Frank is a member of NVIDIA Inception since 2026.
We were accepted in September 2026. Below is what the program is, what it gives us in concrete terms and, above all, what it does not mean.
- NVIDIA Inception
- Sep 2026
- NVIDIA
- Free
What happened.
NVIDIA Inception is NVIDIA's program for startups. It is not a competition: there is no jury comparing projects and no place to win. It is an acceptance, with entry requirements and a review.
The requirements are objective and published: be legally incorporated, be less than ten years old, have your own website and have at least one person developing. Consultancies, resellers, cloud providers, anything crypto-associated and publicly traded companies are out.
Frank was accepted in September 2026. The program charges no application fee, no membership fee, and takes no equity.
What it gives us, concretely.
Three things that actually change the day to day, and none of them is money. We will use the rest of what the program offers if and when we need it, and we are not going to list it here as if we already were.
Cloud compute credits for development. Frank runs its own voice engine, and the cost of experimenting with acoustic models is what decides how many times we can be wrong.
Preferred pricing on enterprise-grade GPUs and software. That matters the day voice inference stops running on a desktop and has to scale.
Technical training and access to NVIDIA's developer forums. This is a team of four: getting to an answer sooner is real time saved.
What it does NOT mean.
NVIDIA did not invest in Frank, holds no equity in the company, and does not endorse the product or its results. NVIDIA Inception is not a commercial partnership or a partner agreement either: it is a free support program for startups, and its badge says exactly that and nothing more. If anyone tells you that using Frank means using something validated by NVIDIA, they are lying to you, and it will not be us. What backs Frank is still what it was before: engine fidelity measured against openSMILE eGeMAPS v02 and Praat, and the competitions we won, with name, date and organizer.
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