Nebius for Startups (NVIDIA Inception offer)
Nebius · GPU cloud
$5K$5,000 introductory credits + up to $150,000 in compute discounts as you scale
Nebius AI Cloud gives selected AI-native startups $5,000 in credits for training/inference plus up to $150K in compute discounts, an internal advocate and co-GTM. Selection is currently limited to startups with $5M+ in venture backing.
Key terms
- Credits currently available only through Nebius partner VCs to startups with $5M+ raised (apply page: acceptance 'through a Nebius VC partner only'); others are waitlisted
- Must be VC- or accelerator-backed and building an AI-enabled product
- Working website, company email, incorporated under 5–7 years ago (pages differ)
- Excluded: consultancies, resellers, cloud providers, crypto-only businesses, public companies
- Manually reviewed; response times not guaranteed
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- seed, series-a, growth
- Max company age
- 7 years
- Min funding raised
- $5M
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- Yes
- Needs partner referral code
- Yes
- Must be incorporated
- Yes
- AI focus required
- Yes
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Not eligible
Also required
- Main startups page says incorporated <5 years; Inception offer page says <7 years
- Free founder community open to all AI startups
How to apply
Confirm your fund is a Nebius VC partner, then apply via the Nebius for Startups page with a company email. Questions: [email protected].
- Benefit
- mixed
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- —
- Credit validity
- —
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-22 · source