Accelerators

Google Developers' regional accelerators are tailored specifically to their local markets and provide access to the best of Google—its people, network, and advanced technologies—helping startups build great products. Using the knowledge gained from running startup accelerators, this model has been used to reach other audiences such as game developers and non-profits.

Heavybit is an early-stage venture capital firm and the premiere investor in developer-first startups. Since 2013, they’ve worked with numerous Pre-Seed to Series A companies that have redefined how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale mission-critical software.

Heavybit offers team-based structured support and a platform tailored to your specific needs that incorporates their unique partnership, an active community of 600+ domain specific advisors, and fellow Heavybit startup founders.

To learn more: https://www.heavybit.com/faq

Previously called 500 Startups, 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Their portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million.

Remote 4-week accelerator that invests $300K for 5% equity.

Seed specialists that partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies. Pear VC is a top-performing fund. In the last decade, they have had 3 IPOs, 8 companies valued over $1B, and hav emany more category-defining companies in the making.

South Park Commons is a community and fund all in one. They bring together talented people to share ideas, explore directions, and realize the opportunities that’ll get you there.

The GPs started companies themselves to develop new technologies, and they want to help more technical founders do the same. That's why they invest in the early stage, giving their voting rights back to the founding teams. They also run the SciFounder Fellowship, a mentorship program for idea-stage founders with a $400,000 investment.

Venture arm of OpenAI. Also runs Converge: a highly selective, five-week program for exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reimagine products and industries.

Venture studio and VC Fund founded by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp to support early-stage startups through expertise, access, and funding.

Accelerator, mentorship community, and VC fund led by Ali Partovi.

Antler is a global pre-seed VC firm now in over 20 cities internationally. Antler specializes in local Founder Residencies, and invests in founders across industries from Day 0. In the US, Antler has 3 locations in New York, Austin, and Boulder, where they run 6-week Founder Residencies.

They focus on proving all of the on-ramps that founders need from the early days. That could mean dedicated help fundraising, 1:1 coaching, or getting in the weeds with product and growth challenges. Antler aims to be their founders' go-to resource in the early days of building.

AI2 cofounds startups with entrepreneurs that use revolutionary AI models to create products that people love. Their process works for all entrepreneurs, but there is a variance in how long it takes to build a healthy business, particularly in the earliest stages. Each founder’s journey with AI2 is unique and can range from 4 to 18 months.

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Techstars is a global accelerator which invested in more than 3,300 early-stage startups. As one of the largest pre-seed investors in the world, their portfolio is as diversified as their 7,300 founders are unique - from HealthTech and FinTech, to Web3 and CleanTech; from Miami and Silicon Valley to Lagos and London.

Accelerator composed of 1800+ serial entrepreneurs, industry experts, tenured Stanford professors, and 700+ well-funded growth-stage startups, including Patreon, Kodiak Sciences (IPO), Lime, Eargo (IPO), Protocol Labs, Ethos Insurance, OpenSea, Nearpod, Lucira (IPO) and more.

This company building program is for pre-seed and seed-stage founders actively working on an idea, product and company. Arc alumni come from a variety of backgrounds: some are first or second-time founders, while others have helped scale top tech companies.

CDL is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers a 9-month objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, scienceand technology-based companies.

SOSV's program for startups with a hardware element. Works across two locations, San Francisco & Shenzhen.

SOSV's Indie Bio is the world's first biotech accelerator.