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 site

GitHub 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

An accelerator is one door. There are 10,471 others.

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