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title: "Pulumi for Startups"
description: "Pulumi for Startups gives early-stage teams up to $10,000 in credits, office hours, and 12 months of runway to build cloud infrastructure as code."
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/pulumi-for-startups.png"
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# Pulumi for Startups

Pulumi for Startups gives early-stage teams up to $10,000 in credits, office hours, and 12 months of runway to build cloud infrastructure as code.

Get up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits and exclusive help for your projects

- [Apply to join](https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/#apply)
- [Read startup stories](https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/#stories)

## Help your small, nimble team scale up infrastructure

Pulumi for Startups helps early-stage companies build and deploy their cloud apps on our infrastructure as code (IaC) platform. Your team can manage and automate cloud infrastructure in the languages you already use — JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, .NET, Java, and Go — so you can adopt the cloud without learning a new domain-specific language (DSL) or dedicating a whole team to managing and scaling your infrastructure.

### Program benefits

- **Up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits:** Your whole team can build on Pulumi, with up to $10,000 in free credits.
- **Exclusive office hours and events:** Office hours and workshops to help you ship your product quickly.
- **12 months of runway:** Bill credits will be applied for up to 12 months.
- **Built for your stage:** Designed for pre-Series A companies with less than $1 million in annual revenue.

## Why startups build on Pulumi

- **Real programming languages:** Use loops, conditionals, functions, and classes, catch errors at compile time, reuse code across projects, and refactor with confidence.
- **Hundreds of providers:** Full API coverage for all major clouds: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes — plus service providers like Cloudflare, Datadog, and GitHub.
- **Test before you ship:** Write unit tests for your infra code, integration tests for pre-prod environments, smoke tests for releases — all with industry-standard tools.
- **Put agents to work:** Equip your agents with best-practices skills and use Neo, our infrastructure agent, for more complex tasks, debugging, and code generation.
- **Eliminate secrets sprawl:** Fetch secret values from any supported store with a single Pulumi Cloud access token. No more juggling multiple credentials manually.
- **Self-service options:** Code, low-code YAML, or no-code portals. Engineers can work the way they prefer with consistent governance.

## Startup success stories

> Pulumi supercharged our whole organization and empowered our developer teams to self-provision resources and ship new capabilities faster without having to wait for the infrastructure team to deploy new resources on their behalf.
>
> — Igor Shapiro, Principal Engineer, Lemonade

- [Panther Labs](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/panther-labs/): With Pulumi, Panther Labs was able to provide innovative solutions to their customers quickly, which is a clear advantage for a startup.
- [Lemonade](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/lemonade/): Lemonade's Ops team supports a much larger group of developers by using Pulumi to standardize infrastructure components and enforce best practices.
- [Sourcegraph](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/sourcegraph/): Pulumi helps to supercharge Kubernetes deployments at Sourcegraph, ensuring their team has continuous access to the latest builds.
- [Aptos Labs](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/aptos/): Aptos Labs used Pulumi to transform development, increasing velocity by up to 10x while improving security, compliance, and cost control.
- [Compostable AI](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/compostable-ai/): Learn how this Edinburgh-based AI platform company deploys from contract to production in one day, with two backend engineers managing infrastructure for 19 clients using AI agents and Pulumi.
- [Spear AI](https://www.pulumi.com/customers/spear-ai/): Defense tech startup accelerates compliance timelines to bring capabilities to market up to 6x faster while enabling rapid deployment across air-gapped cloud and edge environments.

## Apply for the startup program

Designed for pre-Series A companies with less than $1 million in annual revenue.

Fill in the form on the page: https://www.pulumi.com/pulumi-for-startups/#apply