Vercel Picks 40 Teams for Its AI Accelerator

Vercel has announced the participants for its AI Accelerator, a program aimed at supporting early-stage AI startups and individual builders. From a pool of more than 1,500 applications, the company selected 40 participants—an acceptance rate below 3%—spanning business-to-business and consumer-focused ventures, as well as solo developers working on everything from deepfake detection to legal contract comprehension.

The cohort includes companies tackling diverse problems: Arterial applies AI to urban planning, Dili automates due diligence, and Operant BioPharma is using AI to pursue treatments for deadly diseases. On the consumer side, Jenni—which reports over one million users—helps with research paper writing, while Quest AI has generated more than 400,000 projects from Figma files. Dispatch, an AI-powered inbox for Slack, currently processes two million messages per day.

B2B Participants

  • Arterial – AI-accelerated urban planning.
  • Canvas – No-code data exploration with AI and expert templates.
  • Copilot Travel – AI-powered travel infrastructure linking suppliers and consumers.
  • Daios – Ethical governance engine for LLMs.
  • Dili – AI-driven company due diligence.
  • Dispatch – Slack inbox automation handling two million messages daily.
  • IncludeHealth – Remote physical therapy extended through AI.
  • Intuita – Platform for AI-powered code evolution.
  • Monterey – Converts customer feedback into product insights.
  • Musicfy – AI music creation for artists and songwriters.
  • Operant BioPharma – AI-focused pharma targeting deadly diseases.
  • ScaleMail – AI-based email outreach and lead management.
  • Sphere – Immersive property tours on AI.
  • Tabs – Automation for financial workflows.
  • UseChats – AI-powered feedback analysis.
  • Wonders – AI scholarly research to accelerate knowledge.

B2C Participants

  • Aasaan – No-code headless ecommerce builder.
  • HelloInterview – AI mock interviews with instantaneous feedback.
  • Jenni – Research-paper writing aid with over one million users.
  • LLM Report – Utility for monitoring OpenAI API usage.
  • Logmeals – Automatic calorie logging and smart meal suggestions.
  • Memorang – AI-based study tools focused on exam preparation.
  • Merse – Turns journal entries into AI-generated personalized comics.
  • Quest AI – Generates React code from Figma files, exceeding 400k projects.
  • Quadratic – Open-source spreadsheet built for AI.
  • Showspace – AI portfolio website generator.
  • Smol – Model distillation platform and developer agents.
  • StoryBird – Personalized AI story creation.
  • Trendup – AI generators for viral short-form content.
  • Video Tap – Automates the video-to-content workflow.

Individual Builders

  • Aman Ibrahim – Building a model to identify synthesized/deepfaked speech.
  • Calix Huang – Building Fuse, a platform for creating agent-based automations without technical expertise.
  • Dakota Goldberg – Creating a tool for automatic generation of company marketing content.
  • Darlin Alberto – Building Atticus, LLM tools to help individuals understand legal contracts.
  • Dylan Babbs – Developing a utility that helps airlines assess liability for flight cancellations.
  • Eric Baer – Building Scrivener, a podcast transcription, summarization, and dataset solution.
  • Jason Docton – Building an AI tool to help people find suitable therapists for YouAreRad.
  • Kittipat Kampa – Working to simplify commercial real estate investment.
  • Saurab Paruthi – Building AuditGPT, which uses generative AI for audit fulfillment.
  • Yiying Hu – Building an AI chat system for comprehensive real estate property insights.

AI and the Vercel Ecosystem

Vercel notes that AI-focused companies such as Scale, Jasper, Perplexity, Runway, Lexica, and Jenni launched on its platform with Next.js over the past six months. The company positions its infrastructure as a way for developers to concentrate on AI value creation rather than managing operations.

The company extended a thank-you to all applicants, who each received an email containing perks. Vercel has not announced whether another intake of the accelerator is planned.