You.com Startup Grant
You.com · Search API
$1KUp to $1,000 in API credits (plus $100 sign-up credit)
Web search, contents and research API credits for small AI-native startups.
Key terms
- Fewer than 25 employees; pre-seed through Series A
- Corporate email required
- Credits expire after 6 months, then usage-based pricing
- Priority review for YC, Techstars, NVIDIA Inception, AI Grant, Georgian and Radical Ventures portfolios
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- pre-seed, seed, series-a
- 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
- Fewer than 25 employees
- Needs real-time web search / retrieval / research
How to apply
Complete the 2-minute online form.
- Benefit
- credits
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- Usually within 48 hours
- Credit validity
- 6 months
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-22 · source