Zendesk — Zendesk for Startups
Six months of Zendesk at no cost, usually claimed through fintech and banking partner perk packs rather than directly. A straightforward win if you already know you want a ticketing system, and easy to access through a banking relationship you were opening anyway.
What you need to qualify
- Early-stage startup
- Typically routed through a partner perk pack
Before you submit
- Company domain email, not a personal address
- Live public website that describes a product, not a coming-soon page
- Company profile findable on LinkedIn, X or GitHub
- Incorporation documents and funding evidence to hand
- Confirm the company has not claimed credits from this program before, under any entity
Other programs in this category
Free to join, no fees and no equity. The direct value is preferred pricing on select NVIDIA hardware and software, free cloud credits from NVIDIA and its partners, and free self-paced technical training. The indirect value is often bigger: Inception Capital Connect makes investor introductions, and membership is a recognized signal that unlocks better tiers in other programs.
The steepest discount curve in go-to-market software: 90% off year one, then 50% off year two and 25% off year three for startups that raised a pre-seed, seed or Series A round and are either partner-affiliated or have venture funding verifiable on Crunchbase or PitchBook. A lower tier gives 30% off year one and 15% off year two through approved entrepreneurial organizations.
Incorporating through Atlas unlocks a bundle of partner offers alongside the company formation itself — cloud credits, SaaS discounts and tooling from a rotating partner list. Most valuable at the very start: if you have not incorporated yet, routing the formation through Atlas is one of the cheapest ways to trigger several partner perks at once.