Office hours and sessions with people who can help directly.
Calls, sales work, pilots, feedback loops, and product review.
Founders show progress, numbers, asks, blockers, and next moves.
Founder dinners, investor/operator visits, and uninterrupted build time.
The process is designed to understand what you are building, how fast you move, and whether the residency can meaningfully help.
Yes. Solo founders and founding teams can both apply.
Yes, but we look for strong problem clarity, speed, and evidence that you can move.
An MVP helps. A prototype, pilot, or unusually clear problem evidence can also be enough.
No. Revenue is useful signal, but it is not required.
No, but selected founders should be ready to formalize company terms before the residency begins.
Yes. The residency is built around living and building inside the house for ninety days.
AI, enterprise, consumer, fintech, healthcare, infra, media, and serious software-led companies are all in scope.
No. Funding is not guaranteed.
The Founding asks for 1% equity at your next funding round, subject to final legal agreement.
The final treatment depends on the agreed instrument. We will not bury this in vague language.
The ₹36,000 monthly stipend helps founders reduce personal operating pressure during the residency.
Travel is not currently listed as covered unless separately agreed.
Yes, if they can commit to living in Hyderabad during the residency.
Yes, if they can commit to the full residency and the company is serious.
Yes. Founding teams can apply, though cohort capacity is limited.
Founders leave with sharper evidence, investor exposure, alumni access, and a clearer company-building path.
If you are building something serious and can commit to ninety days inside the house, apply before June 14.