🚀 Applications Open: Berkeley Xcelerator for Pre-Seed & Seed AI Startups

Hey Product Hunt community 👋

Applications are now open for the Berkeley Xcelerator, a non-dilutive accelerator for pre-seed and seed-stage startups building at the frontier of AI.

What makes it different:

🧠 Built with Berkeley RDI’s frontier AI research ecosystem

☁️ Cloud, GPU & API credits through industry partners (Google Cloud, DeepMind, OpenAI, Nebius, and more to be announced)

🌍 Visibility across the Berkeley ecosystem and a global community of 56,000+ developers and builders

🎤 Demo Day at the Agentic AI Summit 2026 (Aug 1–2 @ UC Berkeley), bringing together investors, researchers, and industry leaders

🚀 Open globally — no Berkeley affiliation required.

If you’re building something in AI and looking for a program that supports technical teams without taking equity, applications are open now:

👉 https://forms.gle/KjHiLAHstAvfHdBf7

📅 Applications close on 2/28!