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Backed to build

Credible companies put real resources behind the work.

Startup programs exist to back ideas worth betting on, and they don't hand out access lightly. Over the years my ideas and ventures have been backed by the programs of the very companies whose tools I build with. None of it is investment I raised. It's support they chose to put behind the work.

$350K+In credits, compute, tooling & SaaS, backed by the programs
Six figures+$ of my own capital in hardware & R&D, invested alongside
A dozen+programsHave chosen to back the work over the past few years
AWS · Microsoft
NVIDIA · Google
AssemblyAI
Among the companies behind it
A / The programsWho's backed the work

Support put behind my ideas — program by program.

Speech-AI
AssemblyAI — Startup Program
Speech-AI credits powering the large-scale transcription and media-understanding R&D.
Cloud
Microsoft for Startups — Founders Hub
Azure cloud and enterprise tooling.
Cloud
Google for Startups — Cloud Program
Google Cloud infrastructure and credits.
Cloud
AWS Activate
AWS cloud infrastructure and credits.
GPU
NVIDIA Inception
GPU access, ecosystem, and go-to-market support for AI startups.
Compute
OVHcloud — Startup Program
Bare-metal and cloud compute.
Compute
Modal — Startup Program
Serverless GPU compute for AI workloads.
Dev infra
Daytona — Startup Program
Developer infrastructure and credits.
Tooling
Atlassian for Startups
The full Jira + Confluence suite.
Voice-AI
ElevenLabs
Voice-AI generation credits.
Workspace
Google Workspace for Startups
Workspace across the team, fees waived.

Some of this is credits, some compute, some tooling, and my own capital sits alongside all of it. The point isn't the line items. It's that company after company looked at the work and decided to back it.

Approaching half a million dollars of credits, compute, and my own capital, put behind the work over the past few years.

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