a16z speedrun is accepting applications for the Alpha Fellowship, an in-person program in San Francisco for highly technical students, dropouts, and recent grads. The fellowship exist through two tracks:

The Founder Track backs individuals pre-entity and pre-idea with up to $250K in investment, over $1M in credits across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor, an automatic final interview for speedrun’s up to $1M investment, and coworking space at the speedrun office . It runs eight weeks, January 11 to March 5, and is open to technical students and grads within one year.

The Talent Track embeds fellows in the speedrun community for four weeks, February 8 to March 5, with introductions to breakout portfolio startups and a shot at landing a role; it’s open to grads within three years.

 The fellowship is run with EO Ventures and includes curated dinners with engineering leaders and portfolio founders. Applications are due October 11, 2026. To apply, click on the link here