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SoKat AI Accelerator

Summer 2025

Applications are now open for SoKat's AI Accelerator, Summer 2025 cohort in FinTech.

If you have an idea for leveraging advanced AI, including generative and agentic AI, to transform the financial services and asset management industry, we want to help you take it from concept to MVP in 4 weeks. If your MVP is selected during Demo Day, we'll help continue development to reach a Market-Ready product solution.

1. Duration: 4 weeks
2. Start/End: June 16 - July 14
3. Participants: Teams that propose the most promising FinTech AI product ideas for the current and future state of the Financial Services industry
4. Style: Rapid-iteration, mentorship-driven, community-centered
5. Deadline to Apply: June 9, 2025

Apply Here

Program Highlights

Experienced Mentorship

Receive dedicated, one-on-one mentorship from SoKat leadership and distinguished Johns Hopkins faculty, accelerating your learning curve and enhancing your project's potential.

Strategic Guidance

Build meaningful relationships and gain insights into real-world finance challenges with industry leaders and seasoned entrepreneurs, laying the groundwork for future collaboration and opportunities.

Real-World Impact

Focus your efforts on solving high-impact challenges using ever-evolving AI technology to solve problems in the financial services industry, turning innovative concepts into actionable, market-ready solutions.

Accelerator Schedule

Week 1

Validate and refine your innovative idea

week 2

Rapid prototyping and iterative development

week 3

Expert feedback and solution improvement

week 4

MVP Demo Day

What happens after MVP Day?

What happens after mvp demo day?

Following Demo Day, winning teams will be invited to further develop their projects in-house at SoKat AI Lab.

Product development within SoKat AI Lab provides access to ongoing mentorship, comprehensive resources, and SoKat’s established client network. Teams will also participate in a revenue-sharing model, ensuring proper incentive alignment.

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. SoKat is committed to helping talented entrepreneurs create their own opportunities.