Atto welcomes Microsoft for Startups as a gold partner
We have some exciting news to share with the Atto community today. 🎊
We’re joining forces with Microsoft for Startups to empower the next generation of female founders. 🚀
Microsoft for Startups provides entrepreneurs and founders of startups with the cloud resources and mentoring they need in their journey from idea to exit.
I remember using Microsoft for Startups products in the early days of building my second company, CloudPeeps, so was very pumped when the team reached out via LinkedIn to connect and support.
Microsoft for Startups will provide a range of benefits (listed below) to founders from our accelerator program and is joining the 2021 program as a gold partner. 🥇 Atto Academy members, Atto alumni, and future Atto founders will also be able to access the benefits (log in via your Microsoft account).
Microsoft for Startups is not only supporting early-stage startups but, like Atto, is also committed to making entrepreneurship more accessible to all founders, no matter their background or where they are in the globe.
We have a focus on increasing diversity and access in the Atto community, including across our Educators, and it’s great to have Microsoft on-board with shared goals. 🙌
Emily Rich, Director of Microsoft for Startups, APAC & Partner at M8 Ventures will also be joining Atto’s Demo Day as a judge. Emily is a founder herself after co-founding and exiting Jemsoft, a machine learning and computer vision company. She also co-founded M8 Ventures, a venture capital fund, in 2017 whose concentration is working alongside founders to build out sustained growth strategies. We’re excited to have Emily join us and if you haven’t registered for Demo Day yet, do so here. 🗣
If you haven’t already and are interested in joining Atto, submit an EOI here. 👈
Connect with Microsoft for Startups on:
LinkedIn: /microsoftforstartups
Twitter: @msft4startups
Facebook: @Microsoft4Startups
Benefits:
Up to $120,000 USD of free Azure cloud for 2 years (Starting at $25K USD of free Azure cloud for 1 year)
Office 365 Business Standard - 10 seats, valid for 1 year
Visual Studio Enterprise (Microsoft for Startups) cloud subscription – 5 seats valid for the duration of your membership
GitHub Enterprise Monthly Subscription – 40 seats valid for the duration of your membership
Power BI Pro – 10 seats, valid for 1 year
Power Apps – 10 seats, valid for 1 year
Power Automate – 10 seats, valid for 1 year
Architectural consultations with our field engineers (App Consult and FastTrack)
Criteria:
Any software startup in market
Less than seven years in existence
You must be a privately held company with matching URLs and email addresses
You cannot have received more than $10,000 USD of free Azure in the past
You cannot be a marketing agency, professional services business, managed by a CSP, third party developer, consultant, eCommerce store, or marketplace.
Thanks so much again to Microsoft for Startups for supporting female founders. 👏👏👏
