Announcing the Together AI Startup Accelerator, purpose-built for AI Native Apps

Announcing the Together AI Startup Accelerator, purpose-built for AI Native Apps

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Published 10/15/2025

Announcing the Together AI Startup Accelerator, purpose-built for AI Native Apps

Full suite of support, including free platform credits, engineering time and GTM support for selected AI native startups.

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Deveaux Barron, Prem Prakash

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Startups are at the forefront of the transformative AI wave, building AI native apps and delivering novel experiences centered around AI. Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, delivers the full AI engineering experience to build and scale these apps in a reliable and cost effective way. Today, we are excited to launch a program specially designed for startups building AI native apps. The Together AI Startup Accelerator offers a full suite of support to help startups confidently build and scale their apps. This selection-based program offers a combination of platform credits, engineering expertise and GTM support to help these companies throughout their journey. Additionally, we will provide exclusive access to their peer startup community and our VC network to benefit from shared learning and the ecosystem. We are excited that startups, such as Corridor.dev and PlayerZero, are already part of this accelerator and benefiting from it. "We’re excited to be a part of the inaugural cohort of the Together AI Startup Accelerator. We’re looking forward to the partnership with Together AI, which will help advance Corridor’s mission as the security layer for AI coding." — Ashwin Ramaswami, CTO and Co-founder at Corridor Together AI Startup Accelerator The accelerator delivers a range of benefits to startups that are accepted to the program. Compute credits Startups receive up to 50K USD free credits to use on the Together AI platform to build their apps. They can use these credits across serverless inference, fine-tuning, dedicated endpoints, and instant clusters—so experimentation and scaling can happen across various modalities and without prohibitive costs.

Forward-deployed engineering The program offers dedicated time with skilled AI engineers who can offer hands-on help to optimize your architecture, address bottlenecks, and build solutions fit for real-world use cases. These engineers are working across various AI native companies and can apply their learnings to help these startups build their products faster.

Exclusive content Members get access to best practices and knowledge in AI engineering and research, including benchmarking and evaluation resources.

Joint GTM Startups benefit from marketing and co-selling opportunities, with Together AI amplifying go-to-market efforts to a network of over 1M+ AI developers.

Community Founders and engineers at these companies get invited to exclusive events to connect with other founders and fellow innovators for knowledge-sharing and network with research leaders such as Tri Dao, Percy Liang and Ce Zhang.

VC network Participants tap into a robust network of world-class venture capitalists and valuable ecosystem partners.

“Together AI is enabling startups to shape the future of AI-native apps. This accelerator deepens their commitment to helping founders by providing the tools, resources, and support they need to scale." — Mamoon Hamid, partner, Kleiner Perkins. Program Tiers The accelerator tailors its benefits to startups at different stages of growth, with three funding-based tiers: Build

Benefits included:

✔ Up to $15K in free platform credits.

✔ 3 hours of free forward-deployed engineering time.

Eligibility criteria includes: Up to $5M raised

Grow

Benefits included:

✔ Up to $30K in free platform credits.

✔ 6 hours of free forward-deployed engineering time.

Eligibility criteria includes: $5M–$10M raised

Scale

Benefits included:

✔ Up to $50K in free platform credits.

✔ 10 hours of free forward-deployed engineering time.

Eligibility criteria includes: Over $10M raised

No matter the stage, the Together AI Startup Accelerator provides a launchpad for building, growing, and scaling AI startups with best-in-class resources and support for ambitious founders. "We're excited to be a part of the inaugural cohort of the Together AI Startup Accelerator. This accelerator provides us a variety of benefits - from credits and technical resources to GTM support and access to the community. We are looking forward to the partnership with Together AI and building on the AI native cloud" — Ian Smith, Chief of Staff & Head of Strategy, Player Zero Build on the AI Native Cloud If you are a startup building an AI native application, we would love to hear from you. Fill this form and we’ll get back to you. Excited to see what you will build on together.a i.