The Mayfield AI Garage is a launchpad for AI founders, meeting them where
they are in their journey and providing them with resources and mentorship to
take their ideas to the next level.
Access to Industry-Leading AI Resources and Partners
Stipend of $25k per founding team member (up to $50k per team) to fuel your AI startup.
Gain insights and guidance from Mayfield’s investors.
Access support in talent matching, product-market fit, and story-market fit to help scale your startup.
Receive a minimum of $50K in compute credits and other benefits to power your AI development.
Get access to office space, workshops, mentorship, and all the benefits of SkyDeck’s Pad-13 incubator program.
Current Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students
Ideating or working on an AI project
Mayfield AI Garage is a hands-on program designed to help students turn their AI ideas into companies by providing capital, mentorship, compute credits, and other benefits. Over 6 transformative months, students will establish a strong foundation for building their companies through support from Mayfield, NVIDIA, Microsoft for Startups, and SkyDeck. We’re committed to helping passionate founders develop AI companies that can change the world.
We welcome all current UC Berkeley students to apply. Students may have an early-stage prototype or minimum viable product, or an AI project with initial customer interest. We will consider projects across all layers of the Mayfield CaaS stack.
The Mayfield AI Garage at Berkeley will run from May to November 2025.
Students who accept a spot are expected to work on their idea full time during the summer, and part-time in the fall (for those returning to school). Furthermore, students may not participate in any other paid or unpaid internship during the program. All members of each team are expected to contribute equally.
Stipend: $25K per team member, for a maximum of $50K per team.
Compute: $50K in compute credits per winning team (up to $350K) from Microsoft for Startups.
Become part of NVIDIA’s Inception program for startups (includes all benefits of program); mentorship from NVIDIA leader.
Become part of SkyDeck’s Pad-13 incubator program for startups. Includes office space, workshops, mentorship, and all other benefits of the program.
Geography: Must be based in the Bay Area.
Berkeley Affiliation: All team members must be current Berkeley students (undergrad, graduate, postdocs). Alumni are not eligible to apply.
We will be selecting three teams for the program.
There are no restrictions on team size; however, the stipend will be capped at $25K per person, for a maximum of $50K per team.
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