Startup credits and programs: who qualifies and how to apply — Programscape

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Give your startup more room to grow.

Programscape is an independent map of startup programs, cloud credits, technical resources, and people who can help you build. Find support to stretch your budget, solve problems, and reach customers.

There’s more help for founders than most people know.

AWS, Google, Microsoft, Stripe, OpenAI and others run programs just for startups. Each one sits on its own site with its own rules, so they’re easy to miss.

104 programs and resources26 providers

Each one checked against the provider’s own pages, with the date we checked.

  • Credits 44
  • Technical help 35
  • Discounts 17
  • Customer introductions 15
  • Referrals and introductions 7
  • Training 21
  • Founder communities 11

  • Discover

    Every program that could fit your company, from one place instead of twenty.

  • Evaluate

    Whether you qualify, what it’s worth and what it asks of you, sourced and dated.

  • Track

    Where each one stands on your Plan, and when it expires.

Find support for my startup

Explore support by provider.

Built for founders
by founders.

Hi, I’m Dave. 👋🏻 Programscape started as a tool I wanted for myself.

After six startups, I’ve seen how much the right support can help, and how easy it is to miss. I’ve benefited from more than $1M in program credits, resources, and guidance. I’ve also missed out on $100K in DevOps credits because of a technicality. That one still stings.

So I started building something to make these opportunities easier to find and figure out. My hope is that Programscape helps us spend less time untangling program requirements and more time building. With a little extra runway and some good people in our corner.

Dave Siegfried

Your company comes first. Providers can’t pay for a higher place in your results. Every offer keeps its requirements, official sources, and the date we checked it.

On October 9, 2026, we re-checked 200 facts against the providers’ own pages and found no changes. Where providers say two different things

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