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About Us Our mission and vision.: /about/
About Us: /about/
Ambassador Program Join our developer advocates.: /programs/ambassador/
Articles Technical articles and insights.: /articles/
Articles: /articles/
Blog Updates and engineering deep-dives.: /blog/
Blog: /blog/
Careers Join our growing team.: /careers/
Careers: /careers/
Changelog: /changelog/
Changelogs Platform updates and releases.: /changelog/
Changelogs: /changelog/
Company Jul 13, 2026 LegionEdge launches the Design Initiative: /news/design-initiative/
Company Jul 14, 2026 The Infrastructure Initiative: from commit to production: /news/infrastructure-initiative/
Company Jul 15, 2026 Building the Agent Command System: /news/agent-command-system/
Company Jul 16, 2026 LegionEdge acquires Haze: /news/legionedge-acquires-haze/
Contact Get in touch with us.: /contact/
Contact: /contact/
Datasets: /datasets/
Docs Quickstart, models, fine-tuning, endpoints.: /docs/
Docs: /docs/
Event Program Host events and workshops.: /programs/events/
Events Workshops, meetups, and conferences.: /events/
Events: /events/
Foltrac Multi-cloud deployment with autonomous operations.: /products/foltrac/
Get started: https://auth.legionedge.ai/signup?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.legionedge.ai%2F
Go to console: https://cloud.legionedge.ai/
Inference Quantization, distillation, and inference optimization.: /services/inference/
Model Training Custom training runs built on our efficient methods.: /services/model-training/
Multi-cloud deployment with autonomous operations.: /products/foltrac/
News: /news/
Nokuva The premier AI-native design editor.: /products/nokuva/
Overview: /products/foltrac/
Overview: /products/nokuva/
Overview: /products/tavoc/
Partner Program Build and grow with us.: /programs/partner/
Partners Our technology partners.: /partners/
Partners: /partners/
Partnership Aug 20, 2026 LegionEdge partners with Vultr Vultr becomes a compute partner for our training and serving — and the stage where we took our specialization work public at Ai4 2026.: /news/vultr-partnership/
Partnership Aug 20, 2026 LegionEdge partners with Vultr: /news/vultr-partnership/
Partnership Jul 18, 2026 LegionEdge partners with Google Cloud: /news/google-cloud-partnership/
Pricing Rate cards for training, datasets, and compute.: /pricing/
Pricing: /pricing/
Privacy Policy: /privacy/
Product Jul 17, 2026 LegionEdge launches LegionEdge Cloud: /news/legionedge-cloud/
Products: /products/
Protocol Design AI-native interfaces designed for your systems.: /services/protocol-design/
Research Overview: /research/
Research Partnerships Collaborate with our lab on open problems.: /services/research-partnerships/
Research: /research/
Resources: /docs/
Rust-native code platform: IDE and desktop apps.: /products/tavoc/
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Startup Program Resources for early-stage startups.: /programs/startup/
Startup Program Up to $25k in credits for early-stage teams.: /programs/startup/
Synthetic Data Custom datasets for training and evaluation.: /datasets/
Talk to Sales Scope a dataset or training engagement.: /contact/
Tavoc Rust-native code platform: IDE and desktop apps.: /products/tavoc/
Terms of Service: /terms/
The premier AI-native design editor.: /products/nokuva/
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Startup Program · LegionEdge
Products
Products
Nokuva
The premier AI-native design editor.
Tavoc
Rust-native code platform: IDE and desktop apps.
Foltrac
Multi-cloud deployment with autonomous operations.
Services
Synthetic Data
Custom datasets for training and evaluation.
Model Training
Custom training runs built on our efficient methods.
Inference
Quantization, distillation, and inference optimization.
Protocol Design
AI-native interfaces designed for your systems.
Research Partnerships
Collaborate with our lab on open problems.
Solutions
Pricing
Rate cards for training, datasets, and compute.
Startup Program
Up to $25k in credits for early-stage teams.
Talk to Sales
Scope a dataset or training engagement.
Research
No published
research
.
Resources
Resources
Docs
Quickstart, models, fine-tuning, endpoints.
Blog
Updates and engineering deep-dives.
Articles
Technical articles and insights.
Changelogs
Platform updates and releases.
Events
Workshops, meetups, and conferences.
Programs
Startup Program
Resources for early-stage startups.
Ambassador Program
Join our developer advocates.
Partner Program
Build and grow with us.
Event Program
Host events and workshops.
Company
About Us
Our mission and vision.
Careers
Join our growing team.
Partners
Our technology partners.
Contact
Get in touch with us.
News
Latest news
View all
news
Partnership
Aug 20, 2026
LegionEdge partners with Vultr
Vultr becomes a compute partner for our training and serving — and the stage where we took our specialization work public at Ai4 2026.
Partnership
Jul 18, 2026
LegionEdge partners with Google Cloud
Product
Jul 17, 2026
LegionEdge launches LegionEdge Cloud
Company
Jul 16, 2026
LegionEdge acquires Haze
Company
Jul 15, 2026
Building the Agent Command System
Company
Jul 14, 2026
The Infrastructure Initiative: from commit to production
Company
Jul 13, 2026
LegionEdge launches the Design Initiative
Sign in
Get started
Go to console
Products
Products
The premier AI-native design editor.
Rust-native code platform: IDE and desktop apps.
Multi-cloud deployment with autonomous operations.
Services
Synthetic Data
Custom datasets for training and evaluation.
Model Training
Custom training runs built on our efficient methods.
Inference
Quantization, distillation, and inference optimization.
Protocol Design
AI-native interfaces designed for your systems.
Research Partnerships
Collaborate with our lab on open problems.
Solutions
Pricing
Rate cards for training, datasets, and compute.
Startup Program
Up to $25k in credits for early-stage teams.
Talk to Sales
Scope a dataset or training engagement.
Research
No published
research
.
Resources
Resources
Docs
Quickstart, models, fine-tuning, endpoints.
Blog
Updates and engineering deep-dives.
Articles
Technical articles and insights.
Changelogs
Platform updates and releases.
Events
Workshops, meetups, and conferences.
Programs
Startup Program
Resources for early-stage startups.
Ambassador Program
Join our developer advocates.
Partner Program
Build and grow with us.
Event Program
Host events and workshops.
Company
About Us
Our mission and vision.
Careers
Join our growing team.
Partners
Our technology partners.
Contact
Get in touch with us.
News
Partnership
Aug 20, 2026
LegionEdge partners with Vultr
Partnership
Jul 18, 2026
LegionEdge partners with Google Cloud
Product
Jul 17, 2026
LegionEdge launches LegionEdge Cloud
Company
Jul 16, 2026
LegionEdge acquires Haze
Company
Jul 15, 2026
Building the Agent Command System
Company
Jul 14, 2026
The Infrastructure Initiative: from commit to production
Company
Jul 13, 2026
LegionEdge launches the Design Initiative
Sign in
Get started
Go to console
Startup Program
Frontier tooling, priced for the
pre-revenue stage
.
Credits across Nokuva, Tavoc, and Foltrac, direct access to our engineers, and the efficiency research that keeps your inference bill from deciding your runway.
Apply now
See what's included
Term sheet
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Startup Program
No equity. No lock-in. Reviewed by humans.
$25k
in product credits over 12 months
12 mo
of program benefits per batch
1:1
architecture sessions with our engineers
0%
equity taken — it's a program, not a fund
What's included
Built to extend runway, not decorate a
deck
.
01
Product credits
Up to $25k across Nokuva, Tavoc, and Foltrac for 12 months — enough to design, build, and deploy a real product without the tooling line item.
02
Efficiency office hours
Monthly sessions with our efficiency researchers. Bring your inference bill; leave with a distillation or context-compression plan.
03
Architecture reviews
1:1 sessions with the engineers who built our protocols, reviewing your agent architecture before the expensive mistakes are load-bearing.
04
Early access
New protocol drafts, product betas, and dataset releases land in the program cohort before they're public.
05
Founder community
A private channel of program founders building AI-native products, plus quarterly cohort calls with the LegionEdge team.
06
Launch support
Graduating products get a feature in our newsletter and customer-story treatment on this site — real distribution, not a logo wall.
How the program works
A year in the program,
end to end
.
01
Apply
Tell us what you're building and where AI-native tooling fits. Applications take fifteen minutes and are reviewed by a human — usually within a week.
02
Onboard
Accepted teams get credits provisioned, a kickoff architecture session, and an invite to the founder community — all in the first week.
03
Build
Twelve months of credits, office hours, and early access while you ship. We check in quarterly; otherwise we stay out of your way.
04
Graduate
At the end of the batch, teams move to standard pricing with a founder discount — and the ones with a story to tell get the launch feature.
Who it's for
The bar, in plain
terms
.
Pre-seed to Series A, under $5M raised
Fewer than 20 people on the team
Building a product where AI is core, not a feature checkbox
Not a previous participant in the program
Common questions
Q
1
Do you take equity or ask for anything in return?
No equity, no warrants, no exclusivity. We ask for honest product feedback and, if things go well, permission to tell your story.
Q
2
Can we apply if we already use one of your products?
Yes. Existing self-serve customers who meet the criteria are welcome — credits apply to your current workspace.
Q
3
What happens when the 12 months end?
You move to standard pricing with a permanent founder discount. There's no cliff designed to trap you; most graduates scale down before they scale up.
Q
4
We're a solo founder. Is that too early?
No — several of our strongest cohort members were solo at application time. The bar is a real product direction, not headcount.
Apply now
Apply to the Startup Program
.
Tell us about your company and what you're building. We review every application and respond within a week.
No equity, no warrants
Human-reviewed in a week
Free to apply
Application
Application received!
We review every application and will get back to you by email.
About you
Who we'll be talking to — usually a founder.
Name
Work email
Your company
Stage and shape — there are no wrong answers here.
Company
Stage
Pre-seed
Seed
Series A
Bootstrapped
Team size
Solo
2–5
6–10
11–20
What you're building
Links beat essays — point us at the real thing.
What are you building?
Links
Optional
Submit application
Your details go to the team and nowhere else — see our
Privacy Policy
.
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Research Overview
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Company
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