Investor board
Both sides of the table. Founders: find the mandate that matches what you are building, then send the project through the review. Investors: post what you are looking for and we route matching submissions to you.
Artificial intelligence
Inference-layer companies with a defensible cost-per-completed-task curve. Prefers teams shipping into production workloads over model labs.
Artificial intelligence
Applied AI in regulated industries — claims, underwriting, clinical documentation. Wants signed pilots, not letters of intent.
Crypto & onchain finance
Payment rails and settlement infrastructure with real corridor volume. Will look at token structures but leads equity.
Crypto & onchain finance
Projects that clear manual review. On a pass, the foundation buys a portion of the token with its own capital. Submit through the review page.
Robotics & embodiment
Robotics with a payback period under 24 months on a real customer line. Hardware-heavy welcome; demos without a paying floor are not.
Energy & compute
Grid interconnect, storage and datacentre power. Comfortable with project finance structures alongside equity.
Bio & health systems
Tools and platforms that cut trial cost per enrolled patient. Wants a decomposed budget, not a TAM slide.
Defense & resilience
Dual-use systems with a credible path from prototype to programme of record. Founders must be able to hold a clearance.
Frontier software
Developer tooling and infrastructure with bottom-up adoption. Looks at weekly active teams before revenue.
Frontier software
Operator angels who co-invest in small rounds and open doors. Fast decisions, small cheques, hands-on.
Mandates posted directly by funds, syndicates and angels, shown once the desk has checked them.
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The programmes that will fund a team before a round exists — including a16z Speedrun and YC. Applications go directly to them; we just point the way.
a16z's accelerator for games, AI and adjacent tech. Standard offer is a $1M cheque into a 12-week programme, run in batches with open applications.
Apply ↗The default first stop. Three-month batch, standard deal, demo day in front of most active seed investors. Applications run on a rolling batch cycle.
Apply ↗Mentor-driven accelerators across many cities and verticals. Useful when you need a local network more than a Bay Area one.
Apply ↗Backs individuals before companies exist and helps form the founding team. Good fit for technical founders without a cofounder.
Apply ↗Day-zero programme across dozens of cities, with an investment decision at the end of the cohort.
Apply ↗Crypto-native accelerator for onchain founders, with a heavy focus on distribution and shipping.
Apply ↗Hackathons and an accelerator for teams building on Solana, with follow-on funding for winners.
Apply ↗YC-alumni collective funding early crypto founders, with a fellowship track for pre-seed teams.
Apply ↗Programme terms and batch dates change — check each site before applying. VC18z is not affiliated with any of them.
Mandates are maintained by the desk and change often. A listing is not a commitment to invest, and nothing here is investment advice.
