Introducing the LiveKit Startup Program: Your whole stack, on us

LiveKit has launched a Startup Program aimed at helping eligible early-stage companies develop and deploy voice, video, and physical AI agents without managing multiple model-provider accounts, API keys, billing systems, or integrations. The program offers approximately $23,000 in value, including $7,000 in inference credits across partners such as Deepgram, Inworld, Rime, Fish Audio, AssemblyAI, Gradium, and LiveKit-hosted Gemma models, one year of the $500-per-month LiveKit Cloud Scale plan, and an additional $10,000 in Cloud credits. Through LiveKit Inference, participants can test speech-to-text, language, and text-to-speech models by changing configuration settings while credits are automatically applied, and services revert to standard rates if a credit pool is exhausted. The Scale plan supports production deployment with agent session capacity, concurrency, region pinning, access controls, metrics exports, custom voices, and discounted inference, while LiveKit emphasizes SOC 2 Type II compliance and default zero data retention for prompts, audio, and outputs. Applicants generally must have fewer than 50 employees, less than $5 million raised, a live or imminent product centered on voice, video, or physical AI, and an identifiable founding team.

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