• Applications open: Monday February 26
• Applications close: Monday March 25 at 12:00 noon Eastern
• Interview period: beginning of April
  • (if needed; not all teams are interviewed and being asked for an interview has no impact on a team’s acceptance status or likelihood)
• Teams notified: no later than Monday April 15
• First Day: Monday June 3
• Demo Day: early September (historically the first Friday after Labor Day at Kresge Auditorium, tentatively September 6, 2024)
• Optional Fundraising Month: During September & October, teams may apply to continue in delta v for our fundraising track, ending in additional, by-invitation-only Investor Days held in New York City and Northern California in October

Eligibility

• Teams must contain at least two members and no more than five members.
  • All team members should be founders or founder-level (don’t list interns or others who are not committed to becoming full-time entrepreneurs through this project).
• At least one team member must be a current student in an MIT degree-granting program as of February of the year of the program.
• A post-doc will be counted as an MIT student for the purpose of participating in delta v.
• For this application process, MIT students who graduate in February or June of the current year are considered current MIT students.
• Traditionally, teams must commit to working full time in the MIT delta v office space in the Martin Trust Center or the MIT delta v NYC offices in New York City for the duration of the summer and present at Demo Day events in September.
• Teams must have demonstrable experience and understanding of the entrepreneurial process and must demonstrate familiarity with common frameworks including disciplined entrepreneurship, lean startup, business model canvas, and the like.
• Teams CANNOT simultaneously take part in MIT delta v and any other accelerator or incubator program.
  • Teams must be working full-time on their venture.
• Past participants in the MIT delta v accelerator (under its current or past names) are not eligible to apply.
  • Team members from past years may apply if they are working on a new venture.
• Teams must disclose in their application all sources of funding that the team has received.
  • Teams agree to suspend all fundraising activities until after Demo Day in September.
• There are no restrictions on whether a team has funding going into MIT delta v, however, be advised that we are looking for teams that can significantly gain from the program; we’re not just taking the teams that are the closest to being full-fledged companies.

Application Instructions

Applications opened on February 26 and will close on Monday, March 25 at 12:00 noon Eastern.

• Applicants shall fill out an on-line application form in which they will outline details about:
  • their idea
  • the problem they are trying to solve
  • how they were inspired to solve this problem
  • their proposed solution
  • how they believe this solution might support a sustainable, stand-alone business
• We will ask for information about each individual co-founder who will be applying to the program.
• Applicants must also upload a one-minute video to YouTube, Vimeo, or a sharable cloud-based link.
  • This 60-second video should contain two elements:
    • Team – who you are, what you do, why you’re on the founding team (each member should be included in the clip if possible)
    • Idea – provide an elevator pitch about the problem you are trying to solve, your proposed solution, and why you feel passionate about this

Deliberation Process

• The applications will be reviewed by members of the Trust Center team and Managing Directors of the delta v program.
• A subset of teams may be invited to interview with us during our review phase in early April.
  • Whether or not we request an interview with your team has no bearing on your eventual acceptance status.
• Teams will be notified of their acceptance status no later than mid-April.