The Startup Credits Directory

Incorporated, <10 yrs old, has website, 1+ developer

Bootstrapped, active website, <10 yrs old, AWS account required

Pre-funded startups with a Google Cloud billing account

Under $10M raised, pre-Series C

Early-stage startups; ~5 business day review

Any stage, any funding level

Tiered by funding level; bootstrapped qualifies for base tier

Startups

Startups <5 yrs, <$20M raised (verify on page)

AI startups

AI startups

All stages, 12 months of benefits

Startups

<100 employees, new Notion customer

<5 yrs old, under Series A

<2 yrs old, <$5M raised (verify on page)

<$10M raised, <5 yrs (verify on page)

<$200M raised

<3 yrs old, <$5M funding

US-based business

<50 employees, <$10M raised (verify on page)

Startups

Open to anyone

AI startups; higher tier requires NVIDIA Inception membership

<$8M raised, incorporated <5 yrs, never on paid plan, no prior Mixpanel offers. VC NOT required.

<$10M raised, <20 employees. No VC requirement. ~96% approval, 2-day decision.

Free Miro account required. Independent tier needs no partner.

Privately held, <5 yrs old, website required. No funding requirement.

<50 employees; pre-launch OK with working MVP. Bootstrapped eligible.

<$1M raised AND <=25 stakeholders. Bootstrapped eligible.

Explicitly bootstrapped-friendly. <7 yrs, <100 employees, Seed-Series B stage.

<100 employees, Series A or earlier (pre-seed/unfunded included).

Build tier: up to $5M raised (includes $0). Selection-based.

Open to various stages; no hard funding requirement. Discretionary review.

<25 employees, business email required, monetization strategy, agencies excluded.

No explicit criteria published; bootstrapped acceptance unverified -- worth attempting.

Building customer-facing apps ON Snowflake; no stated funding gate; bootstrapped unverified.

<5 yrs, <50 employees, not yet a Scaleway client. EU-market preference (not exclusion).

AI builder or early-stage startup, in production or launching within 6 months; no funding minimum, no VC gate, no age limit

Ideally <$10M raised and <25 employees, but explicitly invites applicants outside those guidelines; new customers and free-tier users welcome

For-profit, under 7 years old, at least ONE of: paid non-founder employees, active real users, initial revenue, or VC funding -- no hard VC gate

Open to startups of any funding stage -- the fundraising dropdown explicitly includes 'Bootstrapped'; no VC, age, or partner gates

Under 5 years old, under $1M annual revenue, max ~$5M raised, software product you own, own public website; Premium tier gated on approved VC partner

Raised <$10M total funding, never a Customer.io customer, lists obtained organically -- no age/employee/VC gate; bootstrapped $0-raised qualifies cleanly

Tech startup under 5 years old, fewer than 50 employees, revenue under EUR 10M, with at least an MVP/POC deployable on OVHcloud

Early-stage startups up to Series A; open to direct applicants (VC/accelerator referral optional, not required); AI-startup focus

No published funding/age/VC gates on the official page; aimed at early-stage/growing startups

Discretionary: 'hand-selected scaling startups and VC partners' per archived official page; no hard funding-stage or age rule published, but tilted toward funded/scaling companies

US-registered LLC OK, no VC required, but $25K cash in a linked US business bank account + full KYC

Founded <7 years ago, pre-seed to Series A (no Series B+ raised), live website, business email -- bootstrapped/$0-raised qualifies on paper; NO VC referral required

Fewer than 20 employees AND less than EUR 5M total funding -- Biznomad (1 employee, $0 raised) clearly qualifies; no VC/partner/age gate

Teams actively training models, running inference, or scaling a production workload ('companies that are shipping') -- no funding-stage or VC requirement published

AI core to product (pass), founded <5 years ago (pass, 2023), net-new customer (pass) -- but stated 'funding stage should be Seed to Series A'; $0 raised likely fails review

AI startups globally; everyone starts at Launcher tier ($1,000) and upgrades (Gold $20K / Platinum $40K / Diamond $59K) via reviewed proposals; requires valid Alibaba Cloud account to redeem

Starter targets pre-Series A startups with working products and near-term GPU needs; 'venture backing is strongly preferred' but applications reviewed holistically -- not a hard gate

Program membership open 'with or without VC backing'; CREDITS require institutional equity funding + founded within last 4 years + no prior Anthropic startup credits -- Biznomad passes age (2023) but fails the funding gate

Explicitly open to bootstrapped companies and direct founders (no VC gate); seed-through-Series-B stage; best suited for startups with cloud spend of $4,000/month or more

No published gates; credits negotiated individually to offset migration costs -- requires a real database workload to migrate

Bootstrapped-specific: launched product, charging for it, no outside investment -- exact fit for Biznomad if biznomad.io is live and monetizing

Bootstrapped, active website, <10 yrs old

Pre-funded startups

Revenue under $15M

Tiered by funding level

<7 yrs old, active users or revenue

Early-stage, H100 GPU access

Submit business proposal

Series A+ funded

Early-stage

Via accelerator/VC partner

High-growth, limited batches

AI startups

VC referral needed

Competitive, cohort-based, SF

AI-native startups

NVIDIA Inception members

Venture-backed, $5K-$25K/mo spend

AI/ML-focused

GPU compute needs

Research affiliation preferred

AI startups

AI startups

AI startups

Startups (+ free 1M tokens/day)

AI startups

Startups

AI startups

AI/ML startups

Data/AI startups

Data startups

Free tier available

Startups

Pre-seed to Series A, AI product

Startups

All stages, 12 mo

Startups

Via referral partner

Startups

Startups

Startups

<100 employees, new customer

<5 yrs old, Seed-Series A

Early-stage

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

<3 yrs, <$5M funding

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

<$200M raised

Partners/agencies

US-based business

$50K+ in bank

Opening Ramp account

<25 stakeholders

<$1M raised

<200 employees

Venture-backed

Any startup

Pre-Seed to Series A

Teams/businesses

Startups

Pre-seed/seed, bi-annual

Early-stage, competitive

Join Antler sprint

Rolling admissions

Techstars network

MVP/prototype required

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

Bootstrapped startups

https://www.joinsecret.com/

https://www.founderpass.com/join

https://nachonacho.com/

https://startground.com/

https://www.rockethub.com/startup-perks

https://www.founderlift.space/

https://www.getaiperks.com/en

https://www.openvc.app/perks

https://founderperks.co/

Via startupcredits.io

Early-stage companies in specific sectors

Startups in various sectors

US small businesses

US founders

Early-stage startup founders

Early-stage entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs and small businesses

Early startups

Startups

Startups

Startups

AI startups

Early-stage AI startups

AI startup founders

AI startups

Google Cloud startup program participants

Startups

Google Cloud startup program participants

Startups

AI startups

Startups

Startups