The offer is designed for early-stage startups building on CircleCI for the first time. You’re eligible if you meet all of the following: New to CircleCI, or on Free plan Pre-Seed through Series A Founded within the last 5 years Part of a recognized accelerator or VC. If none, proof of funding for a minimum of $500K USD raised
CircleCI offers up to $20,000 in free compute credits — for the only CI/CD platform capable of scaling with fast-growing AI and software startups.
Direct apply at gitpod.io/startups; 2 years free cloud dev environments
Gitpod for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 2 years free access to Gitpod — the cloud development environment platform that provides instant; ephemeral developer workspaces in the browser without local setup.
Direct apply at bitrise.io/solutions/startup; mobile CI/CD
Bitrise for Startups gives qualifying early-stage mobile teams 20% off their first year of Bitrise — the leading low-code CI/CD platform for mobile app development with automated testing and fast build infrastructure.
Early-stage startups; new DeepSource customers; engineering teams using GitHub; GitLab; or Bitbucket
DeepSource for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the DeepSource static analysis platform — automatically detecting bugs; anti-patterns; performance issues; and security flaws during code review.
Listed benefit20 Ultimate seats free for one year for eligible seed-stage startups
New customers with external funding: up to $5M for the seed tier or up to $20M for Series A/B. Funding evidence is required; self-funded companies do not qualify.
Pre-seed/seed companies can receive up to twenty Ultimate seats for year one and 50% off year two. Series A/B companies receive 50% off year one and 25% off year two instead. Support is excluded from the free offer.
Direct apply at incident.io/industry/startups; no partner required
incident.io for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to incident.io — the modern incident management platform for on-call; runbooks; status pages; and post-mortems built for engineering teams.
Pulumi for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies a significant discount on the Pulumi Cloud platform — the leading Infrastructure as Code tool letting teams provision cloud infrastructure using real programming languages.
Direct apply at temporal.io/startup; no partner required
Temporal for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $6000 in Temporal Cloud credits; onboarding support; and dedicated technical help — the durable workflow execution platform for building reliable distributed systems and AI agents.
Listed benefit$10,000 in GitHub platform credits for up to 12 months
Requires an approved startup partner, external funding through Series B or earlier, no Enterprise plan within six months and no previous GitHub startup credits/licenses. Standard Enterprise Cloud accounts only; a valid payment method is required.
Credits cover eligible GitHub Enterprise licenses and add-ons including Copilot, Advanced Security and metered products. The previous startup offer is discontinued; remaining paid services bill normally after expiry or exhaustion.
Listed benefitIncluded Premium products free for 12 months; up to 50 seats
Must not already be an Atlassian paid customer; must be VC-backed or affiliated with a partner accelerator/incubator; external funding must not exceed $10M.
Eligible startups receive the included Atlassian Cloud products free for one year. Several products allow 50 seats; Jira Service Management and Customer Service Management allow 10, and Jira Product Discovery allows 10 creators.
Listed benefitUp to 400,000 monthly credits for eligible open-source builds
For qualifying open-source projects using the CircleCI open-source plan. Resource classes consume credits at different rates.
The open-source plan includes up to 400,000 monthly credits for Linux, Arm and Docker builds, plus 30,000 credits for macOS and Windows. Credits are not build minutes.
Listed benefitFree Business access through an approved Linear partner
Non-paying Linear customer with fewer than fifty employees and affiliation with an official program partner. A signed-in workspace administrator must redeem the offer.
Affiliated startups receive Business-plan access through their partner's redemption link. The public page does not state a universal six-month duration. After the free period, the workspace returns to Free unless upgraded.