Radical Velocity

AI Founders
Masterclass

Built for those Building AI.

The Radical AI Founders Masterclass is a four-week program that brings together world-leading AI pioneers, successful entrepreneurs, and leaders from top AI companies to share their entrepreneurial journeys, and the specific challenges they’ve faced, to give AI researchers, students and technical founders the insights to help navigate their own path to building an AI startup.

Participants join a lasting community of peers from Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, and premier AI institutes including Vector, Mila, and the Allen Institute for AI.

October 2026 · Every Wed & Thu · 1 PM PT | 4 PM ET · Virtual & Free

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2026 Speakers

Yann LeCun

AMI Labs; Ex-Chief AI Scientist, Meta; Turing Award Winner

Aidan Gomez

Co-Founder & CEO, Cohere

Anna Goldie

Co-Founder & CEO, Ricursive Intelligence

Colin Murdoch

Strategic Advisor to Isomorphic Labs & Google DeepMind; Senior Advisor, Radical Ventures

Ray Reddy

VP Product, Shopify; Founder, Stealth Co.

Dean Leitersdorf

Co-Founder & CEO, Decart

And more

Full speaker lineup announced soon.

Compute

Compute Cohort

We offer Masterclass participants the opportunity to apply for our exclusive Compute Cohort Program, with a select group chosen through a competitive process. This is a meaningful way for the most promising AI startups to access substantial resources for product development and scaling.

This premier initiative provides:

Up to $350,000 in Google Cloud compute credits over your first two years in the Google for Startups Cloud Program
State-of-the-art computing resources including dedicated H100 GPU and TPU infrastructure

Complimentary incorporation support and legal office hours with our legal partners
Mentorship from industry experts

Partners

Program Format

What to expect.

Pioneer Sessions

Conversations at the frontier

Live sessions with Turing Award winners, Nobel laureates, and the founders shaping modern AI — moderated for depth, not polish.

Founder Tactics

From lab to company

Practical sessions on AI product development, go-to-market, fundraising, team building, and the company-building fundamentals researchers rarely learn in academia.

Community

A network that compounds

Connect with 2,000+ AI researchers and founders from the world's top universities and research institutes. The relationships built here last beyond the program.

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