How @join_ef now works: 1. We find you in Europe, India or the US. 2. We select you based on your founder potential. 3. You join one of our programmes in London, Paris, Bangalore or SF. 4. If not already in SF, we help you re-locate to San Francisco to raise your seed round

T-5 days until your one-way ticket to SF - $250K first check (+ < $5M in follow) - $600K in credits to move at warp speed - 50 founders (global 0.001%) - 8 weeks - 1 house - San Francisco - covering visa, flights, stay w/private chef - everyone can apply glhf 🛸

YC is completely useless if you don't already have a cofounder i did this accelerator in sf. it is completely different from other accelerators because you can come without an idea and without a cofounder. for me it radically changed my life as an entrepreneur. i had the idea, an MVP, but no technical skills, no cofounder, i was a lawyer before. so i: - met my cofounder xtelegram - went to sf for the first time, all paid - met friends, incredible founders, incredible advisors - 1000X my ambition special thanks to @juliadenoly @GittardAurelien @vio_bme @antoineduchein @Alicebentinck (Isa and Mike idk your @)

Back in 2017, six months into working at @join_ef, I sat down with the team to watch @Open_Cosmos launch their first satellite into space. I thought it was the coolest thing ever... Turns out I was wrong...what's a lot cooler is a full constellation of satellites, $370m in signed contracts and a fresh $346m in funding Huge congratulations @RafelJorda and the whole Open Cosmos team Ad astra 🚀

This means so much ❤️ The best part of what I do is the founders that I get to work with and getting to be a tiny part of their enormous journeys. @RafelJorda it has been such a pleasure to work with you - congrats on the $348m of fresh funding for @Open_Cosmos!

I made a list of great startups to join. It's called the Breakout List. The list has 92 companies. These are the 20 with 25 or fewer employees: - Hone (@moritz_stephan, @CarloWillem, @oqbrady) - Normal (@ansonyuu, @hudzah) - Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey) - Tacit Labs (@ninklefitz, @AmDroste) - American Terawatt (@atroyn, @rslparker, @aranibatta) - Conduit (@clemvonstengel, @riopopper) - Convergent (Omkar Savant, Vivek Katara, @debnilsur) - Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_arohan_) - Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @realJessyLin) - Instinct (@noahrshinn) - Keenable (@styskin, Matthias Petri) - Lumaril (Mark Elliot, Ben Duffield) - Neion Bio (@Dimkell, Sam Levin) - Pangram Labs (@max_spero_, @bradley_emi) - Quadrillion (@echinaceous) - Re (@karnsaroya, @AnandDhillon, @thecliffwhite, @benaneesh) - Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh) - Sail Research (@neilmovva, @blintzbase) - Trajectory (@rronak_, @michaelelabd, @QuantumArjun) - Watney Robotics (Sean Cheong, Ryan Gannon) Picks from Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Rabois, Mike Vernal, Alana Goyal, Sonya Huang, Ramtin Naimi, Marc Bhargava, Cory Levy, Aashay Sanghvi, Konstantine Buhler, John Luttig, Varun Gupta, Ray Tonsing and Avichal Garg. Disclosure: I'm a small investor in American Terawatt, Convergent, Standard Intelligence and Trajectory (in this post), and in Factory, Physical Intelligence and SF Compute (elsewhere on the list). I didn't vote. The full list is on Breakout List.

“Why we put founders in coffins to increase productivity" A glimpse inside @jointhebridge’s founder residency in SF 😂 @thankyoulennart for the write-up!

Congrats guys!

Building something generational? This winter: $250K - first check 50 founders - top global 0.001% One house in SF - you’ll live in it W27 applications are open (link below) Rest is on you - go! 🛸

Great work from @Macroscope @kayvz @Rob_Bishop

A huge congratulations to @matthewclifford on his new role. Matt is one of the most talented operators and investors out there and Anthropic are insanely lucky to have him join.

Questions founders have actually been asked by SF seed investors: “What animal would you use to describe your co-founder?” “What is your dating life like in SF?” “What’s your relationship like with your father?” “How will you hire in the US as an outsider? What networks do you actually have?” “How much of your revenue is from the US?” "That’s market size number doesn’t mean anything. Walk me through the bottom up maths of what the real market size is." “What’s an ugly truth about your product that users would tell me?” “What was the most recent argument you had with your co-founder?” “Tell me about the last customer who didn’t buy. Why not?” “If this market is so big, why hasn’t FAANG already won it?” “We hear this idea every week. What’s your secret?” “Why is now the moment to build this company?” “Is that MRR or ARR? Contracted or deployed?” via @Alicebentinck's substack.

Introducing opencomputer.dev Deploy your agent as a function. Get a computer for it. - a real Linux machine per session - ffmpeg, chromium, git, install anything - durable: hibernate + resume - your keys never enter the runtime The cloud of the last decade was built for apps. The next one is for trillions of always on agents. @opencomputerhq is their home.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗔 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗔. 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬. Entrepreneurs First just opened applications for their SF residency for non-US founders at stage 0. Pre-idea. Pre-team. Just starting. > $250K upfront + help closing your round > Live in SF + build with peers + raise from Sequoia, Founders Fund, Benchmark, Index > Built by EF: $16B + portfolio • Cleo • Aztec • Gensyn • PolyAI Backed by: Collisons, Demis Hassabis, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Nat Friedman, Mustafa Suleyman. If you're outside the US and ready to start something massive... this is your entry point. @jointhebridge apply: join-thebridge.com/

The company doesn’t exist yet. We invest anyway. No idea. No cofounder. No certainty on what they’ll build. We back the individual. Grit. Determination. Ambition. The kind of person who will keep going through blockers and find a way to make things happen. That’s the bet we made on Jana and Sam before they came together to build Upside Robotics.

One of the biggest seed rounds in UK history. LETS GO

Callosum is one of the most ambitious companies I’ve worked with at @join_ef - incredible to see them raise $100m just a year after demo day. Testament to the scale of their opportunity and the speed of their execution - amazing work @achterbrain and @DanAkarca!

Proud to have @CallosumAI as part of the @join_ef family. Great job @DanAkarca and @achterbrain!

5 programs for founders still accepting applications. 1) The Bridge Residency | by @jointhebridge - $250K in investment - Flights, housing, food, and visa fully covered - Support with closing your next round - Application deadline: August 30 - Apply here: apply.joinef.com/app/san-fra… 2) Accelerator for Solo Founders | by @solofounders - $100K in investment - Weekly 1:1s with @julianweisser - $800K+ in perks from top providers - Application deadline: September 2026 - Apply here: solofounders.com/program 3) Accelerator for pre-seed companies | by @pearvc - Up to $2M in investment - $1M+ in credits from top providers - 1:1 mentorship sessions - Application deadline: October 4 - Apply here: pear.vc/pearx-application/ 4) R[3]sidency Accelerator | by @fabric_vc - $300K in investment - $100K+ in credits & ecosystem perks - Demo Day + NYC investor roadshow - Application deadline: September 4 - Apply here: r3sidency.fabric.vc/#NewForm… 5) The Founders Track | by @residencyBLR - Free Housing + Meals + Workspace - Demo Day with top VCs - Fast-track to @theresidency - Program starts: September 7 - Apply here: residencyblr.com/apply/found… I’ve personally applied to 4/5 programs with @NOMADZxyz. Which one would you most like to get accepted into?

I ditched the Waymo. Instead, I drove around San Francisco in @omar43218992's convertible to hear about his experience at @jointhebridge, with his new cofounder Louis (and the indominatable @_mikepphillips). Omar and Louis spent 8 weeks living with 55 exceptional founders, and their sense of what’s possible started to change. A hacker house. A private chef. And a total focus on building, learning and pushing each other to greatness. It's a great example of how your environment (both the house and SF) sets your ambition. Full conversation in the first comment.

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