STATION F's new F/ai Program adds 6 new partners and goes international

Launched in January 2026, F/ai was built to give Europe’s most promising AI-native startups direct access to the world’s leading AI infrastructure providers, model companies, tools and investors. The program is designed for teams with strong technical backgrounds, and aims to help founders move faster from breakthrough technology to real revenue – targeting €1M in revenue within six months. 

As F/ai prepares to welcome its second cohort in September 2026, the program is adding six new partners: Eleven Labs, Nebius, Rippling, OpenRouter, Hubspot, and Github. They are joining founding partners of the program: Microsoft, Meta, Mistral AI, Google, AWS, Hugging Face, Lovable, OpenAI, Clay, Anthropic, AMD, OVHcloud, Snowflake, Cloudflare, Qualcomm, Core 42, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, 20VC, Motier Ventures, Drysdale Ventures. Participating companies will therefore have direct access to all the main leaders in AI, as well as Tier-1 funds.

In addition, the F/ai program will now include a week in San Francisco and a chance to engage with many of the program partners directly in the US at their HQ. F/ai participants will be able to meet with US-based teams and AI leaders, gaining direct access to the engineers, researchers and operators behind some of the most important products and companies in the industry. The goal is simple: give Europe-based founders the same unfair advantages available to the best-connected startups in Silicon Valley. Because when you're building in AI, access compounds. 

The first F/ai cohort was particularly strong, bringing together 20 AI-native startups with over 80% repeat founders. One third of founders held PhDs and the cohort collectively raised $34M in pre-seed funding. Several participants also won high-profile global hackathons and startup competitions during the program.

Throughout the program, founders had private, direct exchanges with some of the most influential figures in AI and technology, including Yann LeCun, Founder of AMI Labs and former Head of AI at Meta; Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic; Clément Farabet, VP of AI at DeepMind; Alexandre Pesant, Head of Product at Lovable; and Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta; Michelle Zatlyn, Cofounder, President & Co-Chair of Cloudflare.

Unlike traditional accelerators, F/ai does not accept applications. Startups are selected exclusively through recommendations from founders, partners and investors. The program is also expanding beyond Paris and is open to welcome selected hybrid teams based in key European AI hubs. The second batch of F/ai will begin in September 2026.