Become the founder incubators say yes to
A pre-incubator in San Francisco for people who want to start a company and haven't. Founders and investors work with you until you have a company worth funding. Then they help you get in.
Build your company one week at a time
Training Camp is free and online. You work in a small group with a mentor. Every week you say what you'll ship, and they keep you moving. Momentum is the whole method.
You can start any week, and you don't need a company yet. Entry is a short application and one thing you have made and finished.
Earn your four weeks in San Francisco
The Summit Team is four weeks in San Francisco. You work in the same room as founders and investors who have started companies of their own. One of them is your mentor, one to one. You build alongside them, and when you apply to the incubators you are not doing it alone. The real interview won't be your first.
Tuition is $5,000. Every spot is earned in an interview. We have scholarships.
We take no equity. An incubator's percentage is a fair trade: they write you a check. We don't write checks, so we don't take a piece. Your cap table stays clean, and every point of your company is still there for the people who do. Camp is free. The Summit Team's tuition pays the mentors.
San Francisco is the network
The people who start and fund companies are here. The Summit Team puts you at a desk among them for four weeks. The room is Patchworks, a working office five minutes from Y Combinator and OpenAI. The founders and investors who keep desks there include Y Combinator and South Park Commons alumni. Lunch is one long table.
Every mentor has started a company or funded one
The Summit Team is mentored by working founders, investors and operators. Each one works with the class in person.
Cecilia Chen
Moonshot League · Stocki AI · Starchild AI
Runs Moonshot League. She has taken multiple AI products to market: Stocki AI, an investing assistant, and Starchild AI, a personal AI agent platform. She studied at Johns Hopkins and built her career in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Charlie Yuan
Milton Maxwell · Patchworks · Lyft
Invests in the AI build-out at Milton Maxwell, from private companies to the public markets. Helped start Lyft's Level 5 self-driving team and grew it to a few hundred. Also runs Patchworks, a shared workspace in San Francisco.
Jeff Wang
Meta · Twitter
Founded a company in 2013. Now leads product for language modeling at Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab, and before that led search and recommendations at Twitter.
Jimmy Young
HadalDeep · Coinbase · DoorDash · Lyft
Founded HadalDeep, a prediction markets company, after co-founding Cache and leading product at Coinbase. Earlier ran DashPass at DoorDash and Lyft's dispatch, the system that matches riders to cars.
Yingjie Wang
Rippling · 500 Startups · Jet
Leads startup partnerships at Rippling, where she built the startup program from nothing. Before that she invested at 500 Startups for three years, founded her own company, and worked on product and strategy at Jet.
