Roboflow Launches 'Roboflow for Startups', Sponsors Vercel AI Accelerator

Roboflow for Startups

Today, we’re announcing the Accelerator Partner Program within Roboflow for Startups (opens in a new tab), a new initiative designed to support early-stage startups using computer vision.

If you’re part of a participating accelerator (like Y Combinator, Vercel AI Accelerator, Sequoia Arc, or others) you may be eligible for our offer*, which includes:

• 1 Free Year on Core Plan ($948 value)
• Community support
• Optional co-marketing to our audience of 1M+ developers

 *To be eligible, you must be a new customer with less than $5M in funding.

Thousands of startups already use Roboflow to develop and deploy visual AI applications.

“We spin up [Roboflow], train overnight, and the next morning it works.” — Rian McDonnell, Co-Founder, Flovision (opens in a new tab)

“Roboflow’s data management tools far surpassed any of the other tools we evaluated in the computer vision space.” — Wade Norris, Co-Founder & CEO, SnapCalorie (opens in a new tab) (YC S21)

“Roboflow has simplified the process of state-of-the-art computer vision for our team.” — Shawn Patel, Co-Founder & CTO, Almond (opens in a new tab)

See the love on our Wall of Love (opens in a new tab).

Vercel AI Accelerator & Demo Day

Last week, Vercel hosted a Demo Day for the second cohort of their AI Accelerator, which Roboflow was proud to support as a program sponsor alongside Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity and other AI heavyweights.

The Vercel AI Accelerator (opens in a new tab) is a 6-week program helping early-stage founders build and scale AI-native companies. This cohort featured 40 teams, with 26 presenting at Demo Day. Roboflow contributed $150,000 in platform credits to help participants bring computer vision products to market faster — and Joseph was there to judge teams tackling everything from AI-powered code testing to air cargo automation.

We’re excited to support the Vercel AI Accelerator as part of our Roboflow for Startups (opens in a new tab) initiative.

Meet the Demo Day Winners

The Demo Day showcased ambitious, technical founders reimagining the world with AI.

These three teams took top honors:

Stably (opens in a new tab) – AI-powered end-to-end code testing (YC W22), presented by Jinjing Liang and Neil Parker

Belli AI (opens in a new tab) – Software for global air cargo logistics, presented by Jeff Pan

JigsawStack (opens in a new tab) – Suite of custom small AI models for specialized use cases, presented by Win Cheng

All presenters and participants received a free year of Roboflow, which is a deal we include in our Accelerator Partner Program within Roboflow for Startups (opens in a new tab).

Ready to Build?

Big thanks to Alli Pope (opens in a new tab) and Guillermo Rauch (opens in a new tab) for including us in the festivities — we’re thrilled to support the builders of tomorrow.

Visit startups.roboflow.com (opens in a new tab) and - for eligible startups - check with your program manager to redeem our offer.