Learn from the people who built Idaho.
Then build what’s next.(with their help, of course)
A selective cohort for Idaho founders past the idea stage, built around the legal, financial and go-to-market decisions that actually break companies. Free to accepted founders, with a one-year Trailhead membership on the way out.
What it’s like to be a Trailblazer
From the application in August through to a network you are still leaning on years later.
- 01August to October
You apply
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.
- 02November to December
The Reignite Reunion
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.
- 03Ahead of every session
The Pulse Check
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.
- 04January to June
In the room
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.
- 05All six months
Around the table
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.
- 06June and well after
The network that stays
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.
Featured guest speakers
Idaho’s leadership and legacy. The entrepreneurs, operators and leaders who built the state we know and love, coming back to help the founders earlier in their journey follow in their footsteps. Hover a card for the session they led.
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Companies they have built and led
The founders who’ve come through
A growing network of alumni, with a new cohort every year, and ideas spanning agriculture, medical devices, semiconductors, fintech, defense, AI and consumer software. Learn more about what they are building by tapping the plus on any card.
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Companies our alumni are building
Thank you to our program sponsors
Ashurst Perkins Coie has presented Tree City Trailblazers since it began. Their attorneys lead the legal sessions, and they fund the one-year Trailhead membership every member takes with them.
Investing in local founders matters to me because all boats rise. Trailhead exists to reduce that risk and create a platform where founders are supported while learning and supporting each other.
Global Accelerator Network member
Applications for the 2027 cohort are open
For Idaho founders past the idea stage, already generating revenue or actively raising.(well, kind of – we keep a few seats for founders earlier along, so apply anyway!)
Start your applicationThe application only takes about twenty minutes. If you have questions along the way, our programming team is at info@trailheadboise.org and happy to help – just reach out!