Techstars

a16z SPEEDRUNMega

Finance

Up to $1M investment + $10M+ in partner credits

a16z speedrun is a 12-week accelerator in San Francisco that invests up to $1M per company. The standard deal is $500K for 10% equity on a SAFE, plus another $500K in your next round within 18 months, with pro rata rights, an employee option pool and no board seat. Accepted companies also get more than $10M in credits across 250+ partner tool providers, named on the page as AWS, GCP, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Stripe and Deel. Applications are accepted year-round on a rolling basis, the priority review window for cohort SR008 runs October 12 to November 1, and SR008 itself runs late January through April 2027 with in-person attendance in San Francisco required.

Entrepreneur FirstMega

Finance

$600K+ in credits, plus up to $250K investment

Entrepreneur First is a talent investor that backs individuals before they have a company or a cofounder. Its own homepage states the program includes an equity-free grant while you are still ideating, up to $250K investment once you form a company, up to $5M in follow-on through later rounds with support to Series B, and office space for nine months in central London, Bangalore and San Francisco. The same page lists over $600K in credits: $350K in Azure, plus $250K+ from OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, PostHog, Datadog, ElevenLabs and others. The credits are not self-serve, they arrive only with acceptance into a cohort, and EF takes equity once a company is formed.

StartmateMega

Finance

AUD $120,000 investment at a $1.5m post-money cap

Startmate is an Australia and New Zealand accelerator that invests AUD $120,000 in every company it accepts. Founders who have not raised before take the money at a AUD $1.5m post-money valuation; teams that have already raised AUD $250,000 or more from VCs or angels get their last round's valuation matched instead. The program runs 12 weeks from January 25 to April 29, 2027, hybrid, with three in-person weeks in Australia and access to a network Startmate puts at 4,000+ ANZ founders, operators and investors. This is equity capital rather than credits, so accepting it dilutes your cap table.