Apply to Cohort 20 - Land your dream job

CoCreate 10 week Advanced Internship Cohort 20 is interviewing now — Apply Today

The CoCreate cohort is a structured fully immersive 10-week, application-based designer & product accelerator where top early-career designers team up with world-class startup founders and Big Tech coaches to ship real products—gaining real work experience on their resume, & killer portfolios pieces.

As a student who do I work with?
You’ll be part of a small, focused product team—modeled after a big tech internships. Here are other teams from this year 2025.

Here’s who you’ll be collaborating with:

• 1 startup founder from the heart of Silicon Valley (often YC, On Deck, or other top incubators)
• 4 design teammates, typically HCI master’s students, recent grads, or experienced career switchers
• 2 big tech coaches to guide your product thinking and execution
• 1 alumni coach from a previous cohort who’s been through the journey and is here to mentor you on career growth and applications

Over 10 weeks, you’ll take on real, high-stakes product challenges—no fluff, no filler—just real work and real momentum.

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How Cohort Works

We run one cohort per quarter, blending flexible hybrid learning with a Demo Day or Retreat in San Francisco for an unforgettable in-person weekend.

Weekly Structure

• 5 hrs live, team-based sessions
• 10–15 hrs async product work
• Weekly founder design reviews
• 3 live coaching sessions/week with dedicated coaches from Google, Meta, Shopify, etc.
• All-hands sessions with career + technical talks from cross-functional leaders
• 1:1 career planning with lead + alumni coaches

Demo Day & Outcomes

Present your work to hiring managers and investors at Demo Day. We select top-tier founders (from 30+ applicants) who are either building something incredible or actively looking to hire.

50% of teams make at least one hire—this isn’t just learning, it’s a direct line to your next role. Check out cohrot 18 here, or some of the photos from cohrot 19 last weekend.

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Who can apply, and who do we accept?

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We’re looking for ambitious early-career designers—students aiming for big tech, creative technologists, builders, career switchers, and product thinkers eager to break into tech or join top startups.

No experience? No problem. We value commitment and drive above all.

We know how frustrating it is to get ghosted—so we promise to personally interview every applicant who submits a deposit. We spend a full month reviewing 100+ applications to select just 20 students.

Give it a shot. Show us your resume—we’re not choosing based on who you are today, but who you can become tomorrow.
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Outcomes

• A top start up on your resume as work experience -
  • Dozens land roles at that startup, or get hired from other agencies, startup's and tech companies from connections made on retreat/demoday.
• One - Two members currently in university per cohort get big tech internships or new grad roles like Google/Meta, every cohort.
• Top alumni become future alumni coaches.

Tuition & Scholarships
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Tuition ranges from $4,888–$6,888, with split payments available. Early birds and referrals get the lowest rate.

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Why not free?

We believe in mutual selection—you’re choosing us, and we’re choosing you. While sponsors help cover costs like Demo Day and retreats, we pay our coaches some of the highest rates in the industry to ensure quality and commitment. We’ve offered full scholarships in the past, but found that even strong interview performers under full grants often showed the lowest engagement, likely due to lower personal investment.

We don’t take money from founders, and we offer full transparency: you can sit in, observe, and speak directly with past or current students—no sales spin, just real experiences.

A fully refundable deposit is required to book an interview due to high demand.

We also offer Excellence Grants to top performers who aren’t hired by founders.

Spots fill quickly—if you’re accepted but this cohort is full, you can reserve a spot for the next one.

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How to Apply

1. Submit your application from the portal
2. Interview with our team
3. Get matched with a founder
4. Pay tuition
5. Join the kickoff weekend for your team, starting at the end of May 2025 to the start of June and start building
   
   

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Final words for cohort 20?

Cohort 19 just wrapped on May 9th—with our biggest Demo Day yet. 20+ teammates flew in from all over the world. 100+ alumni showed up. We heard wild stories from Cohorts 16–19: landing jobs at Google, Meta, joining their startup full-time, or building their own thing.

Full videos and stories coming soon—but honestly, we’re not here to take credit. They earned it. We’re just proud to now welcome 10+ of them back as alumni coaches for Cohort 20.

5 years in. Still just getting started.

Apply now if you’re ready to build something real—and join the most driven crew around.

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