© 2026 Credit for Startups
Explore credits, grants, and resources from leading tech companies to accelerate your startup's growth.
Up to $500,000
The most well-known startup accelerator — $500K for 7% (standard deal) plus 12 weeks of intensive support and Demo Day.
Up to $80,000
Up to 2 years free on Zendesk's Resolution Platform for up to 50 agents through Zendesk for Startups.
Up to $350,000
Provides up to $200,000 in credits for cloud services and infrastructure.
Up to $350,000
Corporate cards and spend management platform offering startups no-personal-guarantee cards, cashback, and $350,000+ in partner perks and software credits.
Up to $250,000
Offers tiered startup credits from $5,000 to $250,000 based on funding stage.
Up to $220,000
$220,000 investment: $20,000 convertible equity for 5% common stock plus $200,000 uncapped MFN SAFE.
Up to $200,000
UC Berkeley's global startup accelerator — $200K investment plus a six-month program with Berkeley faculty and mentors.
Up to $150,000
Offers up to $150,000 in Azure credits for cloud services and development tools.
Up to $150,000
Provides over $150,000 in value with one year free including up to 1 billion events.
Up to $150,000
Seed-stage accelerator and global investment fund — has invested in 5,000+ companies across 80+ countries.
Up to $120,000
Provides up to $120,000 cloud credits for cloud services and AI.
Up to $100,000
Offers up to $100,000 in AWS credits for cloud infrastructure, AI model credits via Bedrock, and up to $1M for select accelerator cohorts.
Up to $100,000
Provides up to $5,000 in infrastructure credits for their cloud platform.
Up to $100,000
Provides up to $100,000 in credits for one year of free Datadog Pro.
Up to $100,000
Offers $25,000 to $100,000+ in Claude API credits for startups depending on stage.
Up to $100,000
Up to $100,000 in Oracle Cloud credits with $500 free to start and 70% discount.
Up to $100,000
Render's Startup Program gives early-stage teams cloud hosting credits plus hands-on migration help to ship apps, services, and databases fast.
Up to $100,000
Neon's Startup Program offers serverless Postgres credits so early-stage teams can run production-grade databases with branching while keeping infra costs near zero.
Up to $50,000+
$2,500 in Stripe product credits plus over $50,000 in partner discounts from AWS, Mercury, Carta, and more.
Up to $50,000
Provides up to $50,000 in credits for data and AI workloads.
Up to $50,000
Up to $10,000 in platform credits for startups, plus $40,000 in non-dilutive funding through the Accelerator program.
Up to $50,000
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform that collects, cleans, and routes first-party data to your analytics and marketing tools.
Up to $50,000
AI acceleration cloud offering tiered platform credits up to $50K plus dedicated AI engineering support for inference, fine-tuning, and clusters.
Up to $50,000
PostHog for Startups gives early-stage companies platform credits plus merch and partner perks for product analytics, session replay, and feature flags.
Up to $50,000
Bundled free premium access to Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, Compass and Jira Product Discovery for early-stage startup teams.
Up to $30,000
Provides approximately €30,000 in credits for La Plateforme plus cohort mentorship through their 6-month startup program.
Up to $30,000
Auth0 for Startups gives venture-backed early-stage companies the B2B Professional plan free for one full year.
Up to $25,000
Offers services valued at $25,000 for CRM and cloud services.
Up to $25,000
Eligible startups get up to 93% off Intercom's AI-first customer service platform plus a free first year of the Fin AI Agent.
Up to $25,000
Serverless GPU and CPU compute platform offering early-stage AI startups up to $25K in credits, engineering support, and a founder community.
Up to $25,000
WorkOS for Startups makes apps enterprise-ready with User Management free up to one million monthly active users.
Up to $25,000
Developer-first email API offering Y Combinator startups large credit grants plus direct founder and engineering access.
Up to $16,000
Neo4j's Startup Program gives early-stage teams Aura credits for a fully managed, production-ready graph database, plus technical enablement and go-to-market support for building GraphRAG and AI apps.
Up to $15,000
All-in-one workforce platform unifying HR, payroll, IT, and spend management on one system for scaling startups.
Up to $15,000
Clerk for Startups offers early-stage companies discounted Pro authentication features on top of a generous free tier.
Up to $15,000
Customer engagement platform giving eligible early-stage startups up to 12 months free of its messaging and automation tooling.
Up to $12,000
Grants Business plan free for up to 6 months (saving up to $12,000) including Notion AI for new startup teams.
Up to $10,000
AWS Advanced Tier Partner that helps startups access AWS credits, cut cloud costs, and get hands-on support from AWS-certified experts — with no added service fee.
Up to $10,000
Fast-inference platform offering AI-native startups build credits, higher rate limits, and applied-engineer support to ship generative AI on open-weight models.
Up to $10,000
Run open-weight AI models via API with per-second billing; startups can claim inference credits with no VC referral required.
Up to $10,000
Automated GRC and compliance platform offering preferred startup pricing on its first contract to founders backed by participating investors.
Up to $10,000
Algolia for Startups grants early-stage companies credits toward AI-powered search and discovery, plus partner perks and early feature access.
Up to $9,000
Composable content platform offering startups a free year of the Growth plan through select venture and accelerator partners.
Up to $7,500
Compliance automation platform offering discounted startup pricing on SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and other frameworks for early-stage teams.
Up to $5,600
All-in-one back office for venture-scale startups covering incorporation, cap table, equity, fundraising tools, and 409A valuations.
Up to $5,400
Provides eligible partner-affiliated startups a free year of Zoom Workplace Business Plus for up to 25 seats.
Up to $5,000
Grants 6 months of Enterprise Pro (up to 50 seats) plus $5,000 in API credits for AI-powered search integration.
Up to $5,000
Up to $5,000 in OpenAI API credits — including the GPT-4o and ChatGPT API models — for venture-backed startups through OpenAI for Startups.
Up to $5,000
Legendary Benchmark investor Bill Gurley's foundation awarding $5,000 non-dilutive micro-grants to early builders and founders chasing a dream — applicants (18+, US residents) showing real commitment through unpaid work and facing a specific financial obstacle the grant would unblock. Pilot applications open May 2026; deadline Aug 1, 2026.
Up to $5,000
Global payroll, EOR, and contractor management platform letting startups hire, pay, and manage teams across 150+ countries compliantly.
Up to $5,000
Developer security platform offering a startup program with discounted access to find and fix vulnerabilities in code, dependencies and containers.
Up to $5,000
SSOJet's startup program gives qualified startups and non-profits 50% off enterprise SSO for twelve months.
Up to $5,000
MojoAuth's startup program offers 50% off annual Business Pro passwordless authentication for one year.
Up to $5,000
PlanetScale for Startups offers MySQL and Postgres database credits plus zero-downtime migration assistance for early-stage teams scaling their data layer.
Up to $5,000
Sentry for Startups provides early-stage companies credits and priority support for application monitoring, error tracking, and performance observability.
Up to $5,000
Highlight for Startups offers early-stage teams free usage of the open-source, full-stack monitoring platform for session replay, error tracking, and tracing.
Up to $5,000
Free Business-plan project management and issue tracking built for fast-moving software teams, with no VC or accelerator affiliation required.
Up to $5,000
Communications APIs platform offering qualifying early-stage startups credits, technical support, and access to its startups team.
Up to $4,000+
33 million characters of audio generation (680+ hours) over 12 months for startups with fewer than 25 employees.
Up to $3,000
ML experiment tracking and LLM evaluation platform offering startups discounted Pro access, mainly through Microsoft and Google Cloud partner programs.
Up to $3,000
AI Engine Optimization platform helping cybersecurity and B2B SaaS startups get cited and recommended inside AI search engines.
Up to $3,000
Supabase's Startup Program gives early-stage teams credits for its open-source Postgres backend, covering database, auth, storage, and edge functions.
Up to $3,000
Mintlify Startups gives venture-backed early-stage teams free AI credits and Pro features to build beautiful, agent-ready product documentation.
Up to $3,000
Async video messaging for startup teams, offered free for a year through Atlassian's startup program and accelerator partnerships.
Up to $2,000
Free cap table and equity management for early-stage founders to issue equity, manage SAFEs, and track ownership from day one.
Up to $2,000
Business password and secrets manager offering qualifying startups six months free, distributed through founder and accelerator partner programs.
Up to $1,200
Employer of Record platform helping startups hire, pay, and manage international employees and contractors without setting up legal entities.
Up to $1,000
Compliance automation platform that helps startups achieve SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications faster with automated evidence collection.
Up to $1,000
Linear is a streamlined issue tracking and project management tool built for high-performance software and product teams.
Up to $1,000
Collaborative design and whiteboarding platform offering startups up to a free year of the Professional plan via accelerator partners.
Up to $500
Incorporate a US C-Corp from anywhere in the world. $500 flat fee covers incorporation, EIN, founder agreements, and Stripe product credits.
Up to $348
Visual web development platform offering eligible referred startups 100% off their first year of a site plan.
Up to $279
AI SEO platform that writes and publishes optimized articles to your CMS on autopilot, so startups can grow organic traffic without a content team.
Up to $174
No-code form builder with unlimited free forms, offering startups 50% off the Pro plan for one year via partners.
Up to $108
Open-source AI hub offering startups free PRO access for a limited time, distributed via partner perk marketplaces and promo codes.
Up to Free for 1 year
One year free of the Growth plan with up to 1.2 billion events and 200K monthly tracked users.
Up to Varies
Offers up to 90% off on marketing, sales, and CRM software for startups.
Up to Varies
Offers discounted enterprise AI pricing (up to 25% off) and grant access through Cohere Labs for early-stage startups.
Up to Varies
Offers usage credits, discounts, Pro support, and access to all regions for vector database infrastructure.
Up to Varies
Offers expanded Atlas credits, Voyage AI tokens, and go-to-market support for startups building on MongoDB.
Up to Varies
Grants free usage credits plus 6-month accelerator with GTM support for startups building on the Snowflake data cloud.
Up to Varies
Provides startup credits for serverless hosting and deployment, with multi-vendor credit pools through their AI Accelerator.
Up to Varies
Free startup banking built for founders — no monthly fees, FDIC-insured deposits, and integrated treasury for idle cash.
Up to Varies
Corporate cards and finance stack built for startups — no personal guarantee, rewards on startup-relevant spend.
Up to Varies
Startup-friendly legal paperwork — incorporation, fundraising docs, and equity grants done online with founder-friendly defaults.
Up to Varies
Modern payroll, benefits, and HR for early-stage teams — automatic tax filings and contractor payments included.
Up to Varies
Pre-seed / day-zero investor for first-time founders — find a co-founder and build a company from scratch in one of 30+ global locations.
Up to Varies
Talent investor that funds individuals before they have a company. Pairs founders, gives a stipend, and invests at pre-seed.
Up to Varies
Free program for AI and data-science startups — discounts on NVIDIA hardware/software, technical training, and go-to-market support.
Up to Varies
Mozilla's themed grant program for early-stage open-source AI builders. Awards up to $100K per project. Currently between cohorts — watch builders.mozilla.org for the next call.
Up to Varies
AWS Imagine Grant — three award tracks (Momentum to Modernize, Go Further Faster, Pathfinder/GenAI) of cash plus AWS Promotional Credits for nonprofits using the cloud for social impact.
Up to Varies
Google's philanthropic arm — funds nonprofits and social-impact startups working on global challenges (AI for good, education, equity).
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