Maximize your potential.

Neo Scholars

Neo Residency

Seed Funding

Neo supports the next generation of founders and tech leaders with the industry's best startup residency, recruiting platform, and diverse mentorship community. Join us if you share our love of building.

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Neo has raised new funds from top tech leaders

We invest in people

We lead pre-seed and seed rounds and also fund teams through Neo Residency. Since 2017, we’ve funded 275 companies now valued at over $220 billion:

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Our “communal” VC funds are raised primarily from more than 100 industry leaders and tech veterans, with over $1 billion of total capital under management.

Pre-seed & seed funding:

Contact one of our team members (we prefer warm intros). We lead priced equity rounds or safes with our standard side letter.

Neo Scholars

Are you a college student who excels at CS? Follow in the footsteps of Neo Scholars who founded Cursor, Chai Discovery, Applied Compute, Flint, Cognition, and more.

Join a zoom conversation with Applied Compute co-founder Rhythm Garg about his experience as a Neo Scholar and journey from Stanford to OpenAI to unicorn founder.

Application deadline: Sunday June 14 11:59pm PT.

Maximize your potential as a future founder.

Aim higher and bet on yourself. We’ll mentor you, introduce you to amazing people, and fund anything you start.

Neo Residency: Build with us.

Get guaranteed admission to Neo Residency as a student team. Receive a $40k grant and SF workspace to build your own bold idea.

Expedite your job search.

Join an awesome startup with fast-tracked interviews, direct access to leadership, and 1:1 career advice at dozens of top startups.

Join tech's premier mentorship community.

Get support and help others. Build lifelong relationships.

Neo Residency

Funding on exceptional terms

Startups get $750K uncapped. We get participation rights in your next equity round up to 5% ownership. Students get $40K each. If your project becomes a company, we'd want to invest on the terms here.

We also give each founder/student a profit share in our fund.

SF work space & all-expenses-paid bootcamp

Work side-by-side for 3 months at our beautiful SF space. Maximize your productivity and build lasting relationships with founders and mentors at our intensive 2-week Oregon bootcamp.

Access to world-class mentors, tech leaders & VCs

Learn from fabled founders and seasoned operators. Meet industry leaders at intimate events and 1:1 sessions. End the program with a Demo Day and bespoke VC intros.

OpenAI & Microsoft perks, community, & more

Join a supportive community of tech veterans and founders. Redeem curated deals & discounts and save on essential tools. Access our recruiting platform, of vetted candidates.

Startups get $450K+ of Azure, AWS, OpenAI, & more.

Students get $100K+ of Azure, AWS, OpenAI, & more.

True love is... enabling another to achieve their full potential.