$500k of Azure credit for YC startups

by Sam Altman2/9/2015

Over the last month, we’ve announced special deals to help
YC biotech and hardware companies.

But we don’t want to leave YC software companies out. 

We are happy to announce the Microsoft will be giving
$500,000 of free Azure hosting credit to YC startups in our Winter
2015 batch and future batches. 
This is a big deal for many startups—it’s common for hosting to be the
second largest expense after salaries. 
Microsoft is also giving YC startups three years of Office 365, access
to Microsoft developer staff, and one year of free CloudFlare enterprise services and DataStax software.

This brings the total value of special offers extended to each
YC company to well over $1,000,000.  The
relentless nagging from partners to grow faster we throw in for free.

Author

  • Sam Altman

    Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He was the president of YC from 2014-2019. He studied computer science at Stanford, and while there, worked in the AI lab.