Halcyon EquityTech Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: November 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Halcyon EquityTech Fellowship 2026. The EquityTech Fellowship will serve founders throughout the globe who’re tackling urgent challenges in EdTech and the Future of Work. Through a hybrid programming format, chosen entrepreneurs will attend a one-week, in-individual residency in Washington, DC, 5 digital programming days, and a last one-week, in-individual residency in Pittsburgh, PA.

They invite options leveraging know-how to extend social and monetary inclusion and shut fairness gaps in training, wealth, and accessibility. Sub-sectors embody:

• EdTech: Solutions that leverage digital instruments and know-how to enhance educating and studying outcomes, improve accessibility and academic entry, and take away monetary obstacles to training.
  • EdTech options span Okay-12, larger training, company coaching, and lifelong studying, integrating AI, knowledge analytics, and immersive applied sciences to complement instructional experiences.
• Future of Work: Technological options that broaden job market entry for all communities and applied sciences that allow people of all talents to thrive within the office.
  • Future of Work options embody upskilling and reskilling tech, in addition to applied sciences and enterprise fashions that improve workforce analytics, collaboration, and nicely-being, usually leveraging AI, automation, and digital platforms.

Bneefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) credit
• $6K fairness-free stipend per enterprise
• Workshops with consultants in product-market match, capital technique, and management
• Professional advisors
• Networking with buyers and diversified stakeholders in EquityTech
• Access to Halcyon’s world group of 600+ founders
• Continued advantages after your program

Eligibility

They are in search of for-revenue startups constructing scalable options tackling urgent EdTech and Future of Work challenges worldwide.

• Location: Global
• Stage: Must have a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a practical potential to scale. Applicants should show early person suggestions or proof of early business validation, reminiscent of pilots, LOIs, or income.
• Team:
  • May apply with as much as one Co-Founder.
  • Applicant have to be the CEO or maintain main resolution-making energy.
  • Must be fluent in English (programming shall be in English).
  • Must be at the least 21 years of age by the beginning of this system.
• Program Engagement: Applicant(s) should decide to taking part in all residencies, program actions, occasions, and in-individual and digital classes.
• Impact: Must be growing a product and enterprise which contributes in the direction of a number of of the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Application

Fill out the eligibility form between October 31-November 20, 2025 to be thought-about for the 2026 EquityTech Fellowship. If your eligibility application meets the factors and is a match for this system, you’ll be invited to finish a second-spherical, invitational application.

For extra info, go to EquityTech Fellowship.