The Vercel AI Accelerator is back, and this year we selected 39 early-stage teams from across the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to build with us for six weeks.
The next generation of AI startups is building on our self-driving infrastructure, and the accelerator is how we work directly with the earliest-stage founders among them. This year’s cohort spans every industry, at varying points in their journey, but they share a clear point of view on what needs to exist right now and the urgency to ship it.
Teams in the program get access to Vercel infrastructure, $8M+ in partner credits (AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, and more), weekly sessions with founders and technical leaders, and dedicated VC mentors.
Link to headingMeet the 2026 cohort
Alloy — Founder: Joe Harris
Alloy Robotics turns terabytes of robot data into instant debugging, analysis, and reporting.
Archival — Founders: Pablo Diaz-Granados, Jay Katyan, Griffin Ogura
Archival reveals how teams are actually using AI. With workflow-level visibility and analytics, leaders can improve AI adoption and ROI.
Ares — Founder: Tony Hunter
Ares is a revenue command center, a single surface to find, engage, close, and grow revenue, powered by agents that work across your customer data.
Blueprints AI — Founders: Al Dram, Coco Cao
Blueprints AI is an autonomous AI agent that generates construction blueprints.
Carbyn AI — Founders: Jungkeun Hong (CEO), Tim Phuan (CTO)
Carbyn AI is Claude Code for machinists, with AI glasses that capture tribal knowledge and coach operators in real time.
Cloudglue — Founders: Amy Xiao, Kevin Dela Rosa
Cloudglue is the context layer for video, enabling users, AI agents, and applications to understand and work across video at scale.
CodeYam — Founders: Nadia Eldeib, Jared Cosulich
CodeYam introduces simulations to create a powerful AI-native software development experience.
Coreviz — Founder: Wassim Gharbi
An AI-native media workspace that understands, organizes, and edits your organization's photos and videos with AI.
Grid58 — Founders: Mani HK, Sures Kumar TS
Grid58 is the operating system for making software, enabling you to understand what to build, research, design, and code.
Hacktron AI — Founders: Zayne Zhang, Mohan Pedhapati, Harsh Jaiswal
Hacktron is your AI teammate for security. As AI accelerates the volume of code being written, vulnerabilities scale with it. Hacktron integrates into your development lifecycle to find and remediate real, exploitable issues.
HiveBase — Founders: Nick Bae, Tim Tong
Plug in your tools, get an AI Chief of Staff, a living company brain, and agents that run your code, marketing, GTM, and strategy.
Hotfix — Founders: Sam Forrester, Evan Eissler, Jack Neil
Hotfix is an AI production operator that connects to your codebase and cloud infrastructure to fix issues as they happen.
Integrated Reasoning — Founder: David Cox
Integrated Reasoning is building ARROW, the world's first wafer-scale solver for mixed integer linear programming.
Judea — Founder: Maggie Chen
Judea is an autonomous agent that continuously optimizes your product on autopilot. Simply define your target metric, and Judea handles the rest.
Kinect — Founders: Kratik Agrawal, Varun Kandula
Kinect is building dynamic storefronts for human and agent customers, an intelligent AI brand layer that adapts to each visitor.
Kuvia — Founders: Martina Belluomini, Ana Gorodisch
Kuvia develops AI for digital pathology to detect cancer biomarkers and expand access to precision cancer care.
Lane — Founders: Jack Clark, Jorge Armenta
Lane is payments and commerce infrastructure for the agentic web, giving AI agents the ability to buy on your behalf and sellers a way to reach them.
Mighty — Founders: Johnny Hung, Munam Wasi
Mighty stops AI-powered fraud before it happens. The security gateway protects AI agents across text, images, and documents in real time.
Milq — Founders: Juan Djuwadi, Neel Makhecha
Milq is Lovable for iOS — a delightful Mac app for building Swift applications.
Niyam AI — Founders: Samarth Shyam, Agrim Singh
Niyam AI is building the control plane for hardware manufacturing.
Nura — Founder: Usman Ahmed
Nura is the AI copilot for real estate development, automating zoning, feasibility, and pro forma analysis.
OpenVet — Founder: Adam Sager
OpenVet is an AI hospital for every animal on earth, advancing veterinary medicine with the first outcome-based biological dataset across all species.
Orchestra Research — Founders: Zechen Zhang, Amber Jiachen Liu
Orchestra Research is building the Jarvis for Science and democratizing science for everyone.
Pai — Founders: Gigi Grimes, Everhett Grimes
Pai builds digital twins of your real customers so you can test products, ads, and messaging in minutes.
Partly — Founders: Shivani Bajaj, Shantanu Prakash
Partly is building the data intelligence layer for agent-assisted hardware commerce.
Penelope Health — Founders: Sohum Patel, Mattijs De Paepe
Penelope is the API and MCP layer for US medical payments — building the largest corpus of payer policies to reduce medical claim denials.
ProxieLabs — Founders: Alex Junod, Cristian Besliu
ProxieLabs replaces slow, expensive market research with AI-powered conjoint analysis, delivering validated consumer preference data in minutes.
Rex — Founders: Merlin Kafka, Lewis Blackwood
Rex is an AI platform for operational finance work. Rex unifies customer context across finance systems so agents can run AR processes end to end.
Roots — Founders: Lauren Self, David Golovin
Roots offers the easiest way to buy and sell homes. Buyers save $100s to $1000s monthly, while sellers net $1000s more at closing.
Sentia Labs — Founders: Akshay Murthy, Sarthak Gupta
Behavioral Intelligence Layer for Product Teams
Smithery — Founders: Henry Mao, Anirudh Kamath
Smithery is building the connectivity infrastructure to enable the agent economy.
Takeoff — Founder: Brad Bitler
Takeoff is an AI travel platform that helps consumers plan better trips and helps hotels and travel brands reach them at the moment of discovery.
Truli — Founders: Catherine Zhou, Michael Wu
Truli builds AI agents that help food, supplement, and beverage brands stay compliant.
Vakoi AI — Founders: Ao Fu, Gagan Devagiri
Vakoi AI delivers customized immersive ads in video games at scale.
Zomma — Founders: Jihyun Kim, Cashel Fitzgerald
Zomma is a computer-use agent that handles sales and application support for enterprise: 24/7, global, and grounded in your SOPs
Some of our participants are building in stealth, so not all of them are listed here. Join us on Demo Day to see what they've built and share your feedback.
Link to headingWhat's next for the cohort
On March 18th, we're bringing the cohort together with the entire Vercel ecosystem for Builder Day at our new San Francisco headquarters. The day will include a fireside chat with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO) and Stephen Haney (Paper CEO), as well as office hours with our accelerator partners.
From there, teams will have four weeks to refine and ship, leading up to Demo Day on April 16th in San Francisco. Each team will present what they've built to AI leaders, VCs, and builders, and judges will select three winners to receive over $100K in credits and prizes from Vercel and our partners, including an investment from Vercel Ventures for the first-place team.
Past accelerator teams like Stably AI, Cervo, and Bear AI have gone on to raise venture rounds, land enterprise customers, and form partnerships through the program. Follow along as this year's cohort builds over the next six weeks.
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