Sponsor the alpha cohort
Aug 24 to Sept 25, 2026, the teams of the Earned Governance Accelerator
build a new kind of corporation: bottom-up accountability, earned equity and
governance, giving workers a real voice. Sponsorship pays participant
stipends and keeps the program free for the teams.
Supporter
$200
Helps keep the program free for the teams.
- Your name on the sponsor page
- The monthly note from the cohort
- Invite to demo day
Support the cohort
Silver Sponsor
$500
Help build the tools and support the participants with small stipends so they can truly focus.
- Goes into the stipend pool, split by work logged
- The monthly note, direct from the founders
- Everything in Supporter
Fund the stipends
Gold Sponsor
$1,000
Carries a whole piece of the program for the teams.
- Your name on a piece of the program: kickoff week, a team's legal formation, demo day
- We say your name when it happens
- Option to host a session
- Everything above
Carry a piece of it
Sapphire Sponsor
$5,000
Level up the entire program with support for tools, staff and participant stipends.
- Your name on the front page
- See who did the work in each team
- Intros to contributors
- First look at the companies forming
- Everything above
Make it Happen
Ventures, Mentors and Workers are already joining. We present the cohort,
and the sponsors who made it possible, at the
Ownership Economy Summit,
Oct 1, 2026 in Manhattan.
In-kind counts the same
Credits, API access, hosting, software licenses, legal hours. Some
people have something worth more to a founder than the cash equivalent.
Let us know what you have to offer.
Offer what you have
Investing in the accelerator instead? Join as a funder →
Questions before you decide? Write to
sahdasamier@gmail.com.
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