Founders Inc expands SF campus

Founders, Inc. operates a 42,000-square-foot campus at Fort Mason in San Francisco. (f.inc) The company’s Blueprint hardware sprint is scheduled Oct. 1–Nov. 7 (roughly five weeks) with applications listed as closing Sept. 24. (f.inc/blueprint/apply) The Blueprint equipment list published on the program page names 6× Bambu Lab X-1 Carbon 3D printers, 4× NVIDIA Jetson Nano developer kits and a suite of CNC, soldering and PCB fabrication tools available to teams. (f.inc/blueprint) Founders, Inc. says it invited 50 hardware builders into the Blueprint cohort on its “Meet the teams” page, while earlier promotional material referenced plans to invite 38 teams. (f.inc/blueprint/teams / (youtube.com)) Blueprint concludes with a public showcase where top teams can secure up to $250,000 in funding and as much as $400,000 in credits, according to the program description. (f.inc/blueprint) Founders, Inc. reports it has backed more than 100 companies and typically writes first checks in the $100,000–$250,000 range while providing founders with assigned desks, lab access and dedicated office hours on campus. (f.inc/portfolio / f.inc/about) The firm’s portfolio and recent Blueprint teams include physical-AI and robotics names such as Marselia Robotics, RainierLabs and a 2026 addition called World Intelligence, described on Founders’ site as “data infrastructure for physical AI.” (f.inc/blueprint/teams / f.inc/portfolio/world-intelligence)