About this offer
Brilliant find for any indie hackers, solo devs, early-stage founders, and side-project builders in the UK currently scaling with AI. Anthropic has opened up their Claude for Startups program globally, and crucially you do not need to be VC-backed to qualifybootstrapped, pre-seed, and early-stage side projects are fully eligible.
If accepted, you get a massive bundle of developer resources entirely free of charge to help build and ship faster:
1 Year of Claude Team: Free for up to 5 Premium seats (if youre new to Claude Team).
$1,000 API Credits: First-party Claude Console API credits (valid for 6 months, perfect for building agents, apps, and automation tools).
Claude Startup Stack: Up to $45,000 in partner perks and discounts from top-tier tools built on Claude (including credits for ElevenLabs, ClickHouse, Gamma, Hex, Firecrawl, Granola, and more).
Direct Support: Access to virtual office hours with Anthropics Applied AI engineering team, plus invites to founder meetups and community events.
Quick Eligibility Checklist:
Founded in the last 5 years OR funded in the last 2 years.
A Claude Console account and a company email matching your domain.
Open to all structuresno venture capital backing is required to apply.
Simply sign in to your Claude Console account and submit a brief description of what youre building. Most applications are approved within minutes, though some go to manual review (taking 23 business days).
