On April 16th, 39 teams took the stage to pitch investors at Demo Day. During the prior six weeks, founders worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the Vercel team, our partners, and industry leaders to shape their ideas into the next generation of AI applications. 39 teams spent six weeks building and learning, then pitched investors and AI leaders on Demo Day. Link to heading Six weeks with the 2026 cohort Teams from around the world joined the 2026 cohort, building agents, developer tools, consumer apps, and vertical AI for finance, security, healthcare, and robotics. Each week, the cohort joined two sessions: a hands-on technical workshop and a fireside chat with an external speaker. The workshops covered the technical side of building AI products, from agents and models to deployment and scale. Moving fast is everything in the AI era. We’re building AI for finance operations, and it was a no-brainer to run on Vercel alongside partners like Browserbase, WorkOS, and Braintrust.…