4 weeks of building
in seoul
Turn what you’re working on into something people can use. Build, launch, get feedback, and do it again.
- Four weeks of focused building
- A practical startup playbook
- Other founders moving with you

A four-week startup program for founders in Korea.
Build your product. Learn from global founders.
deadline october 12th 11:59pm KST.













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The program
Work on your product. Get unstuck. Make your next move.
Turn what you’re working on into something people can use. Build, launch, get feedback, and do it again.

Build relationships with global founders. Explore investor introductions and referrals. Take your next step beyond Korea.

zerobase has the best silicon valley resources for our founders.
Talk to founders who have built, launched, and raised from YC and a16z. Bring the problem in front of you. Leave with a clearer next step.

Korea’s highest acceptance rate into YC, a16z Speedrun, and Founders, Inc.

The people
Meet the founders and operators in our network.

Zerobase

Clicky (YCP26)

Pally (YCS25)

Dedalus Labs (YCS25)

EO

Pally (YCS25)

URSA (SR005)

Doe (YCS25)

Nozomio Labs (YCS25)

Space (SR007)

Imagine AI (YCF25)

Clad Labs (YCS25)

Hillclimb (YCS25)

Veritus (YCS25)

Hotbox (SR006)

Founders. Inc

TheVentures

BluGlass

NZVC

NZVC

Outsome

Plug & Play

Airtree
Life at Zerobase
A look inside the sessions, the work, and the community.
Zerobase completely changed how I think about building a startup. I used to spend months trying to make everything perfect. Zerobase pushed me to launch quickly, talk to users, and learn from the market. I made more progress in a few weeks than I had in the previous six months.
It feels less like an accelerator and more like being surrounded by founders who actually build. Everyone is shipping, testing ideas, and helping each other. That energy makes you move much faster.
The biggest value for me was realizing that Korea doesn’t have to be my only market. I always wanted to build globally but didn’t really know where to start. Zerobase made Silicon Valley and the global startup ecosystem feel much more accessible.
I came in with an idea and left with an actual company. We launched our MVP, spoke to users, changed our product several times, and eventually found something people actually wanted.
The mentors don’t give you generic startup advice. You can bring a very specific problem you’re dealing with that week and talk directly with founders who have already gone through it.
Zerobase helped me become much more aggressive as a founder. I used to hesitate before launching, emailing investors, or reaching out to people. Now I just do it.
I joined because of the program, but the founder community ended up being the best part. I met founders from all over Asia who I still talk to every week.
This was the first startup program where I actually built something every week. There weren’t endless lectures or theory. Every week there was something concrete to ship, test, or improve.
The Silicon Valley exposure was completely different from watching startup content online. Meeting founders and investors in person made everything feel much more real and reachable.
Zerobase gave me the confidence to think bigger. Before the program, I was thinking about building a small business in Japan. After meeting global founders, I started thinking about building something for the world.
If you’re expecting someone to build your startup for you, this probably isn’t the right program. But if you’re willing to move fast, experiment, and ask for help, you can make an incredible amount of progress.
I learned more about startups here than I did from years of watching YouTube and reading startup books. The difference is that you’re learning while actually building your own company.
The best thing Zerobase did was shorten my feedback loop. Instead of spending three months wondering whether an idea was good, I learned to test it in a few days.
I joined without knowing anyone in the global startup ecosystem. By the end, I had spoken with founders, investors, and builders I never thought I would have access to.
Zerobase feels unusually founder-first. There’s much less emphasis on looking impressive and much more emphasis on actually making progress. Nobody cares about a fancy deck if nobody wants your product.
As an Asian founder, one of the hardest things is figuring out how to enter the US startup ecosystem. Zerobase helped bridge that gap and gave me much more confidence about building globally.
The program made me realize how slow I was moving. Watching other founders launch, get customers, and change direction so quickly completely reset my standard for speed.
What I liked most was how international the community felt. You’re building alongside people with completely different backgrounds, markets, and ideas. It forces you to think beyond your own country.
I thought I needed more funding. What I actually needed was more users. Zerobase kept pushing us back toward customers, feedback, and distribution. That completely changed how we prioritized the company.
Zerobase is most valuable for founders who are ambitious but don’t know how to enter the global startup ecosystem yet. It gives you a place to start, people to build alongside, and access to a network that otherwise feels very far away.
Zerobase is a startup school for founders.
We help founders go from an idea, or sometimes no idea at all, to building, launching, talking to users, getting traction, and becoming ready to raise capital.
We care less about how polished your startup looks and more about how quickly you can learn.
Zerobase is designed for ambitious early-stage founders who want to build globally.
You might be:
You do not need to have everything figured out before joining.
No.
Some founders join with an existing startup.
Others join with an idea.
Some join without an idea and start experimenting during Zerobase.
What matters most is that you're willing to build, launch, talk to users, and move quickly.
No.
Solo founders are welcome.
If you already have co-founders, your team can participate together.
Zerobase is also a good environment to meet other builders, although we don't guarantee that you'll find a co-founder during the program.
Almost anything.
We've worked with founders building across AI, B2B SaaS, consumer, healthcare, fintech, education, developer tools, hardware and more.
We care much more about the founder and the problem than whether your company fits a particular trend.
The Silicon Valley Camp is an intensive founder experience in San Francisco.
The goal isn't startup tourism.
It's to put founders into the environment.
Depending on the camp, founders may meet:
There may also be office hours, founder sessions, co-working, community events, company visits and pitch opportunities.
The exact program changes each camp.
Probably.
You don't need to feel ready.
Some of the best founders start with more questions than answers.
If you have the urge to build something and you're willing to move quickly, apply.
We'll decide whether Zerobase is the right environment for you.
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You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
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