# Episode 1  Feb 1 - 7, 2026

## The Starting Line

### Setting Up and Clearing Roadblocks

## Race to Revenue

REAL BUILDERS. REAL PRESSURE. REAL REVENUE.

### Build in public.  Race to revenue.

Eight weeks. Real stakes. Every breakthrough documented.

## The Program

### Eight weeks.  No runway. No excuses.

Race to Revenue is Replit's 8-week accelerator. Twenty founders, selected from around the world, given eight weeks to build real products on Replit, find paying customers, and prove what's possible. We captured every breakthrough, every setback, and every dollar earned.

1. **Wk 1**
2. **Wk 2**
3. **Wk 3**
4. **Wk 4**
5. **Wk 5**
6. **Wk 6**
7. **Wk 7**
8. **🏆 Wk 8**

### The Prize

#### Win more than money.

Every week is a checkpoint. Every milestone is public. Every dollar earned is proof.

- **8 weeks.**
- **$25K prize.**

### The Format

#### Execution over everything.

No pitches. No fake demos. Just founders building real products, serving real customers, with mentors and a community who've been in the trenches before you.

- No pitches
- No fake demos
- Real stakes

### The Community

#### Your cohort is your unfair advantage.

20 builders. 8 weeks. One shared mission. Your cohort holds you accountable, challenges your thinking, and celebrates every win. They collectively understand how hard you're working.

## Cohort Perks

### Applications Open

## The next great builder is reading this right now.

Eight weeks. Real mentors. $25K on the line. Apply to Race to Revenue and prove what you can build.

[Apply Now →](https://race-to-revenue.replit.app/my-application)

## The builders racing to revenue

Scroll to meet the founders competing this series.

### Apoorva Pillutla  
**Peterie**  
[View profile →](https://peterie.io/)

### Killian Doherty  
**Motico**  
[View profile →](https://kinetico-online.replit.app)

### Raphael Lott & Clemens Lotz  
**OCALO**  
[View profile →](http://www.ocalo.app/)

### Jen Crichlow  
**Paidaze**  
[View profile →](https://get.paidaze.com/)

### Carlos Andrés Ramírez Serna  
**NeuraAgro**  
[View profile →](https://neuraagro.com/)

### Natalia Madera  
**Funwell**  
[View profile →](https://www.funwellmoney.com/)

### Rich Borgatti  
**Ruckfecta**  
[View profile →](https://ruckfecta.com/)

### Jucely Rivera  
**almíbar**  
[View profile →](https://www.almibar.app/en)

### Magomed Kurbaitaev  
**Gameplan**  
[View profile →](https://gameplan.io/)

### Roberto Fernández del Castillo  
**Ruku**  
[View profile →](https://rukumove.com/)

### Founders Overview

- **Peterie** - Mobile application for pet grooming businesses with unified booking experience and local networks
- **Motico** - Builds bespoke tools and platforms for teams and systems to make businesses digital
- **OCALO** - Operating system for labels and artists bringing communication, files, feedback, approvals, and deadlines into one place
- **Paidaze** - AI-powered loyalty wallet that finds and stacks the best deals on every purchase
- **NeuraAgro** - Turns voice messages and phone calls into structured farm and export data, replacing field visits, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp chaos in Latin American fresh fruit supply chain
- **Funwell** - Financial wellness platform with behavior-based budgeting, education, and flat-fee advisory services
- **Ruckfecta** - Fair, transparent leaderboards for rucking challenges accounting for distance, elevation, and load
- **almíbar** - Professional infrastructure for the hospitality industry transforming individual talent into scalable, data-verified business assets
- **Gameplan** - Gameplan is a platform where fans support athletes they believe in and follow their journey
- **Ruku** - AI-native platform connecting individual movers and moving companies to customers requiring moving services

### Watch

**Episode 1** The Starting Line  
**Full Episode**  **Trailer**  
**Episode 2** Reality Check  **Preview Available**  
**Episode 3** The Perfect Storm  **Coming Soon**  
**Episode 4** All In  **Coming Soon**  
**Episode 5** The Pitch  **Coming Soon**  
**Episode 6** Resistance  **Coming Soon**  
**Episode 7** Design Thinking  **Coming Soon**

**(Repeated content omitted for brevity)**