IONOS Cloud Startup Programme
Gives eligible startups up to €100,000 in IONOS Cloud service credit, usable over as long as 24 months, through its SPARK and ACCELERATE tiers.
The headline figure of up to €100,000 only applies to the ACCELERATE tier; the entry-level SPARK tier tops out at €5,000. IONOS itself decides which tier an applicant gets during its own selection process, and there is no right to request a specific tier or to switch tiers later. SPARK credit covers 100% of invoices until it runs out, while ACCELERATE covers the first €10,000 in full and then 50% …
IONOS Cloud backs newly founded companies building on its European, GDPR-compliant cloud, from a first MVP through international scaling. It funds cloud infrastructure spend rather than any particular product sector, so any registered company under five years old with a company website can apply. IONOS itself assigns applicants to one of two tiers — SPARK for early builders, ACCELERATE for scaling workloads — based on their stage.
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