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The program

Inside the Origin Bootcamp

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.

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3 weeksHands-on curriculum
WeeklyGuest founder mentors
LivePitch competition finals
$1,000Top cash prize per team

Week by week

The three-week curriculum

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.

Guest lecture with Prithiviraj Logan Guest lecture, week one

01 Ideation

Ideation, solutions & business models

Students start from a niche market and a specific problem, frame a solution, and shape a first business model before thinking about scale.

  • Problem discovery
  • Niche targeting
  • Solution frameworks
  • B2B / B2C / B2B2C
Students collaborating during a bootcamp session

02 Build the business

Finance & marketing

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.

  • Financial planning
  • Pricing strategy
  • Revenue projections
  • Marketing fundamentals
Guest mentor teaching a bootcamp session

03 Tell the story

Pitch deck development

Students build the deck they'll present on stage: sharpening the problem and solution, framing market and traction, and landing a clear ask.

  • Deck structure & flow
  • Problem–solution story
  • Market & traction
  • A clear ask
A finalist pitching live at the Origin Student Founders pitch competition

Demo day

Pitch live. Win real funding.

Every bootcamp ends on a stage. Finalists are chosen on progress and potential, then present live to a panel of judges and mentors.

  • Finalists selected on progress and potential
  • Live judging and Q&A with mentors
  • Cash prizes awarded on the spot

Some of our winners

Students who turned an idea into a funded business.

Roshan Arai, Origin Student Founders pitch competition winner 1st place · $1,000

Roshan Arai

SwimSense
Rhea Pujari, Origin Student Founders pitch competition winner 2nd place

Rhea Pujari

NextDoor Digital Marketing
Ritika Singh and Alina Ji, Origin Student Founders third place winners 3rd place

Ritika Singh & Alina Ji

Sweetly Unique
Second place team receiving their prize check
2nd place, Origin Challenge
Third place team receiving their prize check
3rd place, Origin Challenge
An online founder webinar on the immigrant entrepreneur journey

After demo day

Feedback from founders who've exited

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.

And every participant keeps learning through Genesis, our online course, long after the cohort ends.

In their own words

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
Origin Student Founders 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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