Chalk for Startups

Access to hands-on forward-deployed engineers, preferred pricing, GTM amplification and a founder community so you can move faster and scale with Chalk: the platform to build and ship with real-time data.

Backed by leading investors

What accepted teams get

More than infrastructure. You get the platform and resources to build faster, iterate in production, and spend less time on the work behind the scenes.

Hands-on forward-deployed support

Work directly with Chalk's forward-deployed engineers, the people closest to the platform. Real answers and real help getting your models and agents into production.

Preferred pricing

Bring us your architecture. We'll help you design for scale, with preferred pricing built to support you from first deployment through hyper-growth.

GTM amplification

When you launch or raise, we help you reach a wider audience of AI builders and founders.

Founder network and events

Join a community of technical founders solving hard problems, with events and introductions that compound over time.

Hands-on forward-deployed support

Work directly with Chalk's forward-deployed engineers, the people closest to the platform. Real answers and real help getting your models and agents into production.

Preferred pricing

Bring us your architecture. We'll help you design for scale, with preferred pricing built to support you from first deployment through hyper-growth.

GTM amplification

When you launch or raise, we help you reach a wider audience of AI builders and founders.

Founder network and events

Join a community of technical founders solving hard problems, with events and introductions that compound over time.

Hands-on forward-deployed support

Work directly with Chalk's forward-deployed engineers, the people closest to the platform. Real answers and real help getting your models and agents into production.

Preferred pricing

Bring us your architecture. We'll help you design for scale, with preferred pricing built to support you from first deployment through hyper-growth.

GTM amplification

When you launch or raise, we help you reach a wider audience of AI builders and founders.

Founder network and events

Join a community of technical founders solving hard problems, with events and introductions that compound over time.

Who can apply

Chalk for Startups is for technical teams building the next generation of applications. Apply if:

AI or ML is core to what you're building.
You've raised funding - Seed, Series A or B.
You're new to Chalk.

Not sure you're a fit? Start a conversation and we'll figure it out together.

How it works

Apply.

Tell us about your team and what you're building. It takes a few minutes.

Scoping Call.

We talk through your stack, your real-time use cases, and where we can help.

Your first 30 days.

Accepted teams get up and running fast. Put your first real-time workloads into production on Chalk, and start building with our engineers alongside you.

Built to grow with you

Chalk for Startups is designed to meet you at the build moment and scale with your team. We'll walk through the details on your scoping call.

Explore all of Chalk's solutions

Agent Deployment

Generate temporally-consistent context in your cloud.

LLM Toolchain

Unify prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, and inference to ship LLMs faster.

Growth decisioning

Power real-time decisioning systems to personalize, predict, and optimize revenue across customer lifecycles.

Recommender systems

Serve recommendations that reflect real-time behavior and semantic similarity across dynamic inventories.

Agent Deployment

Generate temporally-consistent context in your cloud.

LLM Toolchain

Unify prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, and inference to ship LLMs faster.

Growth decisioning

Power real-time decisioning systems to personalize, predict, and optimize revenue across customer lifecycles.

Recommender systems

Serve recommendations that reflect real-time behavior and semantic similarity across dynamic inventories.

Agent Deployment

Generate temporally-consistent context in your cloud.

LLM Toolchain

Unify prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, and inference to ship LLMs faster.

Growth decisioning

Power real-time decisioning systems to personalize, predict, and optimize revenue across customer lifecycles.

Recommender systems

Serve recommendations that reflect real-time behavior and semantic similarity across dynamic inventories.

FAQ

Technical teams building AI or ML into the core of their product, from your first raise through Series B. If real-time data is central to what you're building, we want to talk.

Ready to apply?

Tell us what you're working on and we'll take it from there.