THE STARTUP SHORTLIST

Software deals and perks for startups

Browse 109 offers across AI, cloud hosting and business software. Compare eligibility and application steps before visiting the provider.

109 offers to explore

Developer tools

0x

0x JumpStart supports Web3 teams adding decentralized exchange functionality to their applications.

$5,000 credits
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AI

AI21 Labs

AI21 Labs provides language models for reading comprehension, summarization and text generation.

Credits vary
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Developer tools

Alchemy

Alchemy provides blockchain node infrastructure, APIs and development tools for Web3 applications.

Credits vary
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Developer tools

Algolia

Algolia provides search and discovery tools for customer-facing products.

Up to $10,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Amplitude

Amplitude offers product analytics access through free tiers, credits or discounted growth plans.

Free Growth plan credits (program-dependent)
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AI

Anthropic

Anthropic provides Claude API credits through selected startup partners and accelerators.

Credits vary by program ($1K-$100K+)
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Productivity

Atlassian

Atlassian offers startup support across products such as Jira and Confluence.

Up to $50,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Auditsuisse Assurance

Auditsuisse Assurance offers SOC 2 audit services and web application penetration testing.

Complimentary SOC 2 Type 1 Audit + Web App Penetration Test when you purchase your SOC 2 Type 2 from Auditsuisse
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Developer tools

Auth0

Auth0 provides authentication and identity tools for software products.

Credits and free MAU tiers (program-dependent)
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Cloud

Amazon Web Services

AWS Activate supports early teams building on Amazon Web Services with cloud credits, technical resources and training.

Up to $100,000 in credits
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AI

Braintrust

Braintrust provides testing, tracing and evaluation tools for AI agents and language model applications.

Startup credits
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Marketing

Brevo

Brevo brings email, SMS and marketing automation into one platform.

Free forever plan
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Finance

Brex

Brex combines startup financial tools with access to partner rewards and software discounts.

Cash rewards, credits, and partner perks (program-dependent)
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AI

Browserbase

Browserbase provides managed headless browser infrastructure for web automation.

Startup credits
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Design

Canva

Canva's startup offers provide access to professional design collaboration and brand tools.

Free Pro access (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

CircleCI

CircleCI supports automated build and delivery workflows for open source projects.

400,000 free build minutes
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Developer tools

Clerk

Clerk provides authentication tooling for early-stage software products.

Authentication credits (program-dependent)
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Cloud

Cleura

Cleura offers a European sovereign cloud built on an open source foundation.

Cloud credits
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Developer tools

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a column-oriented database for analytical workloads.

Cloud credits
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Cloud

Cloudflare

Cloudflare combines application hosting, AI services, storage, security and networking.

Up to $350,000 in credits
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Developer tools

Cloudinary

Cloudinary supports media processing and delivery for digital products.

Media and bandwidth credits (program-dependent)
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AI

Cohere

Cohere provides language models designed for business applications, with an emphasis on security and privacy.

Credits vary
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Marketing

ConvertKit

ConvertKit provides email marketing tools for creators, including landing pages, signup forms and automated sequences.

Creator pricing
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Developer tools

Convex

Convex's startup program supports teams building their application's backend.

Up to 1 year free Professional plan plus 30% off usage fees up to $30,000
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Developer tools

CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike offers protection for endpoints, cloud workloads and identities.

Startup credits
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Developer tools

Cursor

Cursor is an AI-assisted code editor designed to work with a team's codebase.

Startup plan pricing
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Developer tools

Datadog

Datadog helps teams monitor their systems and manage incident workflows.

Up to $100,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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HR & legal

Deel

Deel helps companies hire, pay and manage employees and contractors internationally.

$5,000 credits (via Techstars)
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AI

DeepInfra

DeepInfra provides inference infrastructure for open source models, including text and image generation.

Inference credits
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Cloud

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean Hatch combines cloud credits with technical resources for startups launching and scaling products.

Up to $5,000 in credits
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AI

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs supports teams developing voice AI products through startup access programs.

Up to 3 months free (program-dependent)
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Cloud

Fastly

Fastly provides edge, security and content delivery services for software products.

CDN credits (program-dependent)
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Design

Figma

Figma provides collaborative design tools for product teams.

Free Professional plan for up to 1 year (program-dependent)
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AI

Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI provides inference for open models alongside technical resources and community support.

Inference credits
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Developer tools

GitHub

GitHub for Startups gives eligible software teams discounted access to its development platform.

Free or discounted Copilot and GitHub plan benefits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

GitLab

GitLab brings development, security and operations into a shared platform.

20 GitLab Ultimate licenses free for 1 year
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Cloud

Google Cloud

Google for Startups Cloud Program combines Google Cloud credits with technical guidance.

Up to $100,000 in credits
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Developer tools

Grafana Labs

Grafana Cloud brings metrics, logs and traces into an observability platform.

$100,000 credits
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HR & legal

Gusto

Gusto combines payroll, benefits and HR tools for growing companies.

Startup pricing
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Cloud

Heroku

Heroku's open source program provides platform credits for qualifying projects.

Platform credits
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Marketing

HubSpot

HubSpot combines CRM and growth tools for early sales and marketing teams.

Up to 90% off in year one on eligible plans
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AI

Hugging Face

Hugging Face supports startups building AI applications with open source models.

Free credits + Pro features
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Cloud

IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud gives startups access to cloud infrastructure and Watson AI services.

Credits vary
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Marketing

iLoveVideoEditor

iLoveVideoEditor's listed offer gives new startup customers a discount on Pro and Business plans for twelve months.

25% off for 12 months
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Developer tools

Infura

Infura provides API access to blockchain networks and IPFS.

Credits vary
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Customer support

Intercom

Intercom provides customer messaging and support tools for software businesses.

Up to 90% off (program-dependent)
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Sales & CRM

JaxSuite

JaxSuite's listed startup offer reduces subscription costs for eligible new customers during their first year.

50% off for 12 months ($50K+ first-year value)
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Developer tools

JetBrains

JetBrains provides integrated development environments for software teams.

Free IDE licenses for eligible teams
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Developer tools

Kong

Kong Konnect provides managed API tooling across clouds, gateways and architectures.

$500 credits
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Developer tools

Linear

Linear supports early product organizations with access periods on paid plans.

Up to 6 months free on eligible plans
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Productivity

Lokalise

Lokalise helps teams manage translations and automate localization workflows.

Startup discount
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Productivity

Loom

Loom offers business collaboration tools through startup-focused free or discounted plans.

Free Business plan period (program-dependent)
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Marketing

Mailchimp

Mailchimp provides email marketing tools with automation, audience insights and basic analytics.

Free plan available
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Marketing

Mailgun

Mailgun provides email infrastructure for product and transactional messaging.

Email sending credits (program-dependent)
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Finance

Mercury

Mercury's perks catalog brings together startup software credits and discounts from multiple providers.

Various perk bundles
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Cloud

Microsoft

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub helps software startups build on Azure through cloud credits and startup support.

Up to $150,000 in Azure credits
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Productivity

Miro

Miro provides tools for product collaboration across a team.

Free Team or Business plan period (program-dependent)
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AI

Mistral AI

Mistral AI's ambassador program supports AI builders with API credits and early access to features.

Free API credits + early access
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Developer tools

Mixpanel

Mixpanel provides analytics access for early product teams through growth plan credits or discounts.

Free Growth plan credits (program-dependent)
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AI

Modal

Modal runs training and inference workloads on serverless GPU infrastructure.

GPU compute credits
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Developer tools

MongoDB

MongoDB's startup programs support teams building on MongoDB Atlas with credits and technical assistance.

Up to $3,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Design

Mux

Mux supplies infrastructure for adding on-demand and live video to websites and applications.

$500 credits (more via accelerators)
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Developer tools

Neon

Neon offers Postgres infrastructure for application teams.

Postgres credits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

New Relic

New Relic's free tier combines application performance monitoring, tracing and logs with a monthly data ingest allowance.

100GB free per month
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Productivity

Notion

Notion's startup program provides credits or discounted access to selected productivity plans through partner communities.

Up to 6 months free on eligible plans
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AI

OpenAI

OpenAI startup credits are distributed through selected partners and accelerators.

Credits vary by program and partner
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Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Oracle for Startups combines cloud credits with technical mentorship and access to Oracle's infrastructure.

Credits vary
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Cloud

OVHcloud

OVHcloud combines public cloud credits with technical consultations and mentoring for startups.

€10,000-100,000 credits
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Productivity

Phrase

Phrase provides a localization platform with capacity that can grow alongside a team.

Startup pricing
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AI

Pinecone

Pinecone provides vector database infrastructure for applications.

Vector database credits (program-dependent)
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Finance

Plaid

Plaid supports fintech product teams with API credits and pricing assistance.

API credits and reduced fees (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

PostHog

PostHog's startup program supports early product teams with usage credits and discounted platform access.

Up to $50,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Marketing

Postmark

Postmark provides infrastructure for sending transactional email from applications.

Startup pricing
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Finance

Ramp

Ramp's startup offers combine account rewards with discounts from software providers.

Credits and SaaS discounts via partner network
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Cloud

Render

Render helps teams deploy and operate cloud applications.

Platform credits (program-dependent)
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AI

Replicate

Replicate lets teams run open source machine learning models without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Credits vary
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Developer tools

Replit

Replit provides a browser-based development environment for building, testing and deploying applications.

Free Teams plan
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Developer tools

Retool

Retool helps teams develop internal tools for their business operations.

Up to $60,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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HR & legal

Rippling

Rippling combines HR, IT and spend management in one system, including payroll, benefits and expenses.

6 months free (via accelerators)
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Sales & CRM

Salesforce

Salesforce provides CRM tools for managing customer relationships and sales pipelines.

Startup pricing
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Cloud

Scaleway

Scaleway pairs cloud cost coverage with consulting from solution architects and a startup community.

€36,000 credits
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Marketing

SendGrid

SendGrid supports application messaging through email infrastructure.

Email credits via partner programs (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Sentry

Sentry provides observability tooling for software teams.

Up to $50,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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HR & legal

Shor

Shor handles international payroll, contractor management and employer-of-record services.

$12,000+/year in enterprise support included
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Developer tools

Siemens

Siemens supports startups working in industrial IoT, automation and hardware.

Program benefits vary
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Developer tools

SingleStore

SingleStore combines transactions and analytics in a distributed SQL database.

Credits vary
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Productivity

Slack

Slack provides team collaboration tools with startup credits available through approved programs.

Credits toward paid plans (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Snowflake

Snowflake offers scalable data infrastructure and native AI capabilities for startups.

Credits vary
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Developer tools

Snyk

Snyk offers security scanning tools for software teams.

Free security scanning tier (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Statsig

Statsig brings feature flags, A/B testing and analytics into one platform.

$50,000+ credits
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Finance

Stripe Atlas

Stripe Atlas gives founders access to a catalog of partner software credits and discounts.

Partner credits and discounts after incorporation
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Finance

Stripe Climate

Stripe Climate participation may include incentives or fee discount opportunities tied to specific programs.

Fee discounts when enrolled (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Supabase

Supabase supports early teams building with its database and developer platform.

Up to $25,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Timescale

Timescale extends PostgreSQL for time-series, event and analytical workloads.

Credits vary
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AI

Together AI

Together AI provides access to open source models through a unified inference API.

GPU inference credits
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Developer tools

Twilio Segment

Twilio Segment supports customer data and messaging infrastructure for growing products.

Up to $50,000 in credits (program-dependent)
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Productivity

Typeform

Typeform provides tools for creating forms and surveys.

Free or discounted plans (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

UprootSecurity

UprootSecurity automates security and compliance work for startups pursuing frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Startup pricing available
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Developer tools

Vanta

Vanta automates evidence collection and monitoring for security compliance.

Startup pricing available
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AI

Vast.ai

Vast.ai provides distributed GPU infrastructure for AI workloads with flexible pricing.

$2,500 GPU credits
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Cloud

Vercel

Vercel's startup program pairs cloud platform credits with support for early product teams.

Up to $200,000 in platform credits (program-dependent)
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Developer tools

Warp

Warp is an AI-powered terminal with command generation, reusable workflows and team collaboration features.

Startup pricing
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AI

Weaviate

Weaviate supports vector search applications through its cloud platform.

Cloud credits (program-dependent)
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Design

Webflow

Webflow's startup offers can reduce the cost of workspace and website publishing plans.

Free or discounted workspace plans (program-dependent)
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Productivity

Whimsical

Whimsical combines whiteboarding, diagrams, wireframes and documentation for visual collaboration.

12 months free (6 months if revenue > $1M)
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Developer tools

Wiz

Wiz helps startups find and address security risks across their cloud environments.

Startup credits
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Developer tools

WorkOS

WorkOS provides enterprise identity features including single sign-on, SAML and directory synchronization.

Startup pricing available
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HR & legal

X-HR

X-HR combines HR, payroll, projects and finance in a modular work platform.

1 month free (all modules); free forever for teams < 10
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Productivity

Zoom

Zoom offers startup access to collaboration licenses through approved channels.

Discounted or free licenses (program-dependent)
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