
The place for ambitious student builders @UMich.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined January 2021
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Michigan's builders are back.
Last year 4 student teams from V1 joined Y Combinator. Startups founded by our members have raised over $20 million.
Product Studio applications close September 12.
V1 is the University of Michigan's home for builders, innovators, and founders.
Product Studio is our flagship incubator. Eight weeks to take an idea from 0 to 1 with mentorship, resources, and a pitch in front of investors at Demo Day.
If you're sketching ideas in your notebook, hacking on side projects, or thinking about starting a company, it's for you.
Open House is THIS FRIDAY. Come hear how Product Studio works:
luma.com/l32dxr2w?utm_source…
Product Studio is one way in. We run community events all semester, starting with Women in Entrepreneurship and our Internship Panel this week.
Interest form → v1michigan.com/join?utm_sour…
Telora’s founder Eliam Medina is coming to Michigan on Thursday, Oct 29🛠️
If you’re starting a company, or thinking about it, you’ll want to meet him.
Eliam started Telora after his last company, Willing (YC S15, Founders Fund), was acquired. Since then, he’s helped hundreds of students get their startups going.
He and his CTO (V1 alum!) Riya Dev are running a workshop where you’ll learn:
- how to tell if your idea is promising
- how to get customers
- why you should probably have a cofounder
- and the common mistakes that kill startups
RSVP: v1michigan.com/telora
Akshay Gupta (Michigan alum, engineering) and Nolan Cunningham (product ops) are giving the talk, and they're hiring 2027 interns and new grads.
RSVP → v1michigan.com/ambrook?utm_s…
.@eduardfausgil reverse-engineered a $200 device because the subscription annoyed him.
@UMich kids are built different.
Abdullah was on V1’s early team and built the V1 Vault, our original stash of recruiting resources and startup advice!
Since then he’s started @powelldotst and gone through YC.
Congrats to Abdullah and the team on the launch of his next big swing!
The past few months, we've partnered with healthcare systems, cloud providers, and financial exchanges to build the modern defense factory.
I'm excited to share Antigen is now generally-available. I believe our technology is essential to a future where abundant intelligence can be deployed adversarially.
Our agents run many approaches in parallel, work for hours, and find any possible opening to critical data.
They're also helpful and persistent - collaborating with your team and integrating across your company's workflows.
Startup Week gets one more night.
Idler (YC S25) builds the RL environments frontier AI labs use to train their models. Their founders are here tonight for a fireside, and they’re hiring.
10/12 | 6–8 PM
CCCB 0460
RSVP → v1michigan.com/startupweek/i…
V1 @ Michigan retweeted
i've been trying to make it a goal this year to say yes more and go on more random side quests
so i made whimsy to catch the random flight deals that no one else sees
tell it where you wanna fly from and roughly when, and it'll find you the best flash deals
link in comments
V1 @ Michigan retweeted
Last weekend at @mhacks, @manavkhosla25, @varchaskukreja, and I built Physical Realities, a Jev-powered simulation platform that lets operators test how changes to physical venues affect customer experience. We ended up winning first overall! Check it out below:
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excited to host @spacexai with @v1michigan today!
if you're at @umich, come stop by
luma.com/0ku8agev?tk=x3WVj3
Startup Week Kickoff is Monday.
@spacexai is headlining. Keynote from @MikeVichich, who sold Wisely for $187M and now runs Pursuit.
Founders and engineers from
@DryftHQ, @BuildWithMiter, Authentic, @AirSpaceIntel, @khoslaventures, and many more will be there.
📅 Mon 10/5, 6-8 PM
📍 Blau Colloquium, 5th Floor
Free food + merch too ;)
RSVP link in comments.
V1 @ Michigan retweeted
Last weekend at @HackMIT, @jaydenclim @RahuuuulK @Justin01926418 and I built Sift, a reimbursement reconciliation platform for small organizations. We experimented with using @typesafeai and @CompleteSkeptic 's new Jev model throughout the product. Check it out below!
Out of stealth in February.
$50M Series B from Benchmark in May.
$85M raised, with Founders Fund, the Collison brothers, and Garry Tan backing them.
Monaco is coming to Ann Arbor tomorrow for an open info session with V1 🎤
Fireside chat, Q&A, then networking with the team.
📅 Tomorrow, 9/29 | 6 - 8 PM
📍 CCCB 3420
RSVP link in comments.




















