Follow the trail, then blaze your own.

Applications open in August and close in the fall, and the form takes about twenty minutes. We are looking for Idaho founders past the idea stage, with a company already generating revenue or actively out raising.

An evaluation committee reviews every application and selects the cohort on our behalf. We announce it at our annual TCT Reignite Reunion, a night for hearing from standout alumni, honoring the cohort that just wrapped, and introducing the incoming Trailblazers.

Before each session the cohort fills out a Pulse Check on what they are actually up against that month, and those answers set the agenda. It is why the curriculum shifts every year, and why the takeaways belong to the room they came out of. No two cohorts have covered the same ground.

Nine sessions over six months. Each one puts two or three Idaho operators at the table with you for the afternoon, and they have built the companies you are trying to build. Micron, Clearwater, Saalt, Lovevery, Cradlepoint. They come to talk through the parts that were hard.You go through it with the rest of your cohort, all at roughly your stage, which is the part alumni still bring up years later. The group eats together, argues a little, and compares notes on the things founders usually only talk about with their co-founders.

By June the cohort, the mentors and the speakers are all in your phone. That is a bench of founders and operators who pick up when you call, on the Tuesday afternoon a term sheet lands or a key hire falls through, and they keep moving with you as the company grows. Every member also leaves with a sponsored one-year Trailhead membership, courtesy of Ashurst Perkins Coie, so you stay plugged into the community long after the last session.