MLH Accelerate — Empowering Founders in the Age of AI

Founders already get world-class support on GTM and fundraising. MLH fills the technical gap, so they can build what customers want to buy.

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Keep Pace

Keeping up with AI can feel impossible. We bring the latest insights from top-tier mentors and insiders at the companies building the tools founders depend on, delivered right inside your program, in a format founders get excited about.

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For Builders

Founders have the support they need to run their business. We make sure their tech stack, workflows, and product development get equal attention.

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The Modern Founder

Startups today look different. "Non-technical" CEOs build products and raise capital without a CTO. MLH is here for the historically underserved CTO and the solo CEO who needs to go from prototype to customer-ready production.

🚫 Not a Workshop

This is a shipping event. Founders leave with features in production and new tools in their belt — not slides in their inbox.

How It Works

Build Sprints

Nowadays, 4 hours is enough to ship core product work or master a new tool. Our "choose your own adventure" approach provides the structure to produce real results and the flexibility to meet each founder and their team where they are.

Elite Peer Mentors

MLH Mentors and tech partners are in the room and engaged. We share knowledge and advice through mentor office hours and give hands-on help to unblock founders' work, ensuring they ship something meaningful. Relationships built here are intended to extend well beyond the day.

Personalized Per Cohort

We do our homework before we show up. Using your existing materials (Look Book, etc) and an optional intake survey, we understand their stack, stage, and space. We build the session around what they actually need right now. No generic, irrelevant, or sponsor-required content.

Career-Long Connections 🤝

Benefits beyond the build. Founders can establish sustainable relationships with MLH Mentors and our tech partners. This means ongoing mentorship as they need it, plus an inside route to the companies whose tech powers their startups.

1 in 3

U.S. CS grads are MLH members

20%

of YC founders are MLH alumni

1M+

community members globally

Founder Impact

Trusted by a generation of builders.

AI Roadshow Series

2,300+

registrations

800

participants

400

turned away at the door (max capacity)

Our recent coast-to-coast "AI Roadshow" series demonstrates our appeal beyond university hackathons. Attendees — professional devs and students alike — left inspired and enthusiastic.

MLH started serving students 13 years ago. Today, our growing community represents the next generation of founders.

The people who first learned to ship fast at MLH hackathons are building tomorrow's startups.

Meet Your Mentors

People founders want in their corner.

MLH Mentors understand the startup journey and empathize with the founder experience, because we're founders ourselves. We show up with a give-first mindset and center everything around founders' needs.