Claude Startups
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Claude products for startups give you everything you need to build your idea and support your team.
Claude API
Build on frontier intelligence by adding Claude models with a single integration.
Claude Code
Ship faster with Claude Code. Describe what you need and Claude Code works across your code to build, debug, and ship it.
Claude Managed Agents
Create your own production agents with MCP, code execution, and tool use. Go from prototype to deployed agents in days.
Customer stories
A look inside the startups and founders using Claude. See what they shipped and how Claude transformed their business.
Stories, playbooks, and lessons from founders shipping with Claude.
The conversation covers multi-agent orchestration, MCP in production, autonomous agent design, and the tradeoffs each team has worked through along the way.
Claude Startups is our program for early-stage founders. Members get access to offers, tools, and events to help run their business using Claude. Our current cohort is now full, and we’re not accepting new applications right now.
Tools to run an AI-native company
Access discounts and credits worth up to $45,000 from companies building with Claude.
A support system as you grow
Members can join live group sessions with Anthropic’s Applied AI team and exclusive Claude Startup events, hackathons, and community meetups.
Meet in person, online, and everywhere builders gather.
Claude Founder House San Francisco
October 6–8, 2026
Join the Anthropic team at the Claude Founder House during SF Tech Week, built for the next generation of great AI companies. Come cowork with our team, join us for a number of talks and workshops, and close the week out with our Founder Salon.
From Anthropic
Founder House, Founder Days, Builder Days, and hackathons hosted by our team.
From the community
Meetups and demo nights organized by founders building with Claude.
From anywhere
Livestreams, AMAs, and on-demand sessions you can watch on your own time.
Claude Startups is Anthropic’s program for early-stage founders building on Claude. Members get access to offers, tools, and events to help run their business using Claude. Interest in the program has been far higher than we expected, and our current cohort is now full, so we’re not accepting new applications right now. Subscribe to the Claude Startup newsletter to hear when applications open for the next cohort and get the latest updates for startups building on Claude.
Yes, the program is continuing for current members. Your membership includes offers on AI-native tools through the Claude Startup Stack, access to group sessions with Anthropic’s Applied AI team every other week, and invites to Claude Startup events, hackathons, and community meetups.
Our current cohort is now full, so we weren’t able to move forward with applications that were still in review, and we’ve emailed everyone affected. While we didn’t have space for more members this cohort, we encourage you to apply when applications open for the next one.
Offers from AI-native companies building on Claude, across sales, design, data, meetings, and engineering. Members redeem each offer with a code in the Claude Console.
Applied AI sessions are live group sessions for members, held every other week in a webinar format. Each one covers a topic and includes an AMA with Anthropic’s Applied AI team. Members get a link to register by email and in the Claude Startups portal.
No. Claude Startups credits apply to the first-party Claude API through Claude Console. They can’t be used on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or other third-party platforms.
You may be eligible to receive up to $100K in additional API credits, claimed through your VC.
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