BEE for Startups

Build your AI-native startup on Bee.

Credits, architecture review, and a direct line to the Bee engineering team — for early- stage companies shipping AI products on Bee. We back the founders we want to build with long-term, not the largest mailing list.

A VC firm investing in AI-native startups instead? See the VC Partner Program.

Up to $25,000 in Bee credits

Credit awards run from $1,000 (pre-seed / pre-launch) to $25,000 (Series A building on Hive / Swarm / Enclave). Credits land in the standard credit_ledger and burn down against any tier — same plumbing every paying customer uses.

Architecture review

A 60-minute call with a Bee engineer covering tier choice, RAG design, prompt-injection guard placement, and post-quantum boundary. Real engineering input, not a sales pitch.

Featured on /platform

Accepted companies are listed on the Bee platform page (logo + one-line) on launch. Optional case study after 90 days in production.

Compliance head-start

Pre-built Order Form templates, sub-processor list, security questionnaire answers, and the DPA — ready to ship to your first enterprise prospect on day one.

Who should apply

· AI-native startup, founded within the last 5 years
· $0 – $25M total raised
· 1 – 100 employees
· Building on Bee or seriously evaluating Bee for a production workload
· A founder or co-founder is willing to be the primary contact

We make exceptions where it’s obviously the right call (later-stage spin-outs, agentic-AI research labs, strategic mid-market customers). Apply anyway and tell us why.

Encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3). Confidential review.Typical response: 5 business days.

Company

Company name *

Website *

HQ country / region *

Company age *

Stage *

Total raised *

Headcount *

Bee usage

Status on Bee *

Primary tier you'll use *

Credit ask for the next 3 months (USD) *

We don't auto-grant — the number you enter is a starting point for the conversation. Awards run from $1 000 to $25 000 by stage and use-case fit, with cell/brood-tier beneficiaries scaled lower than hive/swarm.

Product

What does your company do? (one-paragraph pitch) *

What will you use Bee for? Be specific (which tier, which features) *

Why Bee over a generic LLM provider? (optional)

Founder / primary contact

Full name *

Title / role *

Email *

How did you hear about Bee?

Routing telemetry (optional)

Bee’s routing layer (model choice, fallback chain, latency budgets) improves with more workload diversity. You can optionally opt-in to share anonymised routing metadata — model picked, time-to-first-token, success/error class, prompt/response length. Prompt and response content never leaves your tenant under this opt-in; it remains Customer Data under the standard Privacy Policy.

Yes — opt in to share anonymised routing telemetry (model choices, latency, success/error) to help improve Bee's routing and reliability for everyone.No — I'll join the program with the standard Bee privacy posture (default).

AcceptanceI agree to the Bee Terms of Service.I agree to the BEE for Startups Program Terms. I understand acceptance and credit awards are at Bee’s sole discretion.

We typically respond within 5 business days. All applications are confidential.

Note on eligibility & awards

Acceptance and credit awards are at Bee’s sole discretion. We weigh, among other things, founder background, traction, AI use-case fit, and the maturity of your security posture. Bee reserves the right to modify these criteria or reject any application without providing specific reasons. Submitting an application does not create any right of participation, nor any entitlement to credit grants — those are granted (and may be clawed back for material misuse) per the Program Terms.

By submitting information through the form above, you agree to BEE’s Terms of Service and the BEE for Startups Program Terms.