A16z Alpha Fellowship for Pre-idea Founders

a16z Speedrun Alpha, for pre-idea/pre-team/pre-everything founders it's time to bet on yourself, and figure out your startup idea. 2026 is well underway, crazy stuff happening in AI, and you're building agents/apps/whatever every night+weekend. You want to start a startup but you're working or still going to school. what if you're pre-idea, pre-product, pre-launch, and even a solo founder? You need time to cook The Alpha Fellowship is for you. https://alpha.a16zspeedrun.com details: - $20K equity-free upfront to start building - up to $250K investment when you finalize - automatic final interview for a16z speedrun, with up to $1M investment - 8-week, in-person experience with a kickoff retreat, founder AMAs, and small-group dinners alongside the a16z speedrun community - targeted to early-career highly technical founders - deadline to apply is March 6 We ALSO have a "startup track" for the Alpha Fellowship where you can get more founder experience by working for a portfolio company if you're not quite ready to found something. The Alpha Fellowship places top early-career engineers into full-time roles at fast-growing a16z speedrun and Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies. For future founders, we provide capital before a team or idea even exists. We're looking for highly technical students and recent grads who don't want to wait to start building. Fellows take full-time roles at fast-growing portfolio companies - or, if you're ready to build now, receive capital to start your own company - kicking off with a two-month in-person fellowship. Fellows also have access to the a16z speedrun and EO Ventures communities and events. ... If this is you, want to meet you. If you have people to introduce us to, that would be amazing too. will have more to say, and lots of ideas coming up here. But excited to get this out! Excited to host y'all soon.