After the season · Paid · 3 months

The Fellowship

Build Season gets you to a working demo. The Fellowship is what turns that demo into something real — three months of funding and support to put your tool in front of the people it’s meant to help.

How you get in

You apply with what you built

There’s no cold application. Fellowship applications open right after the season’s Demo Day — and you apply with real evidence: your product progress, early traction, learnings, roadmap, and an updated demo. The strongest builders are selected. Selective by design, so the support is real.

What the Fellowship gives you

Three months of funding

Runway to work on your idea properly — not nights-and-weekends, but real focused time.

Hands-on mentorship

Work alongside people who’ve built and shipped, on both the tech and the business.

A path to real users

Deploy with NGO and impact partners who bring the problems — and the people — to the table.

A cohort

A small group of builders pushing on hard, meaningful problems at the same time as you.

What “done” looks like

By the end of the three months, the bar is simple: this is a real thing, ready for real users.

  • There are committed collaborators — people who want to keep building this together.
  • There’s a working product, not just a hackathon prototype.
  • There are real users, or a clear, credible path to them.
  • There’s a go-to-market — you know how this reaches the people it helps.

This is a social incubator: we back ideas that make the world better, whether they’re non-profit or a business. See how impact partnerships work →

It starts with the season

The road to the Fellowship runs through Build Season. Get on it.