Skyrelis Joins NVIDIA Inception
Skyrelis has been accepted into NVIDIA’s global program for startups building on AI, accelerated computing, and data science.
By Jaz Lin, Founder and CEO, Skyrelis · 2026-09-22 · 3 min read
We're happy to share some news: Skyrelis has been accepted into NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's global program for startups building on AI, accelerated computing, and data science. It's a small line to write, but it's a meaningful one. Here's what the program is and why it's relevant to the problem we're solving.
What NVIDIA Inception actually is
Inception is a free, no-equity program that gives AI startups a structured on-ramp into the NVIDIA platform and ecosystem, "from prototype to production," in NVIDIA's own words. Membership brings four things: technical training and guidance, preferred access to developer tools, SDKs, and cloud credits, exposure to NVIDIA's venture network through Inception Capital Connect, and co-branded market reach, including official badges, joint social content, and introductions through NVIDIA's global events and partner network.
NVIDIA has brought in more than 40,000 startups this way, spanning everything from foundation model labs to robotics to, now, agentic AI security.
Why it's relevant to Skyrelis
Agentic AI doesn't run in a vacuum. It runs on the same accelerated-computing stack NVIDIA sits at the center of, from the GPUs training the underlying models to the inference platforms serving them in production. As more enterprises put agents into that stack and let them take real actions, the security question stops being "is the model good" and becomes "what governs what it's allowed to do once it's running."
That's exactly the layer Skyrelis builds. Being inside NVIDIA's startup ecosystem gives us closer visibility into how the platforms our customers' agents actually run on are evolving, direct lines to the technical teams building that infrastructure, and a credibility signal that matters in enterprise security reviews: NVIDIA doesn't accept companies into Inception on a marketing pitch — its own bar is a real product and a real team.
The agentic security problem is being taken seriously at every level of the stack, not just the application layer.
What it means for you
Nothing changes about how you use Skyrelis today. What it does mean going forward: faster access to the latest NVIDIA tooling and infrastructure as we build, a stronger technical relationship with the company defining the AI hardware and platform layer, and one more concrete data point, alongside our own runtime enforcement approach, that the agentic security problem is being taken seriously at every level of the stack.
We'll be sharing more as we get further into the program. In the meantime, if you want to see where your own agent deployments stand today, the Skyrelis Agentic Security Scorecard is a free, five-minute self-assessment. See where you stand.