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Community for Startups

Programming to connect founders to funding, founders to founders, and opportunity-seekers to hiring startups.

Content for Startups

Skill-building workshops for teams, roundtables for founders, startup crawls to showcase growth. Plus peer-to-peer meetups and mentorship that encourage personal and professional development.

Workspace for Startups

From bullpen-style workspace to dedicated offices for teams of one to teams of 75, American Underground spaces were designed to grow with you.
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“The AU community is supportive and responsive. Whether you have a question about the best way to do something, need talent to fill a role or an introduction to a potential investor, or need a word of encouragement, this community rises to the occasion. They’re quick to help and the first to celebrate. AU members make time for one another.”

Bernard Worthy
Founder and CEO, LoanWell

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“Our People & Culture team took part in a two-day American Underground workshop with Google for Startups. The knowledge they took away from the session was fantastic. We’ve been able to apply many of the insights to our hiring process at Teamworks to make it more objective, inclusive and true to our culture.”

Zach Maurides
Founder and CEO, Teamworks

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“Being part of Google for Startups at American Underground’s @Market campus has given us access to a network of people, opportunities and experiences which have been essential to growing an ambitious health AI startup tackling the democratization of injury prevention and rehabilitative science. Especially outside the Valley.”

Ivonna Dumnayan
Co-founder and CEO, Fathom AI

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Of companies are led by a person of color

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of AU-based Companies are Cash-flow Positive

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Of AU-based companies have earned revenue

Raised in funding by AU Companies since 2014

new Triangle startup jobs since 2014

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