a16z speedrun opens Alpha Cohort 2: up to $250K for students, deadline Oct 11
andrewchen · x · 2026-09-08
a16z speedrun has opened applications for the second Alpha Fellowship cohort, targeting technical students, recent grads, and dropouts, with a deadline of October 11.
Two tracks:
- Founder track: up to $250K investment plus $1M+ in credits from AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and others; pre-idea, pre-team, individual applications welcome.
- Talent track: fast-tracked engineering roles at breakout startups.
Both tracks run in person in San Francisco with a kickoff retreat, weekly office hours, coworking, and 1:1 support. Over 11,000 people applied to the inaugural cohort.
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