Speechmatics Startup Program
Speechmatics · Voice AI
$50KUp to $50,000 in usage credits + office hours and co-marketing
Speech-to-text (real-time and batch), TTS and on-prem usage credits for early-stage voice-AI startups.
Key terms
- Total funding under $10M (exceptions considered case by case)
- Functional MVP in production or launching within 1–2 months
- Companies on a paid Speechmatics enterprise plan excluded (Free/Pro users eligible)
- Capped at 20 startups per cohort; 30-minute call before decision
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- pre-seed, seed, series-a
- Max funding raised
- $10M
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- Yes
- AI focus required
- Yes
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Not eligible
Also required
- Voice AI must be central to the product
- Active dev team and defined ASR use case
- Bonus for regulated industries, underrepresented languages, accessibility
How to apply
Click Apply Now on the program page; VCs/accelerators can email [email protected] for portfolio terms.
- Benefit
- credits
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- A few days
- Credit validity
- Not stated
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-22 · source