Neo Accelerator is an intensive, three-month program for highly technical pre-seed and seed founders across North America. Each year, Neo brings together a tight-knit cohort of 20 standout technical teams and gives them the funding, mentorship, community, and network needed to build world-class companies.
Founders begin with a fully-paid, month-long bootcamp in Sunriver, Oregon, living and building alongside mentors and other startups. The experience then continues in Neo’s San Francisco office, where teams can co-work, refine their product, access the broader Neo community, and prepare for Demo Day. The program ends with an all-inclusive retreat in Arizona and a pitch to top-tier investors, engineers, and tech leaders.
Neo offers $600K in founder-friendly funding through an uncapped SAFE with a $10M floor valuation, along with shared upside across the whole cohort. Startups also receive access to world-class mentors—founders and operators from Notion, Google Sheets, Webflow, Dropbox, Figma, Cognition, Airbnb, Scale AI, and more—through weekly 1:1 meetings, workshops, and intimate events.
The program includes substantial technical advantages: $350K+ in OpenAI & Azure credits, priority GPU access, hands-on AI support from Microsoft and OpenAI researchers, and discounted tools across the startup stack. Neo also provides access to one of the strongest engineering recruiting networks in the industry, used by companies like OpenAI, Notion, and Ramp.
Backers of Neo include iconic leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg, Ben Silbermann, Amjad Masad, Akshay Kothari, Sarah Smith, and Henry Kravis—and Neo-backed companies include Cursor, Kalshi, Bluesky, Vanta, Moment, Sapien, Caldera, and Cassidy.
Neo places a strong emphasis on diversity: 45% of its capital has gone to female or underrepresented minority CEOs. Solo founders are welcome, as long as at least one founder is technical.
Founders who join Neo gain lifelong access to a community of 300+ tech veterans, mentors, and operators—a network designed to give far more than it takes.
San Francisco, California, United States