London's Brick Lane

Walk down Brick Lane in London’s East End, and you’ll feel something electric. It’s where cultures collide, creativity thrives, and ambition finds a way. For centuries, this street has been home to immigrants, artists, and entrepreneurs who refused to accept “no” as an answer.

From Bengali restaurants to vintage shops to tech startups, Brick Lane embodies the spirit of building something from nothing. It’s messy, it’s real, and it’s unstoppable.

That’s the energy we wanted to capture.

The Problem We Saw

“In 2024, while coaching my 100th founder, I realized traditional accelerators were broken for working professionals.”
— Samar Singh Kohli

Y Combinator wanted you to relocate to San Francisco and give up 7% equity. Techstars demanded you quit your job for 3 months. Online courses left you isolated without accountability. One-on-one coaches were $10K/month with no structure.

Meanwhile, I watched brilliant professionals—senior engineers at Google, product managers at Microsoft, directors at Atlassian—sit on startup ideas for years because they couldn’t find a path that fit their lives.

They didn’t need another course. They needed a system.

The Solution: Bricklane

  • Lithuania as our base:

    Low taxes, digital infrastructure, EU access. We could stay lean and pass savings to founders.

  • Remote-first by design:

    Work around your 9-to-5. Live sessions recorded. Asynchronous community.

  • No equity ever:

    We make money from program fees and memberships, not your success.

  • Holistic approach:

    Most accelerators teach you to build. We teach you to lead.

The Results Since launch.

237

founders through the program

83%

launch to customers

8.3M

in collective funding raised

50+

countries represented

0

Zero equity taken

But the stats don’t tell the full story. The real wins are:

→ The Google engineer who launched her healthtech startup and hit 1,000 users

→ The dad with two kids who built his MVP at night and quit his job 8 months later

→ The corporate employee whose company sponsored her to innovate internally

→ The founder who pivoted in Week 3 (before wasting 6 months building the wrong thing)

Our Mission Today

Democratize startup building. Every professional with ambition and 10 hours/week should be able to launch their idea—regardless of location, technical skills, or network.

We’re building the Brick Lane of startup acceleration: vibrant, multicultural, accessible, and relentlessly focused on getting things done.

No gatekeeping. No equity extraction. Just results.

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