Startup accelerators accepting applications January 2026
List of startup accelerators open in January 2026, including Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, OpenAI Converge and many others for founders seeking funding.
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List of startup accelerators open in January 2026, including Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, OpenAI Converge and many others for founders seeking funding.
Zubr Capital Young Hackathon in Warsaw on Feb 14 — one-day event for students and founders to build AI-powered MVPs; free, limited spaces.

Apple focused on local intelligence: unified memory, Neural Engines and clustered Mac Minis as an affordable approach to AI compute.

Sergey Osipov rebrands his channel from Placy to Naturally Artificial — founder-to-founder AI startup insights, PMF stories (Cyprus, Greece) and cross-media links.

List of corporate euphemisms for 2026 (Marketer → Storyteller, Automation → AI agents) from Placy founder Sergey Osipov.

Harari on the Cognitive Revolution and the idea that products should be driven by community; Placy powered by 8k+ subscribers and social feedback.

Sergey Osipov on how US strengths (chips, cloud, VC) and China’s power capacity (coal, hydro, nuclear) shape AI infrastructure and geopolitics.

Five emerging AI leadership models — Augmented, Algorithmic, Transparent, Adaptive, Collective Intelligence — and a talk with psychologist Andrey Evdokimov.
Playsense and Valorant celebrated a Clio Award; a question about whether ad festivals will penalize agencies for using AI after the Expedition33 case.
On Claire Obscure's Expedition 33 losing Indie Game Awards over AI use; industry reactions from Kojima, Vávra and players and what it means for modern GameDev.

Course for expats preparing Cyprus politics & history exams; Russian group starts 26 Dec, English 3 Jan. Instructor Natalia Kardash.

A candid first-person account of deploying Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees, inflated metrics, and corporate buzzwords around AI enablement.