Apollo AI Stanford Accelerator | Founders & Builders Meetup

Meet the teams behind Apollo, connect with AI founders, and discover what’s next. Join 0G and xBuilders for an exclusive meetup bringing together AI founders, builders, investors, and members of the Apollo AI Accelerator community. This is an opportunity to meet the teams behind the $20M Apollo AI Accelerator, connect with graduating startups from Cohort 1, and learn more about what’s ahead for Cohort 2. Whether you’re building an AI startup, exploring the ecosystem, or looking to connect with other founders and industry leaders, we’d love to meet you! 🚀 What to Expect Meet the 0G & xBuilders Teams: Connect with the people behind Apollo and learn how we’re supporting the next generation of AI startups. Connect with Cohort 1 Graduates: Meet founders from Apollo’s inaugural cohort, hear about what they’re building, and learn about their accelerator experience. Explore Apollo Cohort 2: Learn about the up to $20M accelerator program, including investment opportunities, mentorship, technical support, and access to industry experts. Network with AI Founders & Builders: Meet fellow founders, investors, developers, and members of the broader AI ecosystem. 🌟 About the Apollo AI Accelerator Powered by 0G, the trust layer for AI, and xBuilders, a team of Stanford veterans with experience running accelerator programs for Google for Startups and StartX, Apollo supports promising AI startups through funding, mentorship, and technical resources. Cohort 1 selected 10 teams from more than 220 applications, with graduates attracting over 100 introduction requests from investors, enterprises, and partners following Demo Day. Now, Apollo is preparing to welcome its next cohort of AI innovators. 🚀 Building the Future of AI? Applications for Apollo Cohort 2 are open until November 11, 2026. Apply here: apollo.0g.ai/apply Come meet the community, make meaningful connections, and discover what we’re building together! About 0G 0G is the trust layer for AI and a frontier AI lab. It trains its own foundation models, including the 0GM series, and builds the harness, safety, and verification layers around them. Its stack combines these with private compute and encrypted storage, designed to enable AI work, from inference to agent actions, to be verified and audited. Learn more at 0g.ai. About xBuilders xBuilders is comprised of veteran founders, operators, and investors from Google, Salesforce, Capital One, and Coinbase, who have extensive experience running accelerators across AI, Fintech, and Blockchain. The team teaches the MS&E447 AI Sovereignty & Entrepreneurship course at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, runs the Stanford Openlab Open Source AI Seminar, and has run the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator for the last 5 years, helping 85+ projects collectively raise over $1B from leading funds with multiple unicorn successes. The xBuilders team has also run AI accelerators for Cornell/IC3, and has extensive experience building and operating the Google for Startups accelerator program for dozens of cohorts across AI, innovation, and software technologies. Accelerator programming is based on Stanford University’s startup methodologies and courses, and the extensive experience of the team as founders, operators, and investors running accelerators for SBA, Google for Startups, StartX, and Cardinal Ventures.