Founder perks

The 2080 founder stack.

Unlock $1.5M+ in savings from 67 curated deals — including 12 negotiated exclusively for 2080 founders.

67 deals

✦ 2080 Exclusivenegotiated directly for our founders

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Intercom

First year 100% free · 50% off yr 2 · 25% off yr 3

All-in-one customer communication platform — help desk, live chat, AI chatbot, product tours and surveys, with Early Stage Academy onboarding.

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Segment / Twilio

$50,000 in Segment credits

Collect, unify and route customer data to 300+ tools — analytics, marketing, A/B testing and BI — with no engineering lift.

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AWS Activate

$5,000 credits → up to $25,000 + 12 mo Business Support

Cloud credits and support for 2080-referred startups, upgradeable to $10K–$25K based on usage and stage.

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Miro

$1,000 credits + up to 25% off Enterprise

Visual collaboration for roadmaps, sprints and workshops. Early-stage credits plus Growth/Scale offers with a free Enterprise trial.

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HubSpot

30–90% off all products, year one

CRM, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub and Service Hub — plus startup templates, playbooks and partner offers.

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Apollo

50% off Basic & Professional annual plans

Sales intelligence and engagement — find leads, send sequences and close faster, with API and Living Data Network access.

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Carta

20% off first year + waived onboarding fees

Cap table, fundraising suite (SAFEs, closings, pro formas) and tax tools — 83(b), QSBS checks, CTA filing.

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Vanta

25% off first year

Automated SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI and GDPR compliance with continuous security monitoring.

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Beefree SDK

$10,000 in credits

Embeddable drag-and-drop email and page builder for SaaS products — ship editors in days, not months.

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Airalo

10% off eSIMs in 200+ countries

Instant eSIM data plans worldwide — for founders, remote teams and anyone travelling to demo days and trade shows.

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Google Cloud

Cloud credits up to $100,000

Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE and Firebase — with technical support and architecture reviews for startups.

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Microsoft for Startups

Up to $150,000 in Azure credits

Founders Hub: Azure, GitHub Enterprise, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365 and Azure OpenAI — open to founders at any stage.

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AWS Activate

$1K self-serve → $300K (Gen AI tier)

Largest & oldest program. Credits valid ~2 years. Bedrock AI model credits.

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Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

$1K–$5K self-serve → $150K (Investor Network)

Best self-serve entry point. Azure OpenAI, M365, GitHub Enterprise.

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Google for Startups Cloud Program

$100K (Start) → $200K–$350K (Scale)

Firebase, AI platform, 30+ partner perks.

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Oracle for Startups

$100K OCI credits + 70% discount

$500 free to start.

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IBM Cloud for Startups

Varies by region/partner

watsonx AI access.

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DigitalOcean Hatch

Up to $100K

Simpler infra, developer-friendly.

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Cloudflare for Startups

Varies (perks bundle)

Workers, R2, CDN, security.

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Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst

Strong for APAC.

European data residency.

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Vultr

Up to $120K

GPU instances + storage.

GPU instances.

Anthropic Startup Program

$25K–$100K+ Claude API credits

Priority rate limits + early model access.

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OpenAI for Startups

$2,500 self → Tier 2/3 via VC referral

Often accessed via Brex/Ramp/Azure.

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NVIDIA Inception

$100K+ software, GPU discounts, DLI training

Unlocks elevated AWS Activate tiers. Best first stop for AI startups.

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Hugging Face

Discounted/credited compute

Spaces, Inference Endpoints.

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Cohere

Up to 25% off enterprise + Labs grants

Discounted AI pricing.

Voice/audio AI.

Search/answer engine API.

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AssemblyAI

Up to $150K API credits

Speech-to-text / voice AI.

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Baseten

Up to $25K deployments + $2.5K model APIs

Model serving/inference.

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Contextual AI

$1.5K credits + expert support

RAG platform.

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Arize AI

3 months free (AX Pro)

AI/LLM observability.

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GitHub for Startups

20 seats Enterprise free 12mo + $10K credits

Covers Copilot & Advanced Security.

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GitLab for Startups

12 months Ultimate free

Full DevOps platform.

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Datadog for Startups

Up to $100K credits over 1 year

APM, logs, metrics, RUM, synthetics.

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Sentry for Startups

Discounted Team & Business plans

Error & performance monitoring.

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Vercel

Credits + AI Accelerator

Frontend hosting, AI infra.

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JetBrains

Free/discounted licenses

IDE suite.

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Linear

Discounted plans

Issue tracking / project mgmt.

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Notion for Startups

$500+ credits (often via partners)

Docs, wiki, project mgmt.

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PostHog

1yr free Growth, up to 1.2B events / 200K MTUs

Product analytics.

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MongoDB for Startups

Atlas credits + Voyage AI tokens + GTM support

Document DB.

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Redis for Startups

Up to $25K Redis Cloud + AI consult

Caching / vector.

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Neo4j Aura

Aura credits + expert guidance

Graph database for AI.

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Pinecone

Usage credits + Pro support, all regions

Vector database.

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Upstash

Startup credits

Serverless Redis/Kafka.

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YugabyteDB Aeon

Free to start

Distributed PostgreSQL.

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Brex

AWS, OpenAI credits + 100+ SaaS discounts

Extensive perks network.

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Ramp

AWS, OpenAI credits + 100+ SaaS discounts

Similar to Brex.

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Mercury

GitHub (1yr free), AWS + partner perks

Friendlier for pre-funded founders.

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Stripe Atlas

AWS + Notion credits + partner deals

Cascade-unlocks many programs.

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HubSpot for Startups

Up to 90% off year 1 (CRM, marketing, sales)

Tiered discount by funding stage.

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Mailchimp

Startup credits/discounts

Email marketing.

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Amplitude for Startups

1yr free Growth plan (Scholarship)

Product analytics.

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Customer.io

Up to 12 months discounted

Messaging / lifecycle.

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Intercom for Startups

Customer messaging.

Customer support.

SOC 2 / ISO automation.

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Drata

Startup discounts

Compliance automation.

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1Password for Startups

Free/discounted

Password / secrets mgmt.

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Twilio for Startups

API credits (SMS, voice, WhatsApp, video)

+ education & Signal Conf access.

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Twilio Segment for Startups

Team Plan free up to 2yrs + $1M partner software

Bundles AWS, Intercom, Amplitude.

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Stripe Atlas

US C-Corp incorporation, EIN, founder agreements ($500 flat)

Unlocks downstream credits.

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Clerky

Startup legal paperwork

Incorporation & fundraising docs.

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Carta

Cap table management

Startup tiers available.

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Stacking strategy

Smart founders sequence applications to maximize runway. A common path:

Phase 1 — Bootstrapped (no VC)
- · NVIDIA Inception (free, unlocks better terms elsewhere)
- · Microsoft Founders Hub ($1K–$5K Azure, self-serve)
- · AWS Activate self-serve tier ($1K)
- · Stripe Atlas / Mercury / Brex (cascade-unlock partner deals)
→ ~$25K–$40K claimed with no funding
Phase 2 — Post-funding (within 12 months of round)
- · AWS Activate Portfolio ($100K) — hard 12-month deadline
- · Google Cloud Scale ($200K+)
- · Microsoft Investor Network ($150K)
→ Six-figure cloud credits — time-boxed
Phase 3 — AI & specialty
- · Anthropic Startup ($25K+ Claude), OpenAI Tier 2/3
- · Datadog, HubSpot, Vanta/Drata, MongoDB
→ Specialty AI + ops credits

Application tips

✓Use a company-domain email (not Gmail/Outlook) — the #1 rejection reason.
✓Have a real website — thin or placeholder sites get rejected.
✓Keep Crunchbase/PitchBook consistent — mismatched info triggers rejection.
✓Read the billing fine print — some programs (AWS) charge for usage above credits.
✓Track expiration dates — most credits expire in 12–24 months.
✓Don't build critical dependencies on expiring credits — use them for dev, testing, experimentation.
✓Beware stacking caveats — claiming AWS via Brex/Mercury may reduce your direct AWS Activate amount.

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