IN Forge
Foundation Incubator
Before the startup. Before the company. Before the round.
We find rare tech geniuses from all backgrounds - often before the world knows their name - and give them mentorship, resources, and a permanent partnership to build transformative companies. No cohorts. No demo days. Just results.
- 9+ Exceptional founders of every age
- Life Permanent partnership model
- 1% Rigorous selection, not volume
The insight
The most significant value in any generation is not the assets that get built. It is the people who build them.
Why it exists
The most important platform Foundation has ever built.
Not because it is the largest. Because the most powerful competitive advantage in capital allocation is identifying exceptional people before the market prices them.
Foundation Incubator is the official human-capital arm of Foundation - the same institutional discipline that defines New York, Israel, and Ukraine, now directed at talent.
The return is not philanthropic. The platform takes a meaningful stake in companies and projects that emerge - shared success that compounds across careers and generations.
What participants receive
Everything required to become inevitable.
A rigorous environment for gifted founders - from early ages upward - with real ownership, elite mentorship, and barrier removal so focus stays on elite results.
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World-class mentorship
Personalized guidance from elite technologists, entrepreneurs, and domain experts who have already built at the highest level.
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Formation & structure
Company formation, IP strategy, business modeling, and early capital structuring - not workshop theater.
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Peer environment
A collaborative circle of equal-caliber founders. No cohort batching. Permanent membership once accepted.
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Global impact focus
Projects aimed at transformative solutions - climate, health, education, security, and beyond - with real ownership stakes.
Two-way ownership
Guidance and capital upside - aligned, not extracted.
Selected participants receive unrestricted resources and intellectual freedom. The platform takes a meaningful stake in resulting ventures. Success is shared for life.
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Rigorous selection
Strict process. Only the best applications advance - regardless of age, passport, or postcode.
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Permanent partnership
Once inside the ecosystem, lifetime access to talent, network, and support - not a fixed program end date.
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Full-spectrum platform
Real company formation, fundraising interfaces, workforce and personal barrier removal - a safe environment for elite delivery.
Who enters
Founders, families, mentors, and capital - one forge.
The platform is selective on every door. Fit matters more than volume.
Founders & families
Exceptional young founders and the families who support them - mentorship, education, and permanent ecosystem access.
Mentors
Operators and experts who invest judgment, not just time, into the next generation of founders.
Investors
Allocators seeking institutional exposure to human capital before market discovery prices the upside.
Partners
Companies and institutions that open distribution, domain expertise, or infrastructure for founders at the frontier.
The team
Operators who forge talent - not headlines.
Three principals. One standard of discretion, precision, and permanent partnership - across capital, markets, and the technology that powers the Incubator.
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Founder & Chairman
Richard Ohebshalom
Principal · New York · Israel · Ukraine · Incubator
Architect of the Foundation ecosystem. Over twenty-five years of principal-level real estate access and execution - privileged, pre-deal relationships in the markets that matter most, and the operating discipline that unifies every vertical.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Foundation Ukraine
Valeriia Akatova
Foundation · Ukraine · Incubator · Mentorship
Co-founder of Foundation and CEO of Foundation Ukraine. A defining operator voice across reconstruction capital and human capital - bridging on-the-ground Ukraine intelligence with mentorship in marketing, business, design, and the Incubator's next generation of founders.
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Co-Founder & CTO
Damien Soitout
Technology · FinTech · Platform systems
Foundation’s CTO and co-founder. Built the technological stack behind secure collaboration, diligence workflows, and multi-brand operations - and brings finance, business, and FinTech depth to Incubator and Ukraine platforms.
The Incubator platform
Enter the full Foundation Incubator experience.
How it works, who it is for, application pathways, and the permanent partnership model live on the dedicated Incubator site - the same dark canvas, the same precision, the same standard.