# Introducing Corti for Startups

> Up to $5,000 in credits for early-stage teams building the future of healthcare AI applications.

*Ryan Ackell · 2026-05-13* — [https://corti.ai/blog/introducing-corti-for-startups](https://corti.ai/blog/introducing-corti-for-startups)

## Key takeaways

- Corti is introducing a global Startup Acceleration Program, open to early-stage teams from pre-seed through Series B building healthcare AI applications.
- Accepted startups receive up to $5,000 in API credits valid for 12 months, direct access to Corti's clinical AI models, and dedicated support from the team that built them.
- 85% of healthcare AI spend in 2025 goes to startups. The window to establish durable positions is open now.
- Applications take under five minutes. [Apply today.](https://corti.ai/corti-for-startups)

Healthcare has thousands of billion-dollar problems, and no single company will solve them. The teams that will are being built right now. Today we’re launching Corti for Startups to back them.

**Corti for Startups gives early-stage teams up to $5,000 in API credits across the full Corti platform**, plus direct support from the engineers who built it.

[Applications are open now](https://corti.ai/corti-for-startups).

## Healthcare runs on old software

Healthcare is one of the largest industries in the world and one of the most broken. In the US it accounts for nearly a fifth of GDP, and the software, workflows, and admin that run it were built decades ago, before smartphones, cloud, or large language models.

The cost shows up in the work. Clinicians spend almost half their time documenting care instead of delivering it ([Sinsky et al.](https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M16-0961)). Patients fall through gaps between systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Researchers wait months for data that should take hours. Entire care pathways still run on fax machines. The opportunity here is structural.

## Founders closest to the problem

No single company will build all of this. The founders closest to each problem will.

Healthcare is not one market. It is thousands of distinct workflows, each with its own clinical context, regulation, reimbursement, and patient population. The market map below, from our partners at byFounders, makes the point: medical coding, imaging, clinical search, patient coordination, decision support, data structuring, consumer-facing AI. Dozens of companies in each, and this is only the surface.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zrkruehe/production/717c2962cc885418aa00d99996e9012d84733629-1600x1196.png?w=1600&auto=format)

*ByFounders The Future of Healthcare: Personalized, Human-Centered & AI-augmented (link)*

The ED physician logging two hours of documentation after every shift. The coding team reviewing charts by hand that should have been processed automatically. The prior-auth queue delaying care because two systems can’t talk. Every one of those failures is a product, and every product needs a founder who understands the failure deeply enough to fix it.

That understanding doesn’t come from a platform team studying the problem from the outside. It comes from years inside a health system, a billing department, a specialty clinic, a research institution. Healthcare won’t be transformed by one company. It’ll be built by hundreds of teams, each solving one specific problem with domain knowledge a generalist can’t replicate.

Those founders are out there. Many are already building on Corti. We want to work with the rest.

## How Corti for Startups works

[Corti for Startups](https://corti.ai/corti-for-startups) is global by design. Healthcare is a global challenge and the founders solving it are everywhere. The program is open to early-stage teams anywhere, from pre-seed through Series B, building healthcare AI.

Accepted startups get up to $5,000 in API credits, valid for 12 months across the full platform. They also get dedicated time with Corti’s AI team to scope their architecture, founder-led webinars on the roadmap and the industry, and invitations to Corti events in New York, Copenhagen, London, and Berlin.

For funds and accelerators, we’re building a VC partner track that fast-tracks portfolio companies into the program.

Applications take under five minutes. We review every submission and respond within a week.

The market is already moving. Menlo Ventures reports that 85% of healthcare AI spend in 2025 goes to startups, not incumbents, because the buying cycles are faster, the integrations cheaper, and the ROI clearer. The window for founders to establish durable positions is open now.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zrkruehe/production/f2797f087fdd93ba9ae88cbe2de15c0656b1a251-2560x1732.webp?w=1600&auto=format)

*Menlo Ventures 2025: The State of AI in Healthcare*

## Who should apply

The teams that will reshape healthcare are building right now: a small team in Copenhagen building ambient documentation for Danish GPs; a founder in São Paulo who spent years in a hospital billing department and knows exactly where the revenue cycle fails; a researcher in London who came out of the NHS with a specific idea about how clinical decision support should work.

They don’t need another generic AI platform. They need a foundation validated on real clinical data, so they can focus on the problem only they understand.