a16z Speedrun offers up to $250K to students and dropouts, plus $1M in cloud credits
andrewchen · x · 2026-10-12
Andrew Chen announced the final application day for a16z Speedrun's Alpha fellowship, targeting students, dropouts, and recent grads. Individuals can apply pre-entity, pre-idea, pre-team, with up to $250K in investment.
Perks include an automatic final interview for Speedrun (up to $1M investment), $1M in credits across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and more, coworking at the Speedrun office, partner office hours, and an 8-week in-person program running January 11 – March 5.
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