COHORT_16 OPEN · MARCH 2026

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Pre-Revenue FounderSTAGE_0 → PMF

Stop guessing. Pressure-test your riskiest assumptions in 48 hours with founders…

Scaling OperatorSERIES_A → SCALE

Culture breaks at 30 people. Learn the exact playbooks that kept Stripe, Notion,…

Corporate InnovatorENTERPRISE → INTRAPRENEUR

Corporate antibodies kill 90% of internal ventures. Get the frameworks that let …

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NODE_01

Your Seat at the Workshop

You walk in cold. By hour four, you've pitched your business model to an angel investor and stress-tested unit economics on a whiteboard with a founder who just closed their Series A.

12founders per cohort
Priya Mehta headshot, pre-revenue healthtech founder
Priya
Pre-Revenue
Marcus Webb headshot, series A devtools founder
Marcus
Series A
Aisha Okonkwo headshot, corporate fintech innovator
Aisha
Corporate Innovation
David Kim headshot, pre-revenue edtech founder
David
Pre-Revenue
NODE_02

Mentors Orbiting the Room

Not keynote speakers. Operators who are currently in the work — a CTO who shipped to 10M users last quarter, a founder who failed twice and sold on the third attempt for $80M.

6active practitioners per session
Raj Patel mentor headshot, ex-CTO and three-time founder
Raj
Ex-CTO
Sarah Chen mentor headshot, general partner at Emergence Capital
Sarah
GP
James Osei mentor headshot, founder who sold company to Salesforce
James
Sold to Salesforce
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The Alumni Network Spanning Cities

Every Catalyst graduate is a node. When you need an intro to a Series B investor in Austin, a manufacturing contact in Shenzhen, or a growth hire who won't break your culture — someone in the network has the connection.

1,400+alumni across 38 cities
Elena Frost alumni headshot, raised four million seed round after cohort 12
Elena
Cohort 12 → $4M seed
Omar Hassan alumni headshot, made 40 hires in six months after cohort 8
Omar
Cohort 8 → 40 hires in 6mo
Nia Thompson alumni headshot, became corporate venture lead after cohort 15
Nia
Cohort 15 → Corp venture lead
Leo Santos alumni headshot, company acquired in 2024 after cohort 6
Leo
Cohort 6 → Acquired 2024
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Investor Partners in the Orbit

Fourteen VC firms have standing relationships with Catalyst. They attend demo days, mentor sessions, and have invested in 47 companies directly from cohort presentations — not warm intros, direct dealflow.

47companies funded via Catalyst
Emergence Capital office representing Series A to C investment firm
Emergence
Series A–C
Hustle Fund building representing pre-seed investment firm
Hustle
Pre-seed
First Round Capital building representing seed to Series A firm
First
Seed–A
PROGRAM_TRACKS

Three formats. One standard.

No certificates. Every format ends with something you can use tomorrow.

INTENSIVE_WEEKENDMOST INTENSE
$2,400per founder
48 hours · Mar 14–16, 2026

The Pressure Test

Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. You walk in with a deck. You walk out with a deck that has survived six rounds of live pitching, whiteboard unit economics, and a room full of people paid to find the holes.

  • Investor-ready pitch deck, tested live
  • Unit economics stress-tested on whiteboard
  • Three warm intros to relevant investors
  • Cohort Slack for 12 months post-event
4 spots remaining
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EIGHT_WEEK_COHORTMOST POPULAR
$4,800per founder
8 weeks · Apr 7, 2026

The Growth Track

Tuesday evenings and one Saturday per month. Deep work on the framework most relevant to your stage — whether that's finding PMF, scaling the team, or navigating corporate innovation antibodies.

  • Personalized growth framework for your stage
  • Weekly accountability with 3 peer founders
  • Two mentor office hours per month
  • Alumni network access for life
  • Demo Day presentation to investor partners
2 spots remaining
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ON_DEMANDLOWEST BARRIER
$890one-time
Self-paced · Immediate access

The Playbook Library

Every framework, template, and recorded session from five years of Catalyst cohorts. Searchable by stage, bottleneck, and sector. Includes community access and one 60-minute diagnostic call.

  • 200+ hours of recorded sessions
  • All frameworks and templates
  • Community forum with 1,400+ founders
  • One 60-min diagnostic call included
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REAL_OUTCOMES

Founders who met here.
Outcomes that compound.

These aren't testimonials. They're conversations between founders who sat at the same table and are still building together.

Cohort 14 — PMF Workshop
Both companies raised within 90 days
Priya Mehta founder of Healthbit, cohort 14 participant
Priya MehtaFounder · Healthbit

"Marcus — remember when you tore apart my pricing model on day two? I rebuilt it the way you suggested. Closed our seed round last week. $2.1M."

Cohort 14
Marcus Webb founder of DevPipe, cohort 14 participant
Marcus WebbFounder · DevPipe

"That whiteboard session changed how I think about pricing forever. We shipped our new packaging last month — 40% higher ACV. Catalyst paid for itself 200× over."

Cohort 14
Cohort 11 — Scaling Operator Track
Combined: 60 hires, zero regrets in 6 months
Omar Hassan VP Engineering at Flowstate, cohort 11 participant
Omar HassanVP Engineering · Flowstate

"Nia — just used the cultural interview framework from week 5. Hired 12 people in the last 6 weeks. Zero regrets. The structured reference call script alone saved me from two terrible hires."

Cohort 11
Nia Thompson Innovation Lead at NatWest Ventures, cohort 11 participant
Nia ThompsonInnovation Lead · NatWest Ventures

"I used the internal venture pitch template to get $3M of internal funding approved. My CFO said it was the clearest business case she'd seen from the innovation team. Ever."

Cohort 11
Cohort 9 — Corporate Innovator Track
Internal venture now a standalone business unit
Leo Santos intrapreneur at Siemens Energy, cohort 9 participant
Leo SantosIntrapreneur · Siemens Energy

"Three months after Catalyst I had a $5M budget, a team of 8, and a sponsor at C-suite level. The "corporate antibody map" exercise in week 3 was the thing that changed everything."

Cohort 9
$340M+
raised by alumni
since 2019
94%
find first customer
within 90 days
1,400+
active alumni
across 38 cities
4.9/5
average rating
across 847 reviews
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