AI & Machine Learning Startup Perks

ElevenLabs Grants give qualifying founders free access to the ElevenLabs voice AI platform — build realistic; expressive AI voices for media; customer service; or conversational AI into your product.

Microsoft for Startups supports all Founders from Idea to Exit and is now accepting founders everywhere, no funding is required. The platform provides founders with free resources to solve startup challenges. The platform enables startups to unlock the technology and support required to scale a company from inception to growth stage.

This perk offers up to $100,000 in credits to use with Google Cloud during your first year and 20% of your usage covered during your second year, up to an additional $100,000.

IBM helps startups at every stage of their journey. With access to IBM’s secure and open hybrid cloud platform (including Red Hat OpenShift), startups are able to build with up to $120,000 in IBM Cloud credits.

OpenAI's startup program provides early-stage companies with API credits to build products powered by GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, and other cutting-edge AI models.

Pinecone for Startups provides early-stage AI teams with vector database credits — the purpose-built vector DB powering semantic search, RAG pipelines, and AI-native applications at scale.

Cohere for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies discounted access to Cohere's enterprise-grade NLP platform — large language models for text generation, embeddings, reranking, and semantic search.

Perplexity for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 6 months free of Perplexity Enterprise Pro (50 seats) plus $5,000 in Perplexity API credits — AI-powered search and research for your whole team.

The Mistral AI Ambassador Program gives qualifying AI-native startups free API credits; early access to new Mistral models; and VIP recognition in a 6-month equity-free program.

RunPod for Startups gives venture-backed AI companies dedicated GPU compute credits and infrastructure support - the high-performance cloud GPU platform for model training; fine-tuning; and production inference at scale.

MongoDB for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free MongoDB Atlas credits; Voyage AI tokens; one-on-one technical advice; and co-marketing opportunities - built on the worlds most popular NoSQL database.

Alibaba Cloud gives qualifying early-stage startups up to $50000 in cloud credits; technical support; co-marketing opportunities; and access to Alibaba global investor and partner networks.

Together AI Startup Accelerator gives qualifying AI-native companies free compute credits; dedicated engineering support; and GTM amplification to 800K+ developers on the leading open-source AI cloud.

Runway Builders gives Seed to Series C startups free API credits; higher rate limits; and early access to Runway Characters — the real-time conversational avatar API powered by Runway's General World Model.

NVIDIA Inception is a free startup program giving AI and data science companies preferred pricing on NVIDIA hardware and software; co-marketing support; and connections to NVIDIA experts; VCs; and the global Inception ecosystem.

Deepgram for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $100000 in free API credits — the leading speech-to-text and audio intelligence platform for building voice AI products; transcription; and conversation analytics.

AssemblyAI for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $150000 in Speech AI API credits — the leading AI speech recognition platform for transcription; speaker diarisation; sentiment analysis; and audio intelligence.

HeyGen for Startups gives qualifying pre-Series B companies up to 90% off the HeyGen AI video generation platform — enterprise-grade AI avatars; voice cloning; multilingual video; and API access for creating professional video content at scale.

Cerebras for Startups gives qualifying AI-focused early-stage companies up to $22500 in Cerebras compute credits; priority access to new AI models; and technical and marketing support — the fastest AI inference platform powered by the Wafer Scale Engine.

AWS Activate Portfolio+ gives startups in select top-tier AWS partner organisations up to $100000 in AWS credits — the highest tier of AWS Activate for high-growth startups.

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

Databricks for Startups gives qualifying VC-funded early-stage companies up to $50000 in Databricks credits; free business-tier technical support; and co-marketing opportunities on the unified Data and AI platform.

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

If you’re looking for a new way of working and want more than the status quo, Google Cloud is the new way to cloud. With the AI, data, infrastructure, collaboration, and security tools built for today and tomorrow. AI that’s ready for what’s next, data insights that help innovate faster, infrastructure that’s designed to meet industry needs, collaboration tools that help teams do their best work, and security that proactively stops threats. Discover what’s new with Google Cloud.

Render's Scale AI tier gives AI and compute-intensive startups with over $2.5M raised up to $100,000 in cloud hosting credits — one of the highest non-hyperscaler credit amounts available to early-stage AI companies.

Roboflow for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the Roboflow computer vision platform - the end-to-end tool for building; training; and deploying vision AI models with no infrastructure overhead.

Roboflow for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the Roboflow computer vision platform - the end-to-end tool for building; training; and deploying vision AI models with no infrastructure overhead.

The Anthropic Startup Program provides qualifying startups with up to $25,000 in Claude API credits to build AI-powered products with one of the world's most capable and safety-focused AI models.

The Anthropic Startup Program provides qualifying startups with up to $25,000 in Claude API credits to build AI-powered products with one of the world's most capable and safety-focused AI models.

Databricks for Startups gives qualifying VC-funded early-stage companies up to $50000 in Databricks credits; free business-tier technical support; and co-marketing opportunities on the unified Data and AI platform.

Algolia is a hosted, API first platform to build great search and discovery experiences. We provide indexing APIs to automate your data pipeline. With 18K customers, we serve more than 85 billion queries a month.

Algolia is a hosted, API first platform to build great search and discovery experiences. We provide indexing APIs to automate your data pipeline. With 18K customers, we serve more than 85 billion queries a month.

Nebius for Startups gives AI-focused early-stage companies $5,000 in immediate GPU credits plus up to $100,000 in discounted compute — enterprise-grade H100 infrastructure without hyperscaler friction or quota roadblocks.

Yext for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $35000 in Yext credits — the AI search platform that helps companies deliver accurate; consistent answers across their website; app; and third-party sites.

Nebius for Startups gives AI-focused early-stage companies $5,000 in immediate GPU credits plus up to $100,000 in discounted compute — enterprise-grade H100 infrastructure without hyperscaler friction or quota roadblocks.

Cartesia Startup Grants give qualifying founders free access to the Cartesia voice AI platform — build category-defining voice experiences with the world's fastest real-time voice AI at 90ms latency.

OpenRouter for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $5000 in universal inference credits — usable across 300+ frontier and open-source AI models with 0% processing fees; through a single unified API.

Groq for Startups gives qualifying early-stage AI companies $10000 in free inference compute credits — the world's fastest AI inference platform powered by the Language Processing Unit (LPU) delivering up to 2000 tokens per second.

DeepInfra DeepStart gives qualifying early-stage AI companies up to 1 billion free inference tokens — the cost-effective ML inference platform for running state-of-the-art open-source models including Llama; Mistral; Qwen; and Stable Diffusion in production.

Modal for Startups gives qualifying early-stage AI companies $25000 in compute credits — the serverless cloud platform for deploying custom AI models and Python workloads with GPU acceleration; auto-scaling; and instant cold-start.

Microsoft for Startups Investor Network gives VC-backed startups up to $150,000 in Azure credits — plus GitHub; Microsoft 365; OpenAI API credits; and dedicated technical support — for startups backed by a participating investor or accelerator in the Microsoft for Startups Investor Network.

DigitalOcean Hatch's AI/ML tier gives AI-focused startups up to $100,000 in compute credits plus preferred GPU Droplet pricing at $1.90/hr — making it one of the most accessible GPU compute programs for AI startups. Contact hatch@digitalocean.com for AI tier details.

Together AI's startup accelerator gives startups that have raised between $5M and $10M up to $30,000 in compute credits plus 6 hours of engineering support — covering serverless inference, fine-tuning, and custom kernel optimisation on the largest open-weight model fleet.

Together AI's startup accelerator gives startups that have raised over $10M up to $50,000 in compute credits plus 10 hours of engineering support — covering serverless inference, fine-tuning, and custom kernel optimisation on the largest open-weight model fleet.