Draper House Americas

Are you building the next big company? Let us show you how to get there.

Draper Founders Program is a hands-on startup accelerator for ambitious founders who want to build scalable companies, sharpen their strategy, and move faster with the right guidance and pressure. Through live workshops, direct mentorship, and ex*****on-focused sessions, founders move from early ideas to clear decisions and real momentum.

This isn’t about theory or motivation. It’s about mindset, strategy, and venture-scale thinking inside a global startup ecosystem built to help founders grow with intention!

🌍 Draper programs across 6 countries: 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇾🇨🇱🇲🇽
🚀 Applications are rolling all year
🤝 Founder mentorship, workshops, and real acceleration

ABOUT DRAPER FOUNDERS PROGRAM

Draper supports tech founders across multiple verticals through 10 days immersive programs designed to refine business models, strengthen ex*****on, and prepare startups for growth and fundraising. Every session is built to challenge assumptions and help founders build companies that last.

The DFP is for founders who are:

🚀 building early-stage startups
📈 thinking about scale, growth, and fundraising
🧠 ready for honest feedback and sharper decisions
🌍 aiming to build global companies

Huge thanks to everyone who made DFP Punta del Este happen 🤍

Founders, mentors, speakers, partners, what a few intense, beautiful days.

Sharing some moments from our time in Punta del Este:
real conversations, new connections, big ideas, and a lot of energy in the room.

So grateful for this community.
Onwards 🚀

We asked founders to describe the program in 3 words!

No prep. No coaching. No polishing after the fact. Just the first thing that came out of their mouths 😌

The answers come from people deep in it right now: building, missing sleep, shipping anyway, learning faster than they expected, and leaning hard on the people around them!

Some answers are blunt. Some are messy. A few surprised us. All of them sound like real founders talking about a real stretch of their lives.

This is what the Draper Founders Program actually feels like, told by the people doing the work!

Demo Day is coming up. Come meet the founders and their startups: https://luma.com/vcpanel.demoday

This week at the Draper Founders Program in Punta del Este, we welcomed Eduardo Amadeo, Venture Partner at Overboost and VC at Kamay Ventures.

Eduardo shared hard-earned perspective on venture building, how to choose the right opportunities, and what it really takes to scale strong companies across Latin America.

No hype. No shortcuts. Just clear thinking, long-term conviction, and an honest founder-first view of growth.

Grateful for the generosity, clarity, and for challenging founders to raise their ambition and strengthen how they build!

👉 Join us at Demo Day next Tuesday! https://luma.com/vcpanel.demoday?tk=5RCPZl

POV: you’re pushing founders to think bigger, sharper, faster.

This is what a Draper Founders Program workshop actually looks like! Real sessions, real founders, and real pressure to think clearly, move faster, and build startups that can scale beyond the first idea!

In Punta del Este, our director Ignacio Marchionna works hands-on with early-stage startup founders, challenging assumptions, refining strategy, and helping teams turn vision into ex*****on 💪🏽

Draper Founder Programs are designed for founders who don’t want comfort . . . they want clarity. Through live workshops, direct feedback, and deep strategic work, founders leave thinking globally, deciding faster, and building with intention!

🌍 Draper programs operate across 6 countries
🚀 Applications are rolling all year
🤝 Hands-on founder mentorship, real sessions, real feedback

After these intense days of learning, building, and pushing limits,
the big day is finally here.

Tomorrow, our founders take the stage.
They pitch their startups, their vision, and everything they’ve been working on.

Join us at Demo Day.
Be part of the conversation, the energy, and what comes next.

📅 Demo Day — tomorrow
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dd42UqBt

POV: You’re watching the first Draper Founders Program Monterrey come to life, right here at Tecnológico de Monterrey 🚀

In just three days, founders have gone from introductions to deep brainstorming, intense mentoring, rapid iteration, and the kind of breakthroughs that only happen when talent, technology, and the right environment collide.

This is the first edition of the Draper Founders Program in Monterrey — and you can already feel the momentum. The Tec ecosystem, deep-tech startups, and global Draper network are shaping something powerful from day one.

And this is all leading to one moment: Demo Day on December 18.

If you want to see where these ideas are headed, and meet the founders building the next wave, join us here:
👉 https://luma.com/demoday.monterrey

Let’s build the future from Monterrey🔥

In just a bit, we’ll be sharing some photos from our days in NYC 🇺🇸 a week filled with hard work, big ideas, late-night conversations, and the kind of energy you only get when great founders come together.

We want to thank everyone who was part of this experience and congratulate all the founders for the incredible effort they put in.
A special shout-out to .proplytics and .usmani007 , who are now heading into a top-tier Draper University program, and to , who earned the opportunity to join another Draper Founders Program abroad.

We’re proud, inspired, and grateful.
What a journey, and this is only the beginning. 🚀🤍

What if the problem isn’t what you say, but how you say it? 🎙📚
Most leaders communicate with data and slides… but very few know how to tell a story.

In this clip, Andrés Oliveros —co-founder of Astrolab— breaks down why storytelling is becoming one of the most powerful leadership skills today: from how you pitch, to how you give feedback, to how you move people to action.

He shares:
📖 Why stories change the way leaders communicate
🤝 Why relationships and trust still beat any growth hack
🧠 How behavioral science helps you think clearly under stress
🤖 Where AI can support communication—and where it can’t replace humans

Watch the full interview on YouTube:

Featuring: Andrés Oliveros, Co-founder at Astrolab
A Draper Founder Spotlight conversation.