Modal for Startups
The fastest-moving startups rely on Modal to build, ship and scale their AI workloads. Apply to get free credits, technical support, and join a growing community.
Why Choose Modal for Your Startup?
Program Credits
Unlock thousands of free GPU credits to supercharge your startup.
Technical and GTM support
Direct access to Modal's engineering team for technical support and GTM amplification on launches and raises.
Community of founders
Join an exclusive network of founders building complex AI applications on Modal, through online and in-person events
Ship faster
Instant GPUs and code-first workflows turn ideas into production systems in hours.
Iterate at full-speed
Shorten the loop between experiment, deploy, measure, and refine across your AI system.
Scale without ops
Autoscaling compute and orchestration handle growth without clusters, schedulers, or maintenance.
“Modal allowed us to go form an idea on Monday to something live on Tuesday. From 70% of an engineer’s time spent in infrastructure to less than 10% -- that’s a huge delta.”
Lina Colucci, CEO and Co-founder, Lemon Slice
“Leveraging Modal allowed us to focus on what we do best – training state of the art video generation models – without worrying about MLops and infrastructure.”
Prady Modukuru, CEO
“Modal has been a really nice, scalable solution for us. We don’t have to worry about pre-allocating GPUs weeks ahead of time -- we just spin it up and it works.”
Alex Cannan, ML Team Lead
Eligibility & Benefits
Customers that are new to Modal and meet the below requirements are eligible to apply. Credits are a one-time grant and you may not reapply once you have received credits in a given tier.
Seed to Series A
Up to $25k credits for rising startups
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Raised any amount of VC funding from our VC partner network
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Raised VC funding >$1m from any fund
Scaling and Series B +
Custom for rapidly growing AI-native companies
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Raised VC funding > $30m or post-series B
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VC is part of our partner network
Venture Capital Funds in Our Network
Want to partner with Modal as a VC fund? Reach out to startups@modal.com
See the full list of Modal's VC partners in the FAQs below.
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