Eight weeks to get ready.
Pre-Launch is the winter 2027 cohort: a weekly meeting for founders preparing for the Launch competition and for incubator applications in summer 2027.
What a week is.
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A weekly meeting
Eight weeks, one meeting a week. The cohort is the room you show up to, not a set of videos.
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Speakers and guests
Each week brings someone who has built, funded, or run the kind of thing you are aiming at.
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A roundtable
The rest of the meeting is the cohort. You put the venture on the table and the other founders push on it.
What you are getting ready for.
The Launch competition
Spring is when ventures with a working product and customer evidence compete for the prize pool. The cohort is the stretch that gets a team ready to be in that room.
Launch competition →Summer 2027 incubators
The same eight weeks are for the application you will write for a summer incubator — what you have built, who has used it, and why this team.
Who is in the room.
Concept finalists are put forward automatically. Pre-Launch applications are automatic; cohort admission is not guaranteed.
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