Partner with us
Sponsor once. Show up all year.
Our partners meet founders, operators and investors across every series we run. Every sponsorship also funds our free programming and the accelerator.
Season partner
Your brand across the summit, dinners, hackathons and newsletter for a full year.
Event sponsor
Own a single event or a moment within it, from the coffee bar to the group photo.
Hire us to build your event
We design and run founder events for companies that want to support early stage builders.
Previous Partners and Supporters
- Snowflake (opens in a new tab)
- BMO (opens in a new tab)
- 1Password (opens in a new tab)
- AWS (opens in a new tab)
- Loop8 (opens in a new tab)
- Watson Institute (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt (opens in a new tab)
- Wells Fargo (opens in a new tab)
- UC Berkeley SCET (opens in a new tab)
- Startup Grind (opens in a new tab)
- Wefunder (opens in a new tab)
- Perkins Coie (opens in a new tab)
- Nixon Peabody (opens in a new tab)
- Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP (opens in a new tab)
- OpenVC (opens in a new tab)
- Spring Fertility (opens in a new tab)
- Alma (opens in a new tab)
- OpenSphere (opens in a new tab)
- LegalBridge (opens in a new tab)
- Carta (opens in a new tab)
- One Way Summit (opens in a new tab)
Our impact
- founders and builders in our community and newsletter
- 30,000+
- events a year: demo days, pitch competitions, hackathons, fireside chats
- 50+
- founders through 3 accelerator cohorts since 2025
- 72
- of our participants are women
- ~50%
94% of alumni surveyed say we were a key contributor or the driving force behind getting started.
Alumni survey, August 2026 (17 responses)
Merit, not pedigree
Partners help fund our programs. They never decide who gets in. There is no equity and no tuition in our accelerator, ever, and that is what makes the room worth being in.