RenaAi Founders Accelerator
Build what you want to build in eight weeks:
one-on-one startup advisory
The CEO advises each participant one-on-one so they can build a product such as a web service or app themselves. Across seven milestones, five deliverables are handed over.
Anyone of upper-secondary age or older can request a consultation.
At a glance
- Who
- Upper-secondary age and older
- Length
- Standard 8 weeks · pace set individually
- Format
- One-on-one advisory · in person or online
- Structure
- 7 milestones
- Deliverables
- 5, handed over with signed acceptance
- Venue
- Startup incubation center (Chungmuro, Jung-gu, Seoul)
For minor participants, consultations are held with a parent or guardian.
Background
We focus on the experience of building it yourself
This program is not about handing down knowledge. We advise alongside participants as they build something from scratch and put it out.
Knowing things no longer sets you apart
AI now memorizes and understands faster and more accurately. What you know alone is becoming harder to turn into a difference.
What you have done cannot be replaced
Building something, putting it out and watching nobody use it is an experience that cannot be copied. This is the part AI struggles to replace.
Building something new is learned by doing
How to grow something that already exists is well documented. Making something that did not exist and putting it out for the first time is hard to convey through explanation. The only way is to do it yourself.
So at the end of eight weeks, you keep the experience of having built it, and what you built.
Deliverables
Five deliverables are handed over
All five are handed over with signed acceptance. They all belong to the participant and remain after the program ends.
- 01
Founder diagnostic report
A diagnostic document analyzing your areas of interest, current capabilities and the resources you can draw on.
CEO (former fund manager)
- 02
Business plan
A document covering problem definition, solution, market, revenue model and execution plan.
Written by the participant · reviewed by the CEO
- 03
Working product (MVP)
A prototype that actually runs, plus its source code and configuration documents.
Built by the participant · code and architecture advisory from the CEO
- 04
Investor-perspective feedback
Scarcity: very highA report diagnosing strengths and weaknesses against the criteria actually used in investment reviews.
CEO (former asset management fund manager)
- 05
Public presentation and record
Demo Day presentation materials, plus a video of the presentation and an attendance record.
Presented by the participant · recorded by the company
Advisory
The CEO handles all seven milestones himself
Advisory is not split among different people. One person covers all seven milestones from start to finish.
He does not build it for you, though. The participant is the one who builds; the company’s role is to help make that possible.
CEO
Byung-Geun Choi
Former fund manager · founder · company valuation
As a global equity fund manager at Samsung Asset Management, a team head at NH-Amundi Asset Management and head of product strategy at Korea Investment Management, he personally modeled the value of thousands of companies. He then founded his own company, which was valued at ~$7.5M at founding and raised angel investment. He leads all seven advisory stages himself.
- Valuation recognized at founding
~$7.5M
Valuation recognized at founding
- Raised
Angel round
Raised
- Asset management fund manager
10+ yrs
Asset management fund manager
KRW amounts converted at ₩1,340 = US$1 (October 2026).
Venue
We meet at a startup incubation center
Startup incubation center (Chungmuro, Jung-gu, Seoul)
2 Toegye-ro 36-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Chungmuro Station (Lines 3 and 4)
It is a space where real companies are based and work. You will run into people at the next desk who are running businesses. Consultations, advisory sessions and the final presentation all happen here. Everything can also be done online.
2 Toegye-ro 36-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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Milestones
Each milestone leaves one document
Each of the seven milestones answers one question. Once it is answered, a document remains, and those documents add up to the five deliverables above.
M1
Diagnosis
What are you starting with?
M2
Problem definition
Is this problem worth solving?
M3
Solution design
How will you solve it?
M4
Build
Does it actually work?
M5
Validation
Will anyone use it?
M6
Investor perspective
How does capital see this?
M7
Presentation
Can you explain it?
Is there something you want to build?
It is fine if you do not have it yet. Deciding that is the first step.
Feel free to ask us on KakaoTalk.
For minor participants, consultations are held with a parent or guardian · FAQ