Partner program

Become a partner onStartupHub.ai

More than ads. A bundled distribution partnership across editorial properties, high-intent advertising surfaces, and custom assets we build for your brand. Configure your own — see live previews, watch the price update.

1M+

Monthly page views

62K

Newsletter subs

162

Countries served

8.4%

Avg. ad CTR

Our reader base — visits across 100+ countries last 30 days

Recent partner results

Brands we've worked with

AWS

AWS Builder Program · Cloud Computing

AWS

Prospecting + community branding to early-stage and Stealth startups in Israel

AWS Builder Program distribution across our cloud-infra coverage, with focused prospecting and community branding to early-stage founders and Stealth startups in the Israeli ecosystem.

Bright Data

Web data platform

Bright Data

Brought them Linkup as a key enterprise client

Long-running editorial partner across our data-infrastructure and scraping coverage. Our branding and editorial focus on Bright Data led directly to Linkup signing as a key enterprise client — a multi-six-figure introduction we facilitated.

Bitfarms

Compute · enrichment automation

Bitfarms

Case-automation enrichment client

We run automated enrichment on their data pipeline — recurring engagement.

Xilinx

Adaptive computing · semiconductors

Xilinx

Semiconductor & FPGA distribution partner

Editorial reach across our hardware-developer audience.

Customize your brand preview

How do you want to buy?

Pay per placement, or subscribe and the same items cost less.

Analytics

Every campaign ships with a live performance dashboard, JSON API, and an MCP tool. Free for your own data.

Analytics
Demo

Every campaign includes this dashboard at /my-account?tab=ads. Numbers shown are illustrative — yours replace them within minutes of the first impression. Same data via GET /api/v1/advertiser/analytics (Bearer) or as get_advertiser_analytics over MCP. Zero credits.

Imp.

29,890

Clicks

1,117

CTR

3.7%

Daily impressions + clicks

Last 14 days

Same data, programmatic

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  https://www.startuphub.ai/api/v1/advertiser/analytics?days=30

Pick your placements

Click anything to add or remove. Live previews on the left, your selections + total on the right.

Editorial properties

Sponsor strips and native mentions across our editorial series — Claude's Corner, Trader Claude, Unfunded.

"Pick of the Month" featured spotlight

Each month we spotlight one startup using your product well. Pure brand association play.

$1,000 /per month
Partner Pick of the Month
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Strand AI

How they use real-time infrastructure to compress clinical-trial enrollment from months to days.

Daily trend graphics — logo placement

In bundle

We post designed daily-trend graphics (top funding rounds, fastest-growing startups, AI launches of the day) across the site, social, and newsletter. Your logo lives in the bottom-right corner of every graphic.

Free with subscription

StartupHub.ai

Top Funding Rounds

The 10 largest disclosed funding rounds in AI / tech this month, ranked by amount raised.

⭐ MAY 2026 ⭐
1
M

Musely

non-dilutive capital

$360.0M
2
F

Fun

Series A

$72.0M
3
S

Spanish Mountain Gold

Royalty Financing

$22.5M
4
S

Silurian

Seed

$6.0M
5
S

Synaps

Pre-Seed

$3.3M
6
L

Little Caesars

Seed

$1.2M
7
V

VNYX

Undisclosed

$1.1M
8
F

Founder Ball

Seed

$500K

StartupHub.ai

May 3, 2026

Posted daily across site, X, LinkedIn, and weekly newsletter. Your logo lives bottom-right on every graphic.

Sponsor strip on Claude's Corner

In bundle

Our editorial column scoring startups on how defensible their moat is. Logo + tagline strip on a review across the site.

Free with subscription
Editorial moat scores

Hardest to replicate

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Strand AI

Foundation Model · Multimodal AI

80

Multimodal foundation models that impute missing patient biology data for clinical trial selection.

Uncopyable
C
Crosslayer Labs

SaaS · B2B

68

Protect, monitor and defend your Internet presence

Hard moat
S
Sonarly

Developer Tools · AI Engineering

42

AI engineer for production that triages alerts, investigates root causes, and fixes bugs automatically.

Defensible

Native product recommendation inside a review

In bundle

Where a startup's stack genuinely fits, the review naturally suggests your product. Disclosed as sponsored, but only when it fits.

Free with subscription
Claude's Corner · Review

Strand AI: a defensible moat in clinical-trial AI

Replicability score: 80/100 · Uncopyable

Strand's wedge is the proprietary patient-biology imputation model trained on a dataset most competitors can't legally access. The 80/100 score reflects three things: rare data, regulatory moat, and a clinical-trial sales motion that rewards incumbency.

On the infra side, they're processing real-time biomarker streams for active trial recruitment — the kind of pipeline where event throughput and latency directly affect patient enrollment windows.

Native sponsor mention would appear here when the startup's stack fits Your brand.

The harder question is whether the data moat survives a regulator that mandates open biomarker schemas.

Sponsor strip on Trader Claude

In bundle

Our daily paper-trading agent series — $10k portfolio, real picks, audited learnings. Audience leans toward investors and finance-curious founders.

Free with subscription
Trader Claude · paper portfolio

Today's positions ($10K book)

NVDA
long
+4.2%
PLTR
short
+1.8%
BTC
long
−0.6%

Sponsor strip on Unfunded (launching soon)

In bundle

New editorial series covering bootstrapped startups with real revenue — no VC funding. Reaches a huge underserved audience: founders allergic to dilution.

Free with subscription
Unfunded series · launching soon

Bootstrapped, profitable, real revenue

C
Cubedrop

3 founders, no VC

$420K ARR
P
Pixelchamp

Bootstrapped since 2022

$1.1M ARR
F
Forwell

Profitable, no funding

$680K ARR

Advertising placements

High-intent surfaces — newsletter, homepage banner, search results, My Account onboarding.

Featured offer on My Account onboarding

In bundle

Every user who registers, logs in, or visits their dashboard sees your featured offer at the top. Hits 100% of registered users.

Free with subscription
startuphub.ai/my-account
D

Welcome back, Daniel

Pro user · 2 startup profiles

Featured partner banner shown to every logged-in user

Sponsored row in search results

In bundle

When founders search for tools, infra, or vendors, your offer shows as the top sponsored row. High-intent — they're actively shopping.

Free with subscription
startuphub.ai/search?q=vector+database
vector database
V

Vertex AI

Scalable AI platform with vector search and embeddings.

L

LanceDB

Open-source vector database for AI applications.

W

Weaviate

AI-native database for building AI applications.

Homepage banner during campaign

Sitewide above-the-fold banner. ~50K impressions per week.

$600 /per week
startuphub.ai/
Sitewide banner above the fold

Exclusive newsletter takeover (62K subscribers)

Your brand is the ONLY sponsor in that issue — every other ad is removed. Top-of-newsletter dedicated block with your creative. Self-serve newsletter ads share space with multiple sponsors; this is the upgrade — exclusivity. 18% open rate, ~11K opens per send.

$500 /per send
From: [email protected] · To: 62,000 founders

This week in startups

5 startups our editor flagged as actually defensible

Full-width graphic sponsor placement

Strand AI

Multimodal foundation models that impute missing patient biology data for clinical trial selection.

80

Crosslayer Labs

Protect, monitor and defend your Internet presence

68

Sonarly

AI engineer for production that triages alerts, investigates root causes, and fixes bugs automatically.

42

Social distribution

Amplify the work to our LinkedIn and X audiences.

Social cross-promotion (LinkedIn + X)

In bundle

We push each editorial piece to our LinkedIn and X audience with sponsor tag. Combined ~25K followers.

Free with subscription
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StartupHub.ai

12,400 followers · Sponsored

New in Claude's Corner: Strand AI scored 80/100 — "Uncopyable." The data moat is real, and the infra they're running to support it is impressive. Your brand would fit naturally here for the real-time pipeline.

Article preview image

Strand AI: a defensible moat in clinical-trial AI

startuphub.ai · Claude's Corner

Custom assets

Long-term SEO assets we build for you, owned by your brand.

Custom comparison landing page

Dedicated SEO-optimized page on StartupHub at /your-brand-for-startups — written, designed, and optimized to rank for "your-brand vs competitor" searches. Yours forever, builds long-term referral traffic.

$1,500 /one-time
startuphub.ai/brand-for-startups

Your brand for Startups

A short line about what you do.

Comparison content (built into the page for SEO)

Your brand vs competitors

SEO article · ranks for "competitors alternatives"

Migrating from competitors to Your brand

SEO article · ranks for "competitors alternatives"

Best Your brand alternatives compared

SEO article · ranks for "competitors alternatives"

Want just a banner ad? We have self-serve too.

Standard ad placements start at $49/week — go live in 24 hours, no sales call. Pricing, formats, and audience data on the public advertise page.

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Not ready to sponsor? You're still invited.

Be a Pro user — on us.

We'd love to have Your brand in the StartupHub ecosystem regardless. Sign up free as a Pro user, claim your company profile, and I'll personally approve your RSS feed submissions so your blog posts and product updates surface across the site editorially. No cost, no commitment — just inclusion in the community.

  • Claimed profile
  • RSS feed approved
  • Editorial inclusion

Free Pro Lite for 7 days — RSS feeds, full Pro features active. Auto-expires; no card required.