Microsoft for Startups

Microsoft for Startups removes barriers to building a company with free access to tech, coaching, and support you need to hit your next milestone.

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Building a startup takes more than speed. It takes the right support. 🚀

Annie Pearl shares how Microsoft for Startups helps founders build fast, scale smart, and sell more with credits, technical guidance, GTM support, and marketplace opportunities.

Apply to Microsoft for Startups: https://t.co/x5ynXCPeuM

#MicrosoftForStartups #Startups #AI

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Building fast is table stakes. Microsoft for Startups just made the harder part easier.

New program, new opportunities for founders ready to scale and sell.

🔗 https://t.co/YhvnVjGNg1

#MicrosoftForStartups #AIStartups

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Y Combinator is partnering with @microsoft to support the founders building the next wave of AI-native companies.

@ycombinator builds internally on @Azure and #MicrosoftFoundry, and through this expanded partnership, founders in the #YC ecosystem get access to that same infrastructure: Startup credits, GPU access, and enterprise go-to-market pathways.

Learn more about the partnership: https://t.co/eImgFkurUE

#MicrosoftForStartups #YCombinator #Startups

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Picking the most powerful model isn't the hard part anymore. Operating it in production is.

Model selection, evals, cost optimization, governance.

A practical dev guide to getting this right in Microsoft Foundry: https://t.co/ShRuOYexhG

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Microsoft Build 2026 delivered. Here's what it means for AI founders: 5 announcements, zero fluff.

🔗 https://t.co/YAzafCKYUF

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Builders showed up, San Francisco delivered.

Thanks to everyone who made Dev Your Own Way one for the books. 🛠️

#MicrosoftforStartups #MSBuild

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Paris. Rooftop. France vs. Senegal.

Kicking off VivaTech week with @Microsoft and partners on June 16. Founders and investors building and backing the next wave of innovation.

Spots are limited. Register: https://t.co/fe5sxTW60x

#VivaTech #WorldCup2026

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Bold ideas deserve the biggest stages. Behind every bold idea is a founder pushing it forward, and @msft4startups is here to support every step of the journey. #NYTechWeek #MicrosoftForStartups

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Microsoft for Startups is introducing a simpler path to help founders build fast, scale smart, and sell more.

Startups can now apply directly, start building with Startup credits, and unlock more benefits as they grow on @Azure.

Read the blog: https://t.co/aMG63CfWPY

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Join us at 9:30 a.m. PT tomorrow to follow our live blog and learn more about Microsoft’s latest updates in AI powered tools and platforms for developers and beyond. https://t.co/Y27MlMLwJ0

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Microsoft Build 2026 is this Monday. If you're still on the fence, here's your nudge.

Before you go:
📋 Sessions built for startup founders → https://t.co/QoVjNXjeHY

🚀 Startups to Watch at Build → https://t.co/7ITIsE8h9j

🏆 Imagine Cup is back → https://t.co/Wm6HOj47Pn

Register now → https://t.co/5ylZ0pXqzR

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The Microsoft Build edition of The AI Digest is live.

Sessions to attend, startups to watch, the Imagine Cup reveal, and founder stories from the teams actually shipping AI in production.

Everything you need for Build week. 🔗 https://t.co/buCMcVWz8a

#MicrosoftBuild #AIStartups #MicrosoftForStartups

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Last call for Dev Your Own Way.

Registration closes tomorrow. Join us for an after-hours #MicrosoftBuild reception with founders, devs, technical experts, and the startup ecosystem.

No slide decks. Just real conversations, real tools, and people actually building.

Register: https://t.co/IyB20BdBxC

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Healthcare founders in Boston: join us June 9 for an invite-only panel and networking evening with @FlareCapital and @LRVHealth.

Real talk on AI traction, enterprise sales, and fundraising in 2026. Space is limited, registration closes June 2.

🔗 https://t.co/qJc4WOuizX

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Your startup's work deserves recognition.

The 2026 Microsoft for Startups Partner of the Year Awards are open. If you're a B2B startup building on @Azure, Power Platform, or Microsoft 365, nominations open in June.

Get ahead and start your submission now: https://t.co/Rz2LpcmgrF

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If you're heading to New York for @TechWeek_ we have six events lined up with something for every stage of the founder journey.

📍 New York, New York

➡️ Founder Exchange: Early Builders in the AI Era
Sunday, June 1 | 7:00pm–10:00pm EDT
🔗 https://t.co/cP9hCmqT1A

➡️ The AI Founder Playbook: Breakfast & Panel @Microsoft
Monday, June 2 | 8:30am–12:00pm EDT
🔗 https://t.co/cUEFQWfgpy

➡️ @EverywhereVentures Pre-Seed Founders Breakfast
Tuesday, June 2 | 9:00am–11:00am EDT
🔗 https://t.co/UJtmhViy2b?

➡️ Founders x Funders Breakfast with @SerenaVentures, @LinkedIn, and Microsoft for Startups
Wednesday, June 3 | 9:00am–12:00pm EDT
🔗 https://t.co/jtLpuWhBAl

➡️ VC Reverse Pitch with Founders & Funders and Microsoft for Startups
Thursday, June 4 | 10:00am–1:00pm EDT
🔗 https://t.co/fAwO9h24QV?

➡️ From Idea to Live MVP in 6 Hours with @GitHub Copilot
Thursday, June 4 | 9:30am–4:30pm EDT
🔗 [Registration link]

#NYTechWeek

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The startups joining us at #MSBuild 2026 are working on the problems that sit between a promising AI demo and something that actually runs in production.

Meet the cohort building on Azure.

🔗 https://t.co/d3yzNLMFpn

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Cloud incidents don't wait. But most engineering teams are still manually digging through logs, jumping between dashboards, and hoping they find root cause before the damage compounds.

@NeubirdAI flips that. Agentic AI on @Azure that actively investigates, correlates signals, and gets teams from detection to resolution in minutes. One enterprise customer cut investigation time by 60%.

This is what AI-powered cloud ops actually looks like: https://t.co/fr5vxOaMCf

#Azure #AIStartups #CloudOps #MicrosoftForStartups

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Not all the good stuff at Build happens on the main stage.

Join Microsoft for Startups on June 2 for Dev Your Own Way.

Hands-on activations with @GitHub, @FireworksAI_HQ and @NVIDIAforStartups. Real conversations with founders and technical experts. Custom AI swag, food trucks, and a DJ.

Come ready to build, leave with new workflows and new connections.

Register now:
https://t.co/WITttqRJWe

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Building with AI and moving fast?

#MicrosoftBuild is coming to SF June 2–3. Learn to fine-tune models on a startup budget, ship agent architectures, and scale AI features without the enterprise overhead. 🚀

Register and learn more 🔗 https://t.co/0jq87LJPVQ

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Biotech's next era won't be won in the lab alone.

It'll be won by the teams who build systems that turn insight into evidence, and evidence into scale.

Five trends shaping AI-native biotech: https://t.co/YOPOVER1tz

#Biotech #LifeSciences #AIinHealthcare #HealthTech