The Transcend Fellowship is a selective five-week remote program for early-stage founders building products or services for the future of learning and work. Transcend Network helps fellows identify a product-market-fit challenge and run rapid, low-cost experiments.
The cohort meets twice weekly at 8 a.m. US Pacific time and includes coaching, expert sessions, peer feedback, fundraising guidance, and mentor introductions. TF19 applications are not yet open; the site says only that they will open soon.
Benefits & funding
- The latest published TF18 tuition was US$1,800 in one payment, three monthly payments of US$650, or six monthly payments of US$350.
- Participation is equity-free.
- Applicants from low- and middle-income countries may request scholarships; no award amount is published.
- Graduates receive lifetime network membership, including online and in-person community events without an additional founder fee.
- Fellows who meet pre-seed metrics may get one-to-one investor introductions and can later apply to the Transcend Fund.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be startup founders working on how people learn or work; adjacent sectors may qualify when the venture has a relevant angle.
- The fellowship is for founders with an existing project, although founders without one who have identified a customer persona are encouraged to apply.
- Founders who are still pre-product and pre-revenue are directed to Transcend’s separate validation bootcamp on Maven rather than the fellowship.
- Founders are accepted individually rather than as teams.
- No nationality, residency, academic-degree, age, gender, or work-experience threshold is published.
Can you apply?
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Application process
- 1Register on the official updates page while TF19 applications remain closed.
- 2Complete the fellowship application when Transcend announces the next cohort.
- 3Transcend reviews every application, gives individual feedback, and selection includes an interview.
Program timeline
TF18 application deadline
Oct 3, 2025
TF18 program started
Oct 20, 2025
TF18 program ended
Dec 11, 2025
Date not announced
TF19 applications open