Terms and conditions — summary
This short summary highlights key points of the Innovator Founder Programme Terms. The full Terms govern your participation and apply in the event of any conflict with this summary.
- The IFP is an eight-week educational and developmental programme delivered by Infinitum Education Limited.
- Acceptance is selective. Submitting this enquiry is not an offer of a place. Places are allocated through a four-step selection process.
- The IFP is not a visa application service, immigration advice service, or endorsing body. Completion does not guarantee endorsement, a visa, or any commercial outcome.
- Endorsement decisions are made independently by the relevant Home Office-authorised endorsing body. Visa decisions are made by the UK Home Office.
- You must obtain independent immigration advice from a qualified solicitor or OISC-regulated adviser before relying on the programme for any visa-related purpose.
- The Founding Cohort fee is £15,000 per founder; the standard fee is £25,000. A statutory 14-day cooling-off period applies once a contract is formed.
- Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By submitting this enquiry you consent to that processing.
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Build the venture and the founder.
Built for your UK Innovator Founder Visa.
Most founders approaching the Innovator Founder Visa have a business idea. What they do not yet have is the venture rigour, strategic fluency, and founder capability that endorsing bodies are actually looking for. The Innovator Founder Programme closes that gap. Experientially, in eight weeks.
The three tests every Innovator Founder Visa application must pass
The UK Innovator Founder Visa is endorsed against three published criteria: Innovation, Viability, and Scalability. Endorsing bodies assess every submission through those three lenses, then pressure-test them in a live interview.
Most applications fall short not because the founder lacks ambition, but because the submission does not demonstrate all three criteria coherently, and the founder cannot defend business when challenged.
"The endorsing body is not reviewing your plan. They are assessing whether you are the kind of founder who can build and scale a genuinely innovative UK business."
| Document services |
Online courses |
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| Structured around Innovation, Viability, and Scalability: the three endorsement criteria | |||
| In-person sessions | |||
| Weekly 1:1 mentoring on your specific venture, not generic advice | |||
| A pitch in front of real investors before your endorsement interview | |||
| A submission pack you built yourself and can defend under questioning | |||
| A community of founders going through the same process at the same time |
At a glance
2 · Viability & Scale
3 · Endorsement Readiness
Three phases. One outcome.
Each phase builds on the last, from venture architecture to commercial case to full endorsement readiness.
Innovation & Market Foundation
Build the strategic foundations of the venture. Define a defensible innovation claim, validate a real market opportunity, and establish why this founder for this venture.
- A defined and defensible innovation claim, mapped to commercial differentiation
- A validated market opportunity with credible sizing and UK entry rationale
- A competitive landscape analysis and positioning framework
- Oxford in-person workshop, Week 2
- Full curriculum details are shared after your discovery call.
Viability & Scale
Build the commercial and financial case. By the end of Phase 2, founders have a full financial model, a business plan draft, and a clear investment thesis.
- A full three-statement financial model and capital deployment plan
- A scalability architecture with unit economics and job creation projections
- An investment thesis and fundraising narrative
- Live fireside sessions with investors, VCs, and endorsing body representatives
- London in-person workshop days, Weeks 4 and 6
- Full curriculum details are shared after your discovery call.
Endorsement Readiness
The integration phase. Founders bring everything built into a complete, submission-ready pack, then defend it under the same scrutiny as the endorsement interview.
- A complete submission pack: business plan, financial model, questionnaire responses
- A Dragons' Den-style pitch presented to a live investor panel
- A mock endorsement interview with individual debrief
- Final presentations assessed against Innovation, Viability, and Scalability
- Oxford in-person final day, Week 8
- Full curriculum details are shared after your discovery call.
Experiential by design.
Most entrepreneur programmes deliver content. The information is everywhere. What content cannot give you is the experience of applying it under pressure: building something in real time and defending it in front of people who will tell you where it breaks.
The Innovator Founder Programme is delivered by Infinitum Education, an education company with a track record of delivery across the UK and internationally. Infinitum's Entrepreneurship Bootcamp has been praised consistently by participants and faculty across 30 or more countries. The IFP applies the same simulation-based, experiential methodology, built for founders, with everything mapped directly to the IFV endorsement criteria.
This video features faculty from Infinitum's Entrepreneurship Bootcamp: the programme the IFP is built upon.
Academics and practitioners from Infinitum programmes.
The Innovator Founder Programme is taught by academics and practitioners from Oxford, Harvard, and Microsoft, alongside serial entrepreneurs, VCs, investors, and industry leaders who have built, funded, and scaled ventures across global markets.
Infinitum Education started from Oxford, with a track record of delivery across the UK and internationally. Faculty drawn from leading universities, investment networks, and government innovation programmes. Participants from 30+ countries.
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Week 8: The Pitch Competition
Present your venture in Oxford in a Dragons' Den-style pitch competition, before a live panel of investors and experts, with questions you cannot prepare a script for.
What endorsing bodies actually assess.
The Innovator Founder Visa has three endorsement criteria. Every session in the Innovator Founder Programme maps to one or more of them. By Week 8, founders have a verified, evidenced, presentable case against all three.
UK endorsing bodies: four are currently active
The Infinitum track record.
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Transparent pricing. No equity.
The standard programme fee is £25,000. Five founding places are available at £15,000, awarded by selection.
- All three programme phases
- Oxford and London in-person days
- 10+ hours per week 1:1 and group mentoring across the cohort
- Live investor fireside sessions
- Dragons' Den-style pitch competition, Week 8
- Mock endorsement interview + individual debrief
- Complete submission pack review
- Lifetime Infinitum alumni network access
- All three programme phases
- Oxford and London in-person days
- 10+ hours per week 1:1 and group mentoring across the cohort
- Live investor fireside sessions
- Dragons' Den-style pitch competition, Week 8
- Mock endorsement interview + individual debrief
- Complete submission pack review
- Lifetime Infinitum alumni network access
The process is selective.
The Innovator Founder Programme is not a course you purchase. It is a programme you apply for. The founding cohort is limited to 5 founders. Places are allocated through a selective four-step process. Not every enquiry proceeds to a full application; we choose our cohorts carefully.
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