SF Bay Area — where to go

Member/guest access to fireside chats, talks, and founder demo nights (separate from SPC's investing fund)

Curated AI hackathons and builder meetups across SF partner venues (Shack15, Notion HQ, etc.)

Month-long popup-village pass to live/build alongside 500+ founders, researchers, and creators

Curated small-scale showcase connecting standout engineers with founders

Citizenship membership: access to 16-floor frontier-tech vertical village with 3+ daily events, hackathons, demo nights

Access to invite-based AI hackathons, demo nights, researcher socials (up to 5 events/week)

Free, open-access hackerspace with tools, 3D printers, and workshops; no membership required

Weekly co-working sessions and annual Symposium for passion-project builders and intellectually curious community

Oldest SF hacker house (10+ yrs); live-in community of twenty-something founders, no formal manager/operator

"Fourth place" membership space in Hayes Valley for salons, talks, workshops, and member-led events

Members' club atop the Ferry Building with workspace, daily fireside chats/workshops, hackathon venue access

3-month industry-vertical program: mentor workshops, corporate dealflow intros, Summit pitch access, no equity required

Nonprofit, zero-equity Stanford-affiliated accelerator with mentorship and investor Demo Day access

3-month zero-equity accelerator with Lean Launchpad curriculum and investor Demo Day

6-month cohort program with $200K SAFE investment, mentorship, and UC Berkeley network access

24/7 nonprofit coworking hackerspace with monthly membership and regular community meetups

No-cost, no-equity deep-tech accelerator with mentorship and access to UC Berkeley research facilities

Free 7-week online startup course from YC partners; top builders flown to SF for a 2-day in-person event

3-month program with Startup Enterprise Plan, VC introductions/mentorship, bootcamps, Virtual Demo Day

Free program with cloud/DGX credits, preferred GPU pricing, technical training; 40,000+ member network

API credits ($2.5K-$25K+ via partners) plus Grove cohort ($50K credits, mentorship, in-person SF sessions)

$1K-$200K in AWS credits across 200+ services including AI tools

$25K-$100K+ in Claude API credits

Up to $350K in Google Cloud credits, Gemini/AI ecosystem access, dedicated startup support

Up to $150K Azure credits, GitHub Enterprise, M365, OpenAI/Azure AI service access — no funding required

$2.5K Stripe product credits plus $50K+ partner discounts (AWS, Mercury, Carta)

$10K-$100K grants plus compute/office space access in San Francisco; monthly rolling deadlines

$25K-$100K rapid grants for early-stage research at the intersection of AI and health

Non-dilutive Phase I/II federal grants (~$275K-$1M+) for deep-tech R&D

Up to $100K equity-free funding for independent researchers, builders, and creatives

$250K grant over 2 years for founders 22 or under to skip/leave college and build full-time

12-18 month fully-funded residency ($125K-$250K salary + up to $1.5M project budget) for AI/neuro/life-sciences builders

$150K Concept Award followed by $450K Prototype Award for early-stage CA clean-energy entrepreneurs

$1K no-strings cash grants for students/early-career builders on independent research or tech projects

$1K-$100K+ rolling grants for "zero to one" ideas, fast 2-3 week response