TiDB AI Startup Program

Supporting AI Startups from Product Validation to Global Scale

ELIGIBILITY SECTION

Is This Program Right for Your Startup?

The TiDB AI Startup Program is designed for ambitious AI teams preparing to launch, scale, and serve customers worldwide.
You may be a strong fit if:

Your product is live or is expected to launch within the next three months.
You are building for markets such as the United States, Southeast Asia, Japan, or Europe.
You are developing AI agents, Agentic SaaS, RAG applications, knowledge platforms, coding agents, sandboxes, or AI infrastructure.
You need to manage user state, long-term memory, vector search, real-time analytics, multi-tenant workloads, or multi-region deployment.
Your application runs on AWS or Alibaba Cloud.

USE-CASE SECTION

AI Startup Use Cases

AI Agents and Agentic SaaS

Build agent platforms, AI workflows, and copilots on a data layer designed for high-concurrency state, complex interactions, and multi-tenant workloads.

Manus migrated to TiDB Cloud in two weeks, spinning up isolated, branchable databases to ship full-stack apps at scale.

Manus X TiDB Cloud

Coding Agents, Sandboxes, and AI Infrastructure

Support coding agents and automated execution environments with durable state, persistent workspaces, and continuity across sandbox lifecycles.

Kimi hosts tens of millions of agent-created sites on a single TiDB cluster, each isolated database provisioned in under a second.

Kimi X TiDB Cloud

Global AI-Native Applications

Elastic capacity and multi-region deployment on AWS and Alibaba Cloud, with Raft replication for strong cross-region consistency.

Plaud runs 13 regional TiDB Cloud clusters serving 2M+ users across 170 countries.

Plaud X TiDB Cloud

RAG, Knowledge, and Data Intelligence

Vector search and SQL in one system, so embeddings live next to transactional data and without a separate vector database.

Dify consolidated close to half a million database containers into a single TiDB Cloud implementation.

Dify X TiDB Cloud

PROGRAM BENEFITS SECTION

More Than Credits: A Faster Path to Production

The data challenges that emerge as AI products scale are the same ones the TiDB team helps successful AI companies solve in production.

Qualified startups gain access to this experience, helping them avoid common scaling bottlenecks and build a stronger production foundation.

Cloud Credits and Product Support

Receive up to $100,000 in TiDB Cloud credits.
Reduce infrastructure costs while validating and scaling your product.
Work with TiDB product teams on emerging AI use cases.

Technical Support

Receive a dedicated architecture assessment.
Work directly with the TiDB engineers who supported production deployments like Kimi and Plaud.
Apply proven patterns for multi-tenant isolation, agent memory, and cost control.
Get practical guidance on optimizing performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.

GTM and Ecosystem Support

Learn from real-world AI architectures and deployments.
Explore joint customer stories, technical content, and webinars.
Gain visibility across the TiDB partner and startup ecosystem.

Apply in Just Two Minutes

Tell us what you are building, where your product is today, and what challenges you expect as your product grows.

Qualified startups may receive:

Up to $100,000 in TiDB Cloud credits.
Guidance informed by production deployments like Kimi, Plaud, Manus, and Dify.
A dedicated AI architecture assessment.
Technical and GTM support.

Build the Data Foundation for AI That Scales