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MIT delta v accelerator (Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship)

MIT delta v

Status

Usually opens in February and April

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$75,000

GIVEN: USD 75,000 equity-free funding per accepted team, plus a full-time summer programme, workspace at MIT and mentorship, culminating in Demo Day. TAKEN: nothing - the funding is explicitly equity-free and MIT takes no stake through delta v.

You must co-fund 0%.

Funder

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

private · national

Deadline: One call a year — Annual summer cohort. The 2026 application deadline was Wednesday 1 April 2026 at 5:00pm Eastern; applications are now closed.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

MIT-affiliated founding teams. Requires a demo-able prototype, a full-time commitment for the summer, and an intention to go to market by the end of the programme.

How to apply

  1. Confirm at least one founder is a current MIT student or recent alum meeting the Trust Center's affiliation rule
  2. Build a demo-able prototype and gather early customer signals
  3. Submit the online application by the early-April deadline
  4. Interviews and selection
  5. Full-time summer programme in Cambridge, MA ending with Demo Day

What you will need

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/accelerator/apply/

"$75K equity-free funding"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: entrepreneurship.mit.edu

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