The 6-week program provides infrastructure proven at Disney, Xbox, and Nvidia scale, expert mentorship on growth, and VC access to help AI startups scale from thousands to millions of users.
The consumer AI market is booming, but infrastructure remains the critical bottleneck. While AI development tools have made building products faster than ever, most startups struggle to scale beyond early adopters, lacking both the technical infrastructure for millions of concurrent users and the business expertise to drive growth.
The program, which runs January 12 – February 20, 2026, will select 15 AI-native startups from applications worldwide to address these challenges. The curriculum focuses on three critical areas: growth strategies, fundraising, and AI infrastructure.
Selected startups benefit from 25+ fireside chats and 1-on-1 mentorship sessions with operators from Character AI, Flo, Higgsfield, Pinterest, and Bible Chat — companies that have successfully scaled consumer AI products to millions of users. Topics include user acquisition, growing LTV, monetization strategies, and strategic hiring.
During the program, participants will meet investors in person for a private networking dinner with VCs from Bitkraft Ventures, M12 Microsoft, Lightspeed, Maven, SignalFire, Accel, and Speedlight — firms that have backed the current generation of consumer AI companies.
Startups receive Inworld credits to build native AI experiences with access to LLM routing, top-rated AI voices, text-to-speech, real-time pipelines, live experiments, and low-latency infrastructure. Combined with deals from AWS, Cursor, Deel, and Superscale, participants get over $500K in total value.
Founders can now launch AI products in weeks, but scaling to millions of users is where 90% fail. They hit infrastructure limits and lack growth expertise.
Consumer AI Accelerator solves both — combining AI infrastructure with direct access to investors and operators who have scaled consumer AI successfully.
says Tania Ladanova, CEO at TRMNL4.
Inworld AI & TRMNL4 team
It’s easy to prototype AI products, but scaling to millions of concurrent users is incredibly hard. We built infrastructure for Disney, Xbox, and Nvidia that solves this, and now we’re making it accessible to the next generation of consumer AI founders through this accelerator.
comments Kylan Gibbs, CEO & Co-founder at Inworld.
The program is equity-free, targets AI-native startups worldwide across apps & copilots, gaming & media, voice agents, and live customer experience verticals. Applications open November 10 and close December 10, with selection on a rolling basis through pitch deck review and interview stages. The program culminates in a private demo day dinner on March 3rd with investors from Lightspeed, Accel, SignalFire, and others.
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