AI accelerators in California
35 programs. Terms, equity and the next deadline for each, checked against the official pages.
The terms
- Median check
- $100k
- Median equity
- 7%
- Open now
- 3
Open now
- Catalyst · San Francisco, US · $500k · — · 8 weeks · Rolling admissions
- Frontier Residency · San Francisco, US · — · — · — · Rolling admissions
- Hero House Venture Building Program · Glendale, US · — · — · 16 weeks · Rolling admissions
Rolling or opening later
- Accelerating Innovations to Market · San Diego, US · $60k · No equity · 12 months · Dates not published
- AGI Accelerator · US · $500k · — · — · Dates not published
- Cedars-Sinai Accelerator+ · Los Angeles, US · $100k · — · 13 weeks · Dates not published
- Founders, Inc. · San Francisco, US · $250k · 4–7% · — · Dates not published
- Innovate Bay Incubator · Fremont, US · $20k · — · 12 weeks · Dates not published
- 95th Percentile Accelerator · Menlo Park, US · — · — · 12 weeks · Dates not published
- AGI Compile Program · Hillsborough, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley Incubator · Berkeley, US · — · — · 10 weeks · Dates not published
- Bakar Climate Labs Pilot Program · Berkeley, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Canadian Technology Accelerator - Silicon Valley Agentic Enterprise AI · San Francisco, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Founder Sprint Studio · Venice, US · — · — · 8 weeks · Dates not published
- Generative AI Startup Acceleration · San Francisco, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Healthcare AI Advanced Program · San Francisco, US · — · — · 6 weeks · Dates not published
- Inception Studio Cohort Retreats · Silicon Valley, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Incubator · Berkeley, US · — · — · 17 weeks · Dates not published
- Innovate On The Lot · Burbank, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- LaunchPad SBDC · Newport Beach, US · — · — · — · Dates not published
- Learning Futures Summer Program · Stanford, US · — · — · 4 weeks · Dates not published
- Online Accelerator Program · Los Angeles, US · — · — · 12 weeks · Dates not published
- Raisable Robotics Track · San Francisco, US · — · — · 8 weeks · Dates not published
- Roseville AI Startup Accelerator · Roseville, US · — · — · 8 weeks · Dates not published
- Showcase · Los Angeles, US · — · — · 8 weeks · Dates not published
- SMUD Clean Tech AI Startup Accelerator · Sacramento, US · — · — · 8 weeks · Dates not published
- SoCal Consumer CommerceTech Accelerator in Glendale · Glendale, US · — · — · 6 weeks · Dates not published
- Ascend LA · Los Angeles, US · — · — · 17 weeks · Closed 1 Jun 2026
- The House AI Accelerator · Berkeley, US · — · 7–10% · 10 weeks · Closed 1 May 2026
- Enterprise Growth Residency · US · $100k · No equity · 12 months · Closed 31 Mar 2026
- Seedling AI · San Francisco, US · $500k · — · 12 weeks · Closed 31 Mar 2026
- ClawFund · San Francisco, US · $25k · 7% · 12 weeks · Closed 15 Mar 2026
- SE Ventures Accelerator Program · Menlo Park, US · $100k · — · 12 weeks · Closed 30 Jan 2026
- Elev X! Ignite · Palo Alto, US · $250k · — · — · Closed 11 Jan 2026
- Cybersecurity and Enterprise AI: Silicon Valley Canadian Technology Accelerator · Palo Alto, US · — · — · — · Closed 17 Dec 2025