500 Global🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series ASeed-stage investor using a lots-of-little-bets approach with hundreds of small initial checks, running global accelerators and offering local part...Click for details
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator🔒 $•• – $•• check · SeattlePre-Seed · SeedCo-founds and incubates startups over 4–18 months inside the Allen Institute for AI's frontier research ecosystem, offering up to $600k, $1M non-di...Click for details
Big Idea Ventures🔒 $•• – $•• check · New YorkPre-Seed · Seed · Series AGlobal alternative-protein accelerator with a five-month program (New York, Singapore, Paris), backing consumer and enabling-tech startups and prov...Click for details
Black Flag🔒 $•• – $•• check · San DiegoPre-Seed · SeedVirtual accelerator offering $250k–$1M as the first check, with direct DARPA and defense-buyer access and a single application reviewed by three sp...Click for details
Creative Destruction Lab🔒 $•• – $•• check · TorontoPre-Seed · Seed · Series ANonprofit for deep-tech (AI, quantum, space, climate) founders offering eight-week mentorship cycles with rotating entrepreneurs, investor panels a...Click for details
Deep Checks🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-SeedEfficiently gets founders priority introductions to deeptech VCs by explaining your startup after a deck review and connects you with deeptech ange...Click for details
Expa🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series AActs as an institutional co-founder: originating ideas, building products and pairing CEOs, run by repeat founders (Garrett Camp, Naveen Selvadurai...Click for details
Google Launchpad Accelerator🔒 $•• – $•• check · Mountain ViewSeed · Series A · Growth · Pre-SeedGoogle Launchpad Accelerator works with later-stage startups that already have traction in emerging markets like Brazil, India, and Nigeria, provid...Click for details
HAX🔒 $•• – $•• check · NewarkPre-Seed · SeedPre-seed hard-tech program that co-builds physical prototypes with in-house engineers/designers, offers a 35,000 sq ft Newark lab plus Shenzhen/Pun...Click for details
Heavybit🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series AEarly-stage investor in enterprise infrastructure that works hands-on from day 0 to help technical founders turn code into companies across DevSecO...Click for details
Hyper🔒 $•• – $•• check · United StatesPre-Seed · Seed · Series AEarly-stage, season-based four-week cohorts that pair founders with hands-on unicorn operators from billion-dollar exits, combining an accelerator ...Click for details
IndieBio🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · SeedEarly-stage accelerator for synthetic biology and life sciences that gives scientist-founders lab independence with co-located BSL-rated wet labs a...Click for details
Neo🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series ANeo invests in college students and very young technologists via a communal mentorship network of several hundred engineers, founders, and advisors...Click for details
OpenAI Startup Fund🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series A · Series BOpenAI Startup Fund is the venture arm of OpenAI, investing in exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI to reim...Click for details
SciFounders🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · Seed · Series AFellowship for early-career scientists run by repeat deep-tech founders, prioritizing technical founder quality, for those who've never written bus...Click for details
South Park Commons🔒 $•• – $•• check · San FranciscoPre-Seed · SeedSouth Park Commons is a venture capital fund that originated as an intellectual community for experienced technologists to explore their next move ...Click for details
StartX🔒 $•• – $•• check · Mountain ViewSeed · Series A · Series BMission-based nonprofit accelerator for early- and growth-stage founders, taking no equity or fees, offering deep Stanford integration and a 2,700+...Click for details
Y Combinator🔒 $•• – $•• check · Mountain ViewPre-Seed · Seed · Series AEarly-stage batch accelerator turning tiny MVPs into companies via 400+ startups per batch, intense peer-pressure learning, founder-character scree...Click for details