Accelerator program

The Foundry.

Twelve weeks, twelve companies, twice a year. $500K on standard terms for 7% — and the undivided attention of a partner for the duration.

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Applications for the Spring 2027 cohort close 14 November 2026.

  • Investment$500K
  • Equity7%
  • Cohort size12 companies
  • Duration12 weeks

The twelve weeks

Four phases, one outcome.

No curriculum, no mandatory workshops, no demo day theatre. The programme bends around your company rather than the other way round.

  1. Weeks 1–3

    Sharpen

    Strip the idea to its load-bearing insight. Customer conversations every week, and a written thesis you would defend in front of a sceptical buyer.

  2. Weeks 4–7

    Build

    Ship something real to real users. Weekly working sessions with an operator who has built the same primitive at scale.

  3. Weeks 8–10

    Sell

    First contracts, first pricing, first no’s. We open doors and sit in the room until you no longer need us there.

  4. Weeks 11–12

    Raise

    Narrative, materials and warm introductions to twenty funds chosen for your specific company — not a demo day stage.

Who it is for

Twelve companies we can genuinely help.

We accept roughly 1% of applications. There is no advantage in applying more than once per cohort, and no disadvantage in applying again next time.

  • One to three founders, at least one technical
  • Pre-seed: no institutional round raised yet
  • Working on something inside our seven focus areas
  • Able to be in New York or San Francisco for six of the twelve weeks
  • Willing to be told directly when something is not working

What you get

Beyond the capital.

  • Talent & hiring

    Direct sourcing for the first fifteen hires, compensation benchmarks, and honest reference calls on every executive candidate.

  • Go-to-market

    Warm paths into 400+ enterprise buyers across our network, plus pricing and packaging work before your first serious contract.

  • Next round

    Narrative, materials and a curated list of the right leads — introduced eight to ten weeks before you need the capital.

  • Founder support

    A confidential peer group of forty founders, and a partner who takes the difficult call on a Sunday without a calendar invite.

Mentors & operators

The people you actually get time with.

Sixty operators are on call across the network. These six anchor every cohort — two sessions each, scheduled around your build, never a panel.

  • Rachel Kim

    VP Engineering, infrastructure company (IPO 2023)

    Scaling engineering from 5 to 90

  • Adaeze Obi

    Former Chief Revenue Officer, enterprise SaaS

    First ten enterprise contracts

  • Marcus Hale

    Research director, applied machine learning

    Evaluation, inference economics

  • Sofia Bianchi

    General Counsel, two regulated fintechs

    Licensing and regulated launches

  • Takeshi Nakamura

    Head of Design, consumer platform

    Product craft before headcount

  • Elena Fischer

    Founder, climate hardware (acquired 2022)

    Selling into utilities and industry

Mentors are unpaid and hold no equity in cohort companies. We think advice you can ignore without cost is the only advice worth hearing.

Applications are open.

The Spring 2027 cohort closes 14 November 2026. Applications take about twenty minutes and are read by a partner.

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