Twelve weeks engineered to make you move faster than you could alone. We write your first check, put an experienced founder with your team every week, and get you in front of the investors who fund your next round.
Apply to the cohort
You’ll join a room of elite peers who push you. We’ll write you a check, and stack credits on top of it for the infrastructure you build on.
You’ll get hands-on mentorship from a partner who’s an experienced founder, plus support from the TNT team, on your go-to-market and your product every week.
You’ll get training on how to tell your story. We’ll open doors for you and give you the exposure to VCs you need to raise.
Summer 2025
Deep Tech
Factory-built nuclear reactors for AI data centers.
Spring 2026
Deep Tech
Quantum cameras for earth and space intelligence
Spring 2025
AI Infrastructure
Inference infrastructure for agents that manage their own context, backed by novel model system co-design.
Spring 2026
Hard Tech
Rapid-deploy off-grid housing for disaster survivors, delivered in 72 hours instead of 4 months
One application. No fee to apply and no fee to take part.
No. We take teams before incorporation and teams a year in. What we look for is that you’re building, and that this is your priority.
Yes. TNT is for founders coming out of MIT and Harvard, not only current undergraduates. Postdocs, PhD students and recent alumni all apply, and your cofounders can come from anywhere.
You don’t need to have graduated or dropped out, and the cohort runs alongside the semester for exactly that reason. What we do expect is that your startup gets most of your time and is the priority, not a side project.
Yes. Many of our founders run TNT alongside something else at MIT or Harvard, and nothing in our terms gets in the way of applying elsewhere afterwards.