Cocoon Joins Anthropic's Claude Startups Programme
This week Cocoon was accepted into Claude Startups, Anthropic’s programme for early-stage companies that build with Claude. It is a small step for a company our size, but it lines up neatly with how we already work, so we wanted to say a few words about it.
WHAT CLAUDE STARTUPS IS
Claude Startups is a programme run by Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI models. Members get access to Claude for their team, API credits for building, a set of offers from other software companies, office hours with Anthropic’s Applied AI team, and invitations to community events, hackathons and meetups.
In short, it gives a young company more room to build and more people to learn from.
WHY IT FITS COCOON
Cocoon teaches people to build with AI, not just read about it. That only works if we build with it ourselves, every day.
Much of mycocoon.life, including the free tools anyone can use, was built with Claude Code. Several of our trainers use Claude in their own engineering and product work. So joining a programme for companies building with Claude felt like a natural next step rather than a new direction.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PEOPLE WE TRAIN
More of what we build reaches you. Extra room to build means more free tools and labs on the site, and more time spent improving the ones already there.
What we learn, we teach. Anything useful we pick up from office hours and the Claude Startups community goes straight into our sessions, the same way everything else we learn on real projects does.
Still tool-agnostic. Our programmes teach skills that carry across tools: how to break work down, write clear instructions, check AI output and build workflows. You will keep using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and others with us, depending on what fits the job.
WHAT IT DOESN’T MEAN
To be clear about what this is: Cocoon is a member of the Claude Startups programme. We are not an Anthropic partner, reseller or certified training provider, and Anthropic does not endorse our programmes. Cocoon remains an independent Sri Lankan company.
If you want to build with AI on your own work, start with our programmes or try one of the free tools and labs. And if you are a founder in Sri Lanka thinking about applying to programmes like this, we are happy to talk.
Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. Cocoon’s membership in Claude Startups does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by Anthropic.