The internet is the world's largest dataset, but it wasn't built for software. It was built for human eyes. Websites are complex interfaces designed for clicking, filling forms, and navigating menus.
Every AI tool being built today needs live web data. LLM agents, copilots, RAG pipelines, autonomous workflows — all of them hit the same barrier: the web is locked behind dynamic rendering, multi-step workflows, and anti-bot systems.
Search indexes worked when humans read results. They fail when machines need to act. TinyFish is the infrastructure layer this entire wave requires.
The next generation of software won't be static websites. It will be agentic applications you command — sourcing candidates, reconciling billing, auditing supply chains, coordinating transactions across the entire web.
The TinyFish Accelerator exists to find the founders who see this future clearly, and give them every unfair advantage to build it.
We don't read pitch decks. We don't review application forms. We don't care about warm intros.
We watch code run and application work.
To apply, you build a real, working agentic application using the TinyFish Web Agent API and partner companies, record a raw demo, and post it publicly on X.
If your video shows slides, you're automatically rejected. If it shows terminal logs scrolling and a browser navigating complex workflows in real time, you pass to the next round.
We call this Public Proof-of-Work.
In today's crowded AI agent space, attention is the most valuable currency. It brings traffic, revenue, partnerships, and top talent. The founders who master the art of building in public are the ones who compound their advantages from day one. Founders start building an audience from day zero, before they ever enter the program.
This accelerator rewards idea, velocity, execution, and distribution.
Let's be clear about what we're looking for.
The AI space is flooded with tools that call themselves "agents" but are really just thin layers on top of an LLM - a script that makes one API call and formats the output. That's not what we fund.
We fund agentic applications, full-stack products that go out into the live web, navigate complex and dynamic interfaces, manage authentication and state across sessions, handle branching logic and retries, and execute real, multi-step transactions at scale.
The kind of software that replaces entire workflows a human used to do manually, not just one step of it.
The bar is simple: if your product doesn't need browser infrastructure to function, it's not a fit. We're investing in applications that prove the thesis of the Agentic Web, that the entire internet can become a programmable backend for a new class of software.
We didn't just collect partner logos. We deliberately assembled the full infrastructure stack so that every founder in the program has everything they need to build a production-grade agentic application with zero friction.
From compute and hosting to databases, AI models, tooling, observability, and design — every layer is covered by our 15+ official partner companies:
Accepted founders receive free API keys and credits across the stack. Plus something most programs can't offer: direct access to the engineers who built the tools. Not support docs. Not a help desk. A direct line to solution engineers at every partner company.
Access is the real currency of any great program. We built the TinyFish Accelerator around high-bandwidth access to the people who actually matter.
The Investors
You deal directly with Robin Vasan, Managing Partner of Mango Capital, the investor behind HashiCorp, Netlify, and InfluxData. No associates. No investment committees filtering you out. You pitch the decision-maker, and funding decisions are made immediately.
The Mentors
Weekly Business Mentorship sessions with founders, operators, and GTM experts who've scaled infrastructure companies from seed to IPO. Because building a company is harder than writing code — and the founders who master both are the ones who win.
First Customers Built In
For B2B agentic apps, your first customers might be sitting in the cohort with you. The batch acts as a high-density test environment, integrating with fellow cohort companies gives you your first users and the highest-quality technical feedback before you ever go public.
You're a technical founder who can ship fast. Maybe you're a student with a hackathon project that's itching to become a company. Maybe you're a working engineer with a side build that's gaining traction. Maybe you're idea-stage but you can prototype a working application in days.
We don't filter on pedigree. We don't care about your resume, your university, or your LinkedIn headline. We care about one thing: can you build software that does real work on the live web?
If the answer is yes, or even almost yes, this program is designed for you.
Applications open February 17, 2026 on a rolling basis for the next 6 weeks. Founders accepted early gain Pre-Flight status, meaning you get access to TinyFish API keys, engineering support, and mentorship sessions weeks before the official sprint begins. The earlier you apply, the more runway you get.
This is a 9-week program designed to take you from a working prototype to a fundable, production-ready agentic application with the full infrastructure stack, mentorship, and a direct line to capital.
No pitch decks. No essays. No gatekeeping. Just build.
👉 Apply for the TinyFish Accelerator
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