TigerGraph for Startups

Build Like You are Already Big

Get TigerGraph technology, architecture expertise, and production runway from the start. So you can build for the company you intend to become, not just the company you are today.

90 Days

Build for free

12 Months

Run in production free

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We Are Not Looking for Projects

We are looking for companies that can build better products with graph.

Identity

Know when fragmented signals belong to the same person.
Cybersecurity

Trace the paths connecting identities, assets, and risk.
Fraud

See the network behind the transaction.
AI

Give agents connected context—not just retrieved content.
Fintech

Understand the people, merchants, devices, and counterparties surrounding every transaction.
GraphRAG

Connect structured data, documents, and relationships to retrieve more than similarity.

If graph can become part of what makes your product valuable, we want to help you build it.

Get to customers before you get to a TigerGraph bill

90 Days

Get TigerGraph at no license cost while you build and validate your architecture.

Work with TigerGraph experts on graph modeling, architecture and the technical decisions that matter before production.

Build
Up to 12 Months

Run TigerGraph as part of your commercial product at no license cost within the program allowance.

Support qualifying customers and tenants without negotiating a separate TigerGraph license every time you win one.

Launch
Then
When your product and usage grow beyond the program, move into predictable startup pricing designed to grow with you.
- No per-customer licensing during the program.
- No artificial pricing cliff.
- No re-architecture because you succeeded.
Scale

Program Details

TigerGraph Architecture Lab

Start With People Who Have Solved the Hard Problems Before

Graph architecture is easy to get almost right. Almost right becomes expensive at scale.

Accepted startups can work directly with TigerGraph experts on:

Graph Modeling.
Agent Context.
Multi-Tenancy.
Production Architecture.
Performance & Scale.

Bring us the problem.
Leave with an architecture you can build on.

Built on TigerGraph

Building the Product is Only the Beginning

For selected startups, TigerGraph can help you go to market.

Customer Introductions

Joint Selling

Launch Support

Events & Co-Marketing

Customer Stories

If you build something exceptional on TigerGraph, we have every reason to help you succeed.

What Could You Build?

Identity

Connect people, businesses, accounts, devices and signals into a continuously evolving view of identity.

Fraud & Financial Crime

Find networks, shared infrastructure, hidden counterparties, and multi-hop patterns individual transactions cannot reveal.

AI Agents

Give agents connected context across customers, entities, histories, actions, and enterprise knowledge.

GraphRAG

Connect structured enterprise data with unstructured knowledge so AI can retrieve information in context.

Cybersecurity

Understand the paths among identities, assets, vulnerabilities, and events.

Fintech & Payments

Analyze transactions in the context of the people, merchants, devices, and counterparties around them.

Marketplaces

Model the networks behind trust, discovery, personalization, and abuse.

Supply Chain

Connect suppliers, components, facilities, and shipments to expose dependencies and risk.

Is This for You?

TigerGraph for Startups is designed for early-stage AI and software companies building repeatable commercial products where relationships are fundamental to what the product needs to know, find or decide.

Program Details

Strong Fit

Working product or MVP.
Credible path to production.
Technical founder, CTO or engineering leader engaged.
TigerGraph becomes part of the product delivered to customers.
Repeatable commercial product.
Priority is given to venture-backed or revenue-generating companies through Series B.
Meaningful relationship-intensive problem.