Incubator Week
Most accelerators take 12 weeks and 7%. We take 5 days and 0%. Fly to London to turn your AI safety idea into a funded org. $50k if your pitch lands. More for the strongest teams. Equity-free.
Cohort
v5
Runs
July 20–25
Funding
$50k equity-free
Covered
All expenses paid
Track record
Past cohorts: 23 participants, 11 companies founded, 7 still going, $1M+ raised.
Alumni include:
- Exona Lab: quantifying AI risk for the Lloyd's insurance market; Lloyd's Lab Cohort 16, paper with Bengio, Reuters feature
- 0Labs: AI purple teaming — adversarial agents that expose detection gaps before attackers do
- Telluvian: mechanistic interpretability for high-stakes AI; FR8 incubator
- Jacob Arbeid: quit AISI; raised from Manifund for an automated evals lab (stealth)
- Shay Yahal: enterprise AI safety (stealth); paying customers, Redwood Research partnership
- Zac Saber: dropped out of EF; building long-horizon evals (stealth)
Plus career transition grants and placements at Andon Labs, ASET, and BlueDot.
The week
- Monday
Threat models
Develop threat models and identify the top experts in your problem space.
- Tue – Wed
Build interventions
Build and test interventions, call experts, and pressure-test your assumptions with the cohort.
- Thursday
Pitch prep
Sharpen the story and create your pitch.
- Friday
Pitch for funding
Pitch to us. If we back your pitch, we will give you $50k equity-free by the end of the week.
About you
- Technically serious
- Working in or adjacent to AI safety, biosecurity, cyber, or other catastrophic-risk fields
- Ready to leave whatever you're doing now to build
- You don't need a polished idea - we will help you find one here
Know someone who should be there? Refer them here, and we'll send you $2,000 for each person accepted after your referral.
About BlueDot
BlueDot Impact is a nonprofit based in London and San Francisco, building the workforce and organisations needed to safely navigate AGI. We've raised over $35M and trained over 8,000 people since 2022.
For questions, reach out to joshua@bluedot.org.