Singapore Startup Funding: Credits, Perks & Programs

Databricks for Startups gives early-stage venture-backed startups up to $200,000 in credits across Databricks and Neon.

One year free on Mixpanel's Startup Plan, worth $145,000: 1B events, 1M Session Replays, 1.2M Experiments MEUs and Feature Flags.

The full Zendesk Suite — including AI Agents and Copilot — free for up to 2 years through Zendesk for Startups. Over $100,000 in value.

Up to $100,000 in credits for the entire Datadog platform for your first year, for Series A or earlier startups referred through a Datadog partner.

Claude for Startups: a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in Claude API credits, higher rate limits and up to $45K in partner offers for startups founded in the last five years or funded in the last two. Bootstrapped founders qualify. Partner-VC-backed teams can get up to $100K more in API credits.

Render's Startup Program gives early-stage teams cloud hosting credits plus hands-on migration help to ship apps, services, and databases fast.

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.

Two Stripe programs: Stripe Atlas forms your company and includes $2,500 in Stripe credits plus $50,000+ in partner discounts from Google, Xero, AWS and more; Stripe Startups gives venture-backed companies 12 months of fee credits.

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform that collects, cleans, and routes first-party data to your analytics and marketing tools.

AI acceleration cloud offering tiered platform credits up to $50K plus dedicated AI engineering support for inference, fine-tuning, and clusters.

PostHog for Startups gives early-stage companies platform credits plus merch and partner perks for product analytics, session replay, and feature flags.

Bundled free premium access to Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, Compass and Jira Product Discovery for early-stage startup teams.

Vercel for Startups: up to $30,000 in Vercel usage credit (valid up to 1 year) plus Enterprise-tier access, for Series A-or-earlier startups backed by an approved Vercel Startups Partner, applying within 12 months of their last round.

Auth0 for Startups gives venture-backed early-stage companies the B2B Professional plan free for one full year.

Offers services valued at $25,000 for CRM and cloud services.

Eligible startups get up to 93% off Intercom's AI-first customer service platform plus a free first year of the Fin AI Agent.

Serverless GPU and CPU compute platform offering early-stage AI startups up to $25K in credits, engineering support, and a founder community.

WorkOS for Startups makes apps enterprise-ready with User Management free up to one million monthly active users.

Developer-first email API offering Y Combinator startups large credit grants plus direct founder and engineering access.

All-in-one workforce platform unifying HR, payroll, IT, and spend management on one system for scaling startups.

Clerk for Startups offers early-stage companies discounted Pro authentication features on top of a generous free tier.

Customer engagement platform giving eligible early-stage startups up to 12 months free of its messaging and automation tooling.

Grants Business plan free for up to 6 months (saving up to $12,000) including Notion AI for new startup teams.

International payroll and EOR built for founders. Pay contractors in 150+ countries from $19/month or hire EOR employees in 27 markets from $299/month, plus $12,000+ a year in free enterprise support. No equity, no setup fee, open to any company.

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.

$10,000 in GitHub platform credits for 12 months, usable on GitHub Enterprise, Copilot, Advanced Security, and Actions. For partner-affiliated startups funded up to Series B.

Run open-weight AI models via API with per-second billing; startups can claim inference credits with no VC referral required.

Supabase offers up to $10,000 in credits, redeemed directly through the partners it works with. Founders outside those partnerships can start at supabase.com/solutions/startups.

Algolia for Startups grants early-stage companies credits toward AI-powered search and discovery, plus partner perks and early feature access.

Composable content platform offering startups a free year of the Growth plan through select venture and accelerator partners.

All-in-one back office for venture-scale startups covering incorporation, cap table, equity, fundraising tools, and 409A valuations.

33 million characters (over 680 hours of Agents usage) for 12 months, worth $5,500+, for startups with fewer than 25 employees.

Provides eligible partner-affiliated startups a free year of Zoom Workplace Business Plus for up to 25 seats.

3 months of Enterprise Pro (up to 50 seats) plus $5,000 in API credits for startups affiliated with an approved Perplexity startup partner.

Global payroll, EOR, and contractor management platform letting startups hire, pay, and manage teams across 150+ countries compliantly.

Developer security platform offering a startup program with discounted access to find and fix vulnerabilities in code, dependencies and containers.

SSOJet's startup program gives qualified startups and non-profits 50% off enterprise SSO for twelve months.

MojoAuth's startup program offers 50% off annual Business Pro passwordless authentication for one year.

PlanetScale for Startups offers MySQL and Postgres database credits plus zero-downtime migration assistance for early-stage teams scaling their data layer.

Sentry for Startups provides early-stage companies credits and priority support for application monitoring, error tracking, and performance observability.

Highlight for Startups offers early-stage teams free usage of the open-source, full-stack monitoring platform for session replay, error tracking, and tracing.

Free Business-plan project management and issue tracking built for fast-moving software teams, with no VC or accelerator affiliation required.

ML experiment tracking and LLM evaluation platform offering startups discounted Pro access, mainly through Microsoft and Google Cloud partner programs.

AI Engine Optimization platform helping cybersecurity and B2B SaaS startups get cited and recommended inside AI search engines.

Mintlify Startups gives venture-backed early-stage teams free AI credits and Pro features to build beautiful, agent-ready product documentation.

Async video messaging for startup teams, offered free for a year through Atlassian's startup program and accelerator partnerships.

Free cap table and equity management for early-stage founders to issue equity, manage SAFEs, and track ownership from day one.

Business password and secrets manager offering qualifying startups six months free, distributed through founder and accelerator partner programs.

Employer of Record platform helping startups hire, pay, and manage international employees and contractors without setting up legal entities.

Compliance automation platform that helps startups achieve SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications faster with automated evidence collection.

Linear is a streamlined issue tracking and project management tool built for high-performance software and product teams.

Collaborative design and whiteboarding platform offering startups up to a free year of the Professional plan via accelerator partners.

Form a US company from anywhere in the world for a one-time $500 fee, with $2,500 in Stripe credits for the first year and $50K+ in partner discounts.

No-code form builder with unlimited free forms, offering startups 50% off the Pro plan for one year via partners.

Open-source AI hub offering startups free PRO access for a limited time, distributed via partner perk marketplaces and promo codes.

One year free of the Growth plan with up to 1.2 billion events and 200K monthly tracked users.

DigitalOcean Hatch gives startups that have raised $10M or less 12 months of infrastructure credits (amount varies) plus 15 months of Standard support.

OpenAI has no public self-serve credit application. Startups get API credits through an OpenAI partner VC (OpenAI names Thrive, Sequoia, a16z, Kleiner Perkins and Conviction) with a referral code. OpenAI does not publish the credit amount.

Offers up to 90% off on marketing, sales, and CRM software for startups.

Offers discounted enterprise AI pricing (up to 25% off) and grant access through Cohere Labs for early-stage startups.

Offers usage credits, discounts, Pro support, and access to all regions for vector database infrastructure.

MongoDB for Startups gives Atlas credits, Voyage AI access and go-to-market support across four tiers: Inspire (self-funded), Grow (early-funded), Innovate (venture-funded) and Scale.

Snowflake runs several startup routes: a Startup Package with free usage on your first contract, a 6-month Startup Accelerator for customer-facing apps on the AI Data Cloud, free usage for portfolio companies of select VCs, and the Startup Challenge with up to $1M in investment.

The NVIDIA Inception program is free for AI and data-science startups — discounts on NVIDIA hardware/software, technical training, and go-to-market support. No fees, no equity, open globally at every stage.

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.

Fireworks for Startups gives venture-backed startups (over $500K raised, before Series D) credits for its fast-inference platform. Fireworks does not publish the credit amount.

Unified AI inference API for image, video, audio, LLM, and 3D generation, offering up to $30K in API credits through its Grant Program for early-stage teams building on Runware.

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.

The SEO MCP server for developers building with coding agents. One MCP server gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client your Google Search Console and GA4 data plus Google keyword demand, and the Startups program gives eligible startups up to $5,000 in credit.

Distributed GPU cloud running inference and batch workloads on 60,000+ consumer GPUs at a fraction of hyperscaler pricing. Startups get $1,000 in SaladCloud credit valid for 24 months, rising to $5,000 with a published case study.