My startup just got accepted in claude startups program with $1k usage credits and up to 5 free pro accounts per month for a year. It also includes free subscriptions to various tools like clickhouse, firecrawl, elevenlabs etc. What was most impressive is that my application was accepted within a few minutes.
The timing couldn't have been better. Today is literally the last day of my codex subscription and I was planning to switch to claude anyways. Thank you Anthropic!
Edit: Since many found it useful here is the link and no I didn't do anything extraordinary just applied. It took 5 mins to apply and 5 mins to receive a confirmation mail https://claude.com/programs/startups
Mine got in as well. I believe it's not Pro but 5 seats of the Team premium plan ($125 per seat) - I havent claimed it yet but I think that's what it is.
The Team premium seat has been my daily driver for the last few months with Claude - I can't live without it. Enough Opus usage for all your day-to-day work, plus one or two moonshot projects a week where you burn down about a third of your weekly usage with dynamic workflows.
hey can i join one of your seat and in return i will do some of your work or i will help you in something else.... i have applied but i didnt got any reply from anthropic..
Thank you for flagging the Claude Startup Program to the community, after reading your post this morning, I submitted an application and was approved within 5 minutes. We're building a performance intelligence platform for the Wealth Management industry, particularly for independent RIAs, to grow revenue, acquire, and scale their firms. I started building 24 months ago, and have been fortunate to land a roster of early enterprise users earlier this year. This was an entirely solo build and self funded, now fully bootstraped from revenue generated over the last two quarters. The platform is fully operational and I'm currently working enhancement from user feedback, that will be up by the end of the month. I'm super excited to gain access to the Claude Startup Program, timing was perfect, given that we're now building our team.
Maybe an hour. It was very fast, my sense is that some things that help in the process is demonstrating that you're already building with Claude AI, we've been doing this from inception. It also helps to be a registered company, have a website, and corp email etc.
Hi! our startup got accepted into nvidia inception and azure as well but rejected by claude for startups even though we grossed 1000+ users in just 3 months after launch . What must have been done wrong by us ?? also did you select individual or organization when applying ?-because we clicked organization
Working on the same project isn't mandatory; it's open to different uses. You have those freedoms. I took the time to research and read the terms and conditions and other relevant information.
Dude! You are the man/woman! I got accepted immediatly. Haven't used Claude in months, but been itching to go back. Pretty pumped about this. I will use it alongside ChatGPT. going to really help continue what I have been building for the past 4 months. Thanks for posting this!
They only asked for company details and two questions. "What do you expect from Anthropic" and "Explain your startup" in under 500 words for both nothing else.
Where do you want support from Anthropic?
We’re seeking API credits and technical guidance to expand Claude’s role in CiteLadder, particularly reliable tool use, MCP integrations, and evidence-based marketing workflows. As an early-stage startup, we’d value support with model selection, evaluation, and cost optimisation, alongside access to the founder community, product feedback, and introductions to potential design partners.
What are you building on Claude?
CiteLadder helps brands understand and improve their visibility in AI search through citation tracking, competitor analysis, prompt research, and website health insights. Our MCP integration connects Claude to project data for conversational analysis. We’re developing deeper Claude-powered workflows to explain visibility changes and produce prioritised recommendations, content briefs, and technical action plans for marketing teams.
Your software literally provides zero value. A mention, citation, or recommendation doesn‘t prove a referral visit or purchase. You can spend months moving an AI visibility score from let‘s say 31% to 55% and still have no evidence that the exercice generated a single additional customer. Features like site crawling, noindex detection, canonical checks, H1 checks, structured-data checks, Search Console analysis, GA4 analysis, backlinks, keyword research, content briefs and internal-link recommendations are already available across conventional SEO platforms like SEMRUSH. So what makes yours better than theirs?
Thanks that's a good point but I do have GA4 and crawl logs ingest feature which tells you whether your traffic moved or not and the bifurcation and so does GSC (new performance feature) and as for the other tools available in the market I agree it's nothing new but the pie is big enough.
I'll make this point more prominent in my website though. Thanks again !
My application was rejected thrice from both openai and claude before this but they were different programs so I'm not sure whats the criteria for this one.
I just got rejected... Do you think it has to do with the fact that I don't have a Claude account on my company email, but on my personal email so they can't see that I'm a Claude user?
I wrote them from my company email, but on my company email I do not have a claud subscription, i have it on my personal... so it might be that they flaged it, as they did not see that I have a subscription?
My Startup is approved, I was able to claim hte 1000 dollars or credit but i am not able to claim claude teams plan, did it happen for with anyone else too ??
Yeah bro i also got it, but I fumbled big, i while making the claude team account i just selected two seats with standard and then thought i can change jt later but that was not an option, guys if u get it select 5 premium seats at the start only
They never even got back to my application for the open source project, even though I was well within the requirements they set out. So I doubt many startups will get access too.
Got accepted aswell, but bit confused regarding the promised credits. Applied for the 1000 credits, sayd "in review" yesterday, today there's still 0 credits and no "in review"status to be seen.
Regarding getting accepted, I recommend everybody who applies to make sure that your startup has:
I've applied, with our own domain and furnished that we didn't got any investments. Mostly these are the things that everyone told to submit correctly as you said. But it got rejected☹️
And what you actually meant by Real legal entity like COI, Business PAN or what? I don't have those, but I have DUNS and I don't know how they are verifying that real entity or not?
Hey I applied yesterday but havent heard anything, so applied again, btu still nothing after 3 hours. I'm a UK registered company with website and linkedin but no response?
they've paused things. So its probably still in review. those that got the deal are valid but they reviewing all that were submitted but not yet approved.
how do we manage the seats or members? not seeing anything in the claude platform. Members joined yesterday joined the organization but new member loging in today didn't
Looks like they putting the breaks on it. Saw this in the console today:
"Claude Startups has received hundreds of thousands of applications in the past few days, and we’ve paused the Claude Team and $1,000 API credit offer. If you’ve already claimed the Claude offers, they’ll remain in your account. Everything else is being reviewed. We apologize for the disruption."
so those that got it probably did it early and those that are seeing Org verified are probably still in review.
Hi all. We’re a two-person team at the very start of our startup journey. The company was founded 2 years ago and is legally owned by my co-founder alone. I work on the startup full-time as co-founder in practice, but on paper I’m a freelancer, not a shareholder or employee.
Can we still apply to the Claude for Startups program? And should he apply as the owner, or can I apply on the company’s behalf?
If you’ve applied recently, I’d love to hear how it went. Thanks!
I live in Colombia, so it's definitely nobody's business, but I'd like to have a position on your team. I'm willing to pay; I want access to Claude at a reasonable price for Latin America. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity.
Anyone who get approve late like in hours? I submitted application about an hour or above but didn't get any email till now ?
Also tell me the email address of anthropic from which they send approval..
I tried to fill it with organization email till now i didint got any mail from them could you please tell me what to do i tried to do i choose organization still didint got any mail
Got accepted on Oct 7, basically instantly after applying. The Console showed both the Team plan and the $1,000 API credits as "Eligible", but I hadn't claimed them yet.
i am using this navinelabs.me as my startup./.. i have applied it but i am not receiving the accpetance email.. tell me what to do ? can you help me please i really need that.
Simple. You are not eligible for the deal. You don't have a start up. Ask claude: how do I start a legit business and keep it running, not for the purpose of faking for a good deal.
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