The Global Founders' Skills Accelerator (GFSA) is a 3-month summer program that provides funding, mentoring, and skills training to top student startups from MIT and other international schools. It is housed at MIT's Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship and aims to scale the impact of student ventures. The unstructured predecessor helped startups like Locu, while GFSA has expanded globally to work with teams from China, Germany, and more. The 2014 program aimed to support even bigger ideas with 12 MIT teams and 4 international teams participating in customer development training, mentorship, and pitching opportunities.