Discipulus Ventures

10 days of intensive founder training in El Segundo. Daily sessions with unicorn founders, investor office hours, and a Demo Day in front of 100+ investors.

What happened to the founders who came through. Every company below was trained through a Discipulus Cohort.

Past speakers and mentors including Katherine Boyle (a16z), Shaun Maguire (Sequoia), Tom Mueller (Impulse Space), and more.

The page names Jakob Diepenbrock as general partner and Augustus Doricko as venture partner at Discipulus Ventures.

Cultivating a visionary vanguard of founders solving America's hardest problems in El Segundo.

Discipulus Ventures presents its fourth cohort and demo day in El Segundo, featuring ten participating companies. The firm has deployed capital and is growing in the city.

Apr 2026 · Deseret NewsNews article

Jakob Diepenbrock discusses Discipulus Ventures’ cohort model, in which founders live together in El Segundo while building hard-tech companies. The iConnections feature describes a setup bringing 10 founders into one house with one chef, framing shared living as part of how the cohort develops its companies.

Mar 2026 · iConnectionsNews article

The Los Angeles Business Journal reports on Discipulus Ventures' El Segundo accelerator and its efforts to support founders developing hard-tech and defense-oriented companies.

Jun 2025 · Los Angeles Business JournalNews article

Discipulus Ventures is running an El Segundo cohort for founders building military technology companies. The effort is described as a Y Combinator-style program focused on military tech.

Feb 2025 · ForbesNews article