Create with Claude today. Lead your market tomorrow.
Claude brings your startup’s boldest ideas to life. Access the same frontier AI trusted by industry leaders to transform ambitious concepts into market advantages. We support your journey with dedicated credits, resources, and a community. Available now through our VC partners.
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How we support venture-backed startups
For startups working with our VC partners, our program provides the API credits, rate limits, and resources you need to build with Claude.
Free API credits
Free credits, so you can experiment and build with confidence
Priority rate limits
Our highest tier of publicly available rate limits ensures smooth operation as you grow
Community
Invitations to exclusive founder events and workshops
Technology that works as hard as you do
Claude Developer Platform and Console
- One platform to build, test, and iterate on your AI deployment
- Build faster with pre-built cookbooks and guides
- Optimize for intelligence and cost with prompt caching
Claude Code
- Embed Claude directly in your development environment
- Seamless integration with your terminal and existing dev tools
- Code with AI assistance without breaking your workflow
Claude
- Collaborate effectively with intuitive team workspaces and organized projects
- Create and edit code, documents, and designs with interactive Artifacts
- Connect Claude to your tools for context-aware assistance
- Create meaningful work outputs with Claude’s reasoning capabilities
Top portfolio companies from Bain Capital build with Claude
“Our mission is to empower the next billion software creators. We say software creators because we don’t think it’s just going to be developers. Anyone should be able to create software.”
“We’re automating the mundane. 80% of Sales work today is manual, laborious, data work. In the era of AI, humans can focus on truly human, creative work, and we can leave the data work in the hands of AI.”
“We’re trying to model human cognition. We need systems that are agentic in nature. They have to have planning, subgoal decomposition, reflection on failure, refinement of tasks as they act. They need memory, both short-term and long-term. They need to be able to retrieve information and use tools. Anthropic and Claude have consistently delivered what we need to get there.”
“Claude Sonnet is the enabling technology that made this product possible, period.”
“We want to serve the best AI and make sure that we give such a good experience to our users that they feel like they can’t get it anywhere else.”
“Claude consistently ranks among the most accurate generative AI models available, and continues to push innovation forward with each update.”
"We’re seeing lots of people that are close to business problems now being empowered to drive execution independently with our AI Software Engineer—it’s 20 times faster than writing the code themselves"
“Claude Sonnet 4 surpasses Sonnet 3.7 with higher success rates, more surgical code edits, and more tightly scoped changes. It works more carefully through complex tasks and delivers superior code quality—making it the ideal choice as the primary coding model in Augment Code.”
Resources for startups
FAQ
The program is available to startups working with Anthropic’s VC partners. To qualify, your company must be an early-stage startup backed by one of our partner venture capital firms.
We recommend checking with your investors directly to determine if they are Anthropic partners.
Reach out to your investors to get their unique program application link.
Program participants receive exclusive invitations to startup-focused events, including workshops, webinars, and networking opportunities designed specifically for AI founders.
The program offers access to educational resources tailored for AI founders, including best practices for implementing AI, technical documentation, case studies, and implementation guides.
Participants gain opportunities to connect with Anthropic team members through office hours, community events, and direct communication channels for technical support and guidance.
Yes, the program is specifically designed to help startups build and scale commercial applications using Claude’s capabilities.
After you’ve used your allocated credits, you can transition to standard API pricing. Program participants may receive guidance on optimizing usage and costs as they scale.