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Sequoia Open Source Fellowship
An equity-free fellowship by Sequoia Capital supporting leading open source developers around the world.
AI2 Incubator
$50K–$150K seed funding in exchange for equity for AI startups.
Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is a venture capital firm and early‑stage partner that invests in pre‑seed and seed startups, especially in B2B SaaS and AI, while offering hands‑on programming, community, and accelerator‑style support.
Precursor Ventures
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journey, backing them through pre-seed and seed rounds with capital and long-term support.
Vercel Open Source Program
Seasonal cohort-based program offering impactful open source projects up to $3,600 in Vercel credits, third-party OSS starter-pack credits, and prioritized support.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) is a multi‑stage venture capital firm that backs bold founders and disruptive innovations with capital and strategic support from early seed to later growth stages.
UCSB Research Mentorship Program 2026
The UCSB Research Mentorship Program is a competitive summer research program for high school students, enabling them to work on interdisciplinary, hands‑on research projects under mentorship and earn university credit.
AWS Activate for Startups
AWS Activate is Amazon Web Services’ flagship startup support program offering promotional AWS credits and related resources to help early-stage companies build, launch, and scale their technology on AWS. Founders can apply for the Activate Founders package to receive $1,000 in AWS credits
Berkeley Engineering Youth Academy 2026
The Berkeley Engineering Youth Academy (BEYA) is a hybrid STEM summer program combining online instruction and in-person lab work at UC Berkeley to develop engineering design and prototyping skills.
Cloudflare for Startups
Cloudflare for Startups is a startup support program that offers service credits, tooling, and ecosystem benefits to early-stage companies building software and SaaS products. Cloudflare credits help startups scale securely and efficiently while reducing infrastructure costs. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
The Residency
3–6-month in-person cohorts providing full-time housing, co-working space, and community for ambitious builders; locations include San Francisco, Berkeley, Cambridge (MA), Berlin, and Bangalore.
Edge City SHIFT Grants
Tiered grants ($5K–$40K) for d/acc projects in biosecurity, cyber defense, info resilience, physical resilience, neurotech & social technology.
Soma Capital Fellowship
Semi-annual fellowship investing $100K SAFE (<1% equity) in founders.
RareBreed Ventures
RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund that backs exceptional founders early, especially those outside major tech ecosystems. They write initial checks to help startups gain early traction and connect with broader investor networks.
a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator
An intensive accelerator for early-stage blockchain and web3 startups, providing capital, mentorship, and network support.
SV Angel
SV Angel is a San Francisco‑based venture capital firm that focuses on early‑stage and seed investments in technology startups. It has backed many successful companies and supports founders with both capital and strategic engagement.
Greylock Edge
3-month program with custom SAFE or priced terms + $500K+ in partner credits.
Founder Institute
16-week pre-seed accelerator/education program; participants share equity, often receive $10–$20K each.
LocalHost - Romania
A global fellowship with a hub in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, for exceptional builders.
Spark Capital
Multi-stage venture capital firm investing in products and founders across consumer, enterprise, infra, gaming, fintech and AI.
Interact Fellowship
A fellowship of technologists who collaborate, seek out difficult conversations, and push each other to do good in the world.
Emergent Ventures Fellowship
Two-year flexible research grant and community designed to support high-impact thinkers tackling big, unconventional problems.
ODF
A one-week, in-person founder onboarding experience and year-round community that helps people start and scale venture-backable companies.
EWOR Fellowship
A highly selective, virtual-first fellowship offering early-stage founders up to €500,000 in capital and 1:1 mentorship from unicorn founders to build global-impact ventures.
First Round Capital
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments and founder support for technology startups. It provides capital and operational resources to help companies grow from idea to product-market fit and beyond.
Conviction Embed
Hands-on embedded partner program offering a $150K uncapped SAFE (MFN).
Sequoia Open Source Fellowship
An equity-free fellowship by Sequoia Capital supporting leading open source developers around the world.
AI2 Incubator
$50K–$150K seed funding in exchange for equity for AI startups.
Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is a venture capital firm and early‑stage partner that invests in pre‑seed and seed startups, especially in B2B SaaS and AI, while offering hands‑on programming, community, and accelerator‑style support.
Precursor Ventures
Precursor Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journey, backing them through pre-seed and seed rounds with capital and long-term support.
Vercel Open Source Program
Seasonal cohort-based program offering impactful open source projects up to $3,600 in Vercel credits, third-party OSS starter-pack credits, and prioritized support.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) is a multi‑stage venture capital firm that backs bold founders and disruptive innovations with capital and strategic support from early seed to later growth stages.
UCSB Research Mentorship Program 2026
The UCSB Research Mentorship Program is a competitive summer research program for high school students, enabling them to work on interdisciplinary, hands‑on research projects under mentorship and earn university credit.
AWS Activate for Startups
AWS Activate is Amazon Web Services’ flagship startup support program offering promotional AWS credits and related resources to help early-stage companies build, launch, and scale their technology on AWS. Founders can apply for the Activate Founders package to receive $1,000 in AWS credits
Berkeley Engineering Youth Academy 2026
The Berkeley Engineering Youth Academy (BEYA) is a hybrid STEM summer program combining online instruction and in-person lab work at UC Berkeley to develop engineering design and prototyping skills.
Cloudflare for Startups
Cloudflare for Startups is a startup support program that offers service credits, tooling, and ecosystem benefits to early-stage companies building software and SaaS products. Cloudflare credits help startups scale securely and efficiently while reducing infrastructure costs. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
The Residency
3–6-month in-person cohorts providing full-time housing, co-working space, and community for ambitious builders; locations include San Francisco, Berkeley, Cambridge (MA), Berlin, and Bangalore.
Edge City SHIFT Grants
Tiered grants ($5K–$40K) for d/acc projects in biosecurity, cyber defense, info resilience, physical resilience, neurotech & social technology.
Soma Capital Fellowship
Semi-annual fellowship investing $100K SAFE (<1% equity) in founders.
RareBreed Ventures
RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund that backs exceptional founders early, especially those outside major tech ecosystems. They write initial checks to help startups gain early traction and connect with broader investor networks.
a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator
An intensive accelerator for early-stage blockchain and web3 startups, providing capital, mentorship, and network support.
SV Angel
SV Angel is a San Francisco‑based venture capital firm that focuses on early‑stage and seed investments in technology startups. It has backed many successful companies and supports founders with both capital and strategic engagement.
Greylock Edge
3-month program with custom SAFE or priced terms + $500K+ in partner credits.
Founder Institute
16-week pre-seed accelerator/education program; participants share equity, often receive $10–$20K each.
LocalHost - Romania
A global fellowship with a hub in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, for exceptional builders.
Spark Capital
Multi-stage venture capital firm investing in products and founders across consumer, enterprise, infra, gaming, fintech and AI.
Interact Fellowship
A fellowship of technologists who collaborate, seek out difficult conversations, and push each other to do good in the world.
Emergent Ventures Fellowship
Two-year flexible research grant and community designed to support high-impact thinkers tackling big, unconventional problems.
ODF
A one-week, in-person founder onboarding experience and year-round community that helps people start and scale venture-backable companies.
EWOR Fellowship
A highly selective, virtual-first fellowship offering early-stage founders up to €500,000 in capital and 1:1 mentorship from unicorn founders to build global-impact ventures.
First Round Capital
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments and founder support for technology startups. It provides capital and operational resources to help companies grow from idea to product-market fit and beyond.
Conviction Embed
Hands-on embedded partner program offering a $150K uncapped SAFE (MFN).
Founders, Inc
Founders, Inc (f.inc) is a hybrid community and funding initiative that backs ambitious founders with early checks, workspace, community, and ongoing support for building ventures across domains such as AI, AR/VR, hardware, tooling, and consumer technologies.
Thiel Fellowship
A two-year, $200,000 grant program for innovators aged 22 or younger to pursue full-time projects instead of attending college.
The Bridge
8-week US residency in the Bay Area for European builders to find co-founders, build teams, and secure pre-seed funding.
Founders Fund
San Francisco-based venture capital firm backing companies building revolutionary technologies.
LaunchX San Diego In‑Person Entrepreneurship Program 2026
LaunchX San Diego In‑Person Entrepreneurship is an intensive 4‑week summer entrepreneurship program for high school students, focused on building real ventures and developing startup skills in a collaborative environment.
LAUNCH Accelerator
$125K for 6–7% equity; 14-week accelerator founded by Jason Calacanis.
OpenAI Converge
6-week AI startup summit with $1M equity investment from OpenAI's Startup Fund.
Afore Grants
100% non‐dilutive microgrants of $1,000 for high‐agency builders aged 21 or younger in North America, paired with mentorship and program support.
Google for Startups Accelerator
Equity-free accelerator: no cash funding, but up to $100K GCP credits.
South Park Commons Fellowship
Fellowship-style community program investing $400,000 for 7% equity + $600K follow-on.
OpenAI Residency 2026
The OpenAI Residency is a six-month research program in San Francisco that embeds talented individuals within OpenAI’s research teams to work on frontier AI problems with mentorship and real project contributions.
Alliance Accelerator
Alliance is a leading global crypto and Web3 accelerator & founder community that helps startups reach escape velocity with funding, mentorship, and structured programming
Startup Wise Guys
Europe-wide accelerator (HQ Tallinn) providing up to €65K seed funding plus follow-on up to €300K.
HF0 Residency
Intensive 12-week live-in accelerator writing a $1M SAFE for 5% (or $500K + 3%).
Boost VC
Deep tech accelerator investing $500,000 for ~15% equity.
MongoDB for Startups
MongoDB for Startups is a technical support and credits program that helps early-stage companies build, scale, and succeed using MongoDB Atlas, the multi-cloud database platform. Participants receive credits, support, and ecosystem access to accelerate development.
Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on providing seed and pre-seed investment and support to startups and founders. Founded by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harjeet Taggar, the firm invests in high-potential technology startups and partners with founders throughout their growth journey.
Chapter One
Chapter One is an early‑stage venture capital firm focused on backing product‑driven founders building category‑defining technology companies.
PearX
12-week accelerator by Pear VC investing $250K–$2M in each startup.
Seedcamp
Europe's flagship seed fund; invests €100–€200K for ~7–7.5%.
Khosla Ventures
Early-stage and growth venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, investing in ambitious technology companies across enterprise, consumer, health, sustainability and frontier tech.
Hummingbird VC
Global seed investors backing outlier founders across deep tech, AI, SaaS, fintech and healthcare.
BoxGroup
BoxGroup is a New York‑based early‑stage venture capital firm that backs founders at the earliest stages (pre‑seed through Series A) with capital and strategic support. It partners with visionary founders across many technology sectors.
AngelPad
10-week accelerator (NYC/SF) offering $120K for 7% equity.
Founders, Inc
Founders, Inc (f.inc) is a hybrid community and funding initiative that backs ambitious founders with early checks, workspace, community, and ongoing support for building ventures across domains such as AI, AR/VR, hardware, tooling, and consumer technologies.
Thiel Fellowship
A two-year, $200,000 grant program for innovators aged 22 or younger to pursue full-time projects instead of attending college.
The Bridge
8-week US residency in the Bay Area for European builders to find co-founders, build teams, and secure pre-seed funding.
Founders Fund
San Francisco-based venture capital firm backing companies building revolutionary technologies.
LaunchX San Diego In‑Person Entrepreneurship Program 2026
LaunchX San Diego In‑Person Entrepreneurship is an intensive 4‑week summer entrepreneurship program for high school students, focused on building real ventures and developing startup skills in a collaborative environment.
LAUNCH Accelerator
$125K for 6–7% equity; 14-week accelerator founded by Jason Calacanis.
OpenAI Converge
6-week AI startup summit with $1M equity investment from OpenAI's Startup Fund.
Afore Grants
100% non‐dilutive microgrants of $1,000 for high‐agency builders aged 21 or younger in North America, paired with mentorship and program support.
Google for Startups Accelerator
Equity-free accelerator: no cash funding, but up to $100K GCP credits.
South Park Commons Fellowship
Fellowship-style community program investing $400,000 for 7% equity + $600K follow-on.
OpenAI Residency 2026
The OpenAI Residency is a six-month research program in San Francisco that embeds talented individuals within OpenAI’s research teams to work on frontier AI problems with mentorship and real project contributions.
Alliance Accelerator
Alliance is a leading global crypto and Web3 accelerator & founder community that helps startups reach escape velocity with funding, mentorship, and structured programming
Startup Wise Guys
Europe-wide accelerator (HQ Tallinn) providing up to €65K seed funding plus follow-on up to €300K.
HF0 Residency
Intensive 12-week live-in accelerator writing a $1M SAFE for 5% (or $500K + 3%).
Boost VC
Deep tech accelerator investing $500,000 for ~15% equity.
MongoDB for Startups
MongoDB for Startups is a technical support and credits program that helps early-stage companies build, scale, and succeed using MongoDB Atlas, the multi-cloud database platform. Participants receive credits, support, and ecosystem access to accelerate development.
Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on providing seed and pre-seed investment and support to startups and founders. Founded by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harjeet Taggar, the firm invests in high-potential technology startups and partners with founders throughout their growth journey.
Chapter One
Chapter One is an early‑stage venture capital firm focused on backing product‑driven founders building category‑defining technology companies.
PearX
12-week accelerator by Pear VC investing $250K–$2M in each startup.
Seedcamp
Europe's flagship seed fund; invests €100–€200K for ~7–7.5%.
Khosla Ventures
Early-stage and growth venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, investing in ambitious technology companies across enterprise, consumer, health, sustainability and frontier tech.
Hummingbird VC
Global seed investors backing outlier founders across deep tech, AI, SaaS, fintech and healthcare.
BoxGroup
BoxGroup is a New York‑based early‑stage venture capital firm that backs founders at the earliest stages (pre‑seed through Series A) with capital and strategic support. It partners with visionary founders across many technology sectors.
AngelPad
10-week accelerator (NYC/SF) offering $120K for 7% equity.
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