San Francisco-based Y Combinator is offering Summer Fellows Grants to undergraduate computer science or engineering students. The grant provides $20,000 in cash and $90,000 in cloud computing credits from AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additional credits from YC companies Fly.io ($50,000), Supabase ($10,000), Replicate ($10,000), and Resend ($3,000) are also available.
This summer, YC will be giving out grants to college students to work on their own technical projects.
— Y Combinator (@ycombinator) February 17, 2025
We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants.
We hope this will encourage the smartest students to indulge their intellectual curiosity and work on hard technical things. pic.twitter.com/UFT88ZzxeB
Fellows will attend a kick-off dinner on June 15, co-work at YC’s office from June 18-20 and August 20-22, and present their projects on August 22. The grants are intended for students who want to build technical projects, especially those using AI, rather than doing typical internships.
According to the post, eligible applicants include any undergraduate students, including freshmen, with strong technical skills. Non-computer science majors with technical experience, such as open-source contributions, can also apply. Teams should apply individually and mention any collaboration in the application.
The program requires a full-time commitment to the project, but part-time applicants with internships may also be considered. YC encourages relocation to the Bay Area but will cover travel for the co-working sessions.
Fellows will be invited to attend AI Startup School on June 16 and 17. The event will feature leaders, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, and World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, among others, who will share insights on building the future of AI.
