At Cohere, we are focused on providing secure and scalable AI solutions that address real-world business challenges for companies of all sizes, from the world’s largest enterprises to rapidly growing startups.

For early-stage startups with small teams and limited resources, incorporating secure AI into their technology stacks is an imperative for innovation and gaining a competitive edge in their markets. Every minute spent on rote tasks that could otherwise be automated can lead to major delays in reaching key milestones in a startup’s growth journey. For these companies, AI is a game changer, allowing teams to focus on the tasks that provide the most value to the business.

At the same time, deploying a new and emerging technology can be as daunting as it is exciting. That’s why we are launching the Cohere Startup Program – the evolution of our initial beta program working with early-stage companies.

We know first-hand the benefits that AI can provide to a small team, and we want to be a part of the success stories for startups adopting and building with AI. Cohere has a strong history of supporting startups building cutting-edge solutions with our AI technology, such as Borderless AI revolutionizing the global HR industry or Atomicwork disrupting the enterprise IT space. With this program, Cohere is building on this effort and laying the groundwork to help a growing number of startups across the globe reach their full potential by leveraging AI to boost productivity and efficiency.

Fostering Innovation

The Cohere Startup Program supports ambitious, early-stage startups looking to make the most out of AI to successfully scale their businesses. This will empower greater innovation and adoption of AI technology by providing participants with discounted access to Cohere’s frontier AI models, valuable marketing exposure, access to our technical experts, and a platform to share their journey.

For qualified early-stage startups — those with Series B funding or below — the Cohere Startup Program offers exclusive access to the industry-leading AI models on our platform at a 25% discount for an entire year. This allows companies to kickstart their AI capabilities securely and integrate them across departments, teams, and products to streamline operations at an affordable cost.

Through this program, startups can build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enabled AI assistants, enhance search capabilities, power content moderation systems, and more useful applications to unlock the many practical benefits of AI for their businesses. We've already seen many promising business use cases for AI by working with customers to tackle workflows across a range of business functions like HR, customer support, finance, sales, and marketing in a range of sectors.

Showcasing Success

As startups join the Cohere Startup Program, we want to showcase their success and how AI has impacted their business. As a benefit of the program, we will include company logos and business use cases on our website, offering exposure to our global audience of potential investors, customers, and industry leaders. Beyond that, we will also offer program participants opportunities for additional visibility through joint webinars and other co-marketing opportunities. This will spotlight the incredible work each company is doing with the help of Cohere’s AI technology.

How to Apply

If you’re already working on interesting AI applications or products and hitting roadblocks where Cohere’s technology could help, the Cohere Startup Program could be a good fit for your company. Our team will review each application to determine if our program is the right fit, and then contact qualified companies with next steps to begin their journey with Cohere.

Note: Applications are now closed for 2024.

Cohere Launches Startup Program to Empower Early-Stage AI Innovation