The Residency
A global network of themed live-in homes for ambitious inventors, deep-tech founders, researchers, and creatives.
The product
Selective residential programs and homes where founders, inventors, researchers, hardware builders, scientists, engineers, and creatives live and work together in concentrated cohorts. The current network lists ten homes: Inventors, SF2, Odyssey, and Atlas in San Francisco; Arcadia in Berkeley; V2 in Vancouver; Bangalore House; Aurea in Berlin; The Residency Vienna; and The Founding Co. in Hyderabad.
The thesis
The model concentrates technical talent and gives early builders time, community, and introductions that can turn research or prototypes into companies.
How it runs
The Residency coordinates a network of differently themed live-in builder communities and a common application pathway. Individual homes emphasize particular cohorts or disciplines, including hardware, deep tech, AI and biotech, frontier technology, creative technology, purpose-driven founders, and generalist builders; some are partner or sister communities with their own local operators and sites.
How it earns
Hybrid founder-residency model funded through cash program and occupancy charges (including program fees, rent, deposits, and guest-stay charges) and, for some participants, equity consideration through Residency Agreements, SAFEs, or side letters.
Why it wins
The program combines the intensity and peer density of a residential community with accelerator-style access to experienced founders and investors, while serving builders who want protected time to pursue ambitious projects without school or job obligations.
Evidence ledger
- website · 2026-05-28
The Residency identifies as a reindustrialization company.
https://www.livetheresidency.com - first-party · 2026-09-17
The official site describes three-to-six-month in-person cohorts, housing, coworking, coaching, introductions, demo day, target participants, and a global hub model.
https://www.livetheresidency.com/ - first-party · 2026-09-17
The organization publicly highlights companies that emerged from its residency network and an alumni startup directory.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/live-the-residency_what-startups-have-emerged-from-the-residency-activity-7411799359463489536-UXlA - web · 2026-10-04
Current themed homes in San Francisco, Berkeley, Vancouver, and Bangalore 12-week Inventors residency format Hardware and deep-tech emphasis at the SF2 home
https://www.livetheresidency.com/residencies - web · 2026-10-04
Current intake lists San Francisco, New York, Vienna, Berkeley, Bangalore, Cambridge, Ithaca, London, Munich, Hyderabad, and Milan
https://apply.livetheresidency.com/apply - web · 2026-08-20
Founder portal and separate residency agreements Program fees, rent, deposits, and guest-stay charges Some participation governed by SAFEs or similar equity instruments Introductions to partners, coaches, mentors, and investors
https://experience.livetheresidency.com/terms - web · 2026-10-04
Registered 501(c)(3) status Tax-deductible donations fund scholarships Scholarships can cover housing, food, travel, and learning
https://www.livetheresidency.com/donate - web · 2026-10-20
The Residency says its strategy is to enable and accelerate high-potential young people and identifies the team and local community architects supporting its network.
https://www.livetheresidency.com/about
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