GitHub Accelerator
Startup accelerator · run by GitHub · online · Global
For maintainers of open-source projects: a sponsorship-funded programme on turning a widely used project into something that sustains its authors.
Apply on the programme's own siteGitHub Accelerator terms
Read from the programme's own page on September 13, 2026, and re-read every morning. A figure nobody states is left empty rather than estimated.
- Funding
- $40,000
“$40,000 per project in non-dilutive funding” check it
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