Radical Velocity

AI Founders
Masterclass

Built for those Building AI.

The Radical AI Founders Masterclass brings together world-leading AI pioneers, successful entrepreneurs, and leaders from the top AI companies — to help you turn your ideas into something real.

Participants join a lasting community of peers from Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, and premier AI institutes including Vector, Mila, and the Allen Institute for AI.

October 2026  ·  Every Wed & Thu  ·  1 PM PT | 4 PM ET  ·  Virtual & Free

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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta · Turing Award Winner
Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez
Co-Founder & CEO, Cohere
Anna Goldie
Anna Goldie
Co-Founder, Liquid AI · Former Google DeepMind
Colin Murdoch
Colin Murdoch
Senior Advisor, Radical Ventures
Ray Reddy
Ray Reddy
Co-Founder & CEO, Maple
Dean Leitersdorf
Dean Leitersdorf
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 10D
And more
Full speaker lineup announced soon.

What to expect.

Pioneer Sessions

Conversations at the frontier

Live sessions with Turing Award winners, Nobel laureates, and the founders shaping modern AI — moderated for depth, not polish.

Founder Tactics

From lab to company

Practical sessions on AI product development, go-to-market, fundraising, team building, and the company-building fundamentals researchers rarely learn in academia.

Community

A network that compounds

Connect with 2,000+ AI researchers and founders from the world's top universities and research institutes. The relationships built here last beyond the program.

Compute Cohort

We offer Masterclass participants the opportunity to apply for our exclusive Compute Cohort Program, with a select group chosen through a competitive process. This is a meaningful way for the most promising AI startups to access substantial resources for product development and scaling.

This premier initiative provides:

  • Up to $350,000 in Google Cloud compute credits for computing infrastructure, storage, AI platform tools, and data tools
  • Complimentary incorporation support and legal office hours with our legal partners Fenwick (US) and [TBD on Canadian firm name] (Canada)
  • State-of-the-art computing resources including dedicated H100 GPU and TPU infrastructure
  • Mentorship from industry experts
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
Turing Award Winner · Nobel Prize in Physics
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li
Co-Founder, World Labs · Stanford University
Raquel Urtasun
Raquel Urtasun
Founder & CEO, Waabi
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder, Databricks & Anyscale
Jim Fan
Jim Fan
Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA

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Designed for researchers and technical founders. Sessions are virtual and free. Applications for October 2026 are open now.

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