Grants
We are built on things other people gave away. Ostrich, Sparrow and Pelican are us putting something back: no equity, no revenue share, no card on file, and no clause that turns the gift into a bill.
Ostrich · Sparrow · Pelican
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For companies: partnership firms, LLPs and private limited companies.
Each year we reserve $30M of Minimal Core licences. Each grant is $100K to $300K, roughly 100M to 300M requests served on your own hardware. Nothing is charged at the end.
$30Mreserved every year.
For students, companies with two founders and stealth startups.
$1M of credit on Minimal’s cloud products, committed over 24 months. It covers what is live when you are accepted and extends to each new product as it opens.
$1Mof cloud credit over 24 months.
For qualifying non-profit organisations.
A Minimal Core licence at no charge, renewed on review each year. Unlike Ostrich, Pelican has no annual cap: every organisation that passes review is granted one.
No Cap
One application covers all three programmes. You tell us on it what you are: a company, a non-profit, or a student, a two-founder company or a stealth startup. We review it and offer the programme that fits, which is our call to make.