Seldon Batch I

Program Structure

Duration: 13 Weeks (March 28th - June 27th, 2025)

Key Events

Kick-off Weekend: March 28th - 31st
Weekly Founder Dinners: Every Wednesday
Seldon x Apart Hackathon (🔗): April 18th - 20th
Seldon Retreat: June 12th - 15th
Demo Day: June 27th

Speaker Series: Seldon X AIS Founders

April 4th - tba, Silicon Valley veteran focusing on vision and ambition
May 16th - Designing secure corporate governance for AI safety companies
May 30th - Technical speaker addressing value alignment pre-fundraising

Program Phases

Whereas other programs can distract you from building your product with co-founder matching, wooing advisors, talking with investors, and more, our goal is to remove all superfluous steps and push you to iterate at an extreme speed to the most impactful and scalable startup company before demo day.

Weeks 1-3: Idea Validation
- Rigorous challenge and refinement of your existing work. We want to really understand what you are working on and get feedback from the actors that can say whether they're good ideas as quickly as possible.
Weeks 4-9: Building & Execution
- Focus on fast iteration on the most important work to reach a blitzscalable platform for all future work. We will encourage and push you to the strongest version of your idea and ensure you don't have to think about anything else during this time.
Weeks 9-12: Demo Day Preparation
- No investor discussions before Week 9. Don't get distracted. We'll make sure to surface your work to the right networks and prepare the conversations for you before the demo days begin.

Seldon Calendar