Microsoft for Startups - applying a second time

Question

Note I could not find a forum for this and no email address for the startups program so I put it here

I previously was accepted into the Microsoft for Startups program and was given the initial Azure credits. I started building my product but did not have enough time to focus on building and launching it at the time so the credits expired (I did use some of them).

I've been bootstrapping the startup now on a different product and have spent over $10k in Azure costs and plan to spend ~$3k / month and that will continue to grow. I am hitting a point where my cloud costs are becoming the bottleneck because I'm a while out from launching and I'd also like to access other Microsoft startup benefits like architecture support, training, and access to AI models.

I'm building an AI first startup, I'm happy to setup a new domain, company, tenant etc but when I tried to apply again the verification process uses LinkedIn and I get an error saying 'conflict'.

My tech stack so far is Azure Service Bus, Fabric, Cosmos DB, Function App, ADLS, AI Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework. I'm building a B2B AI product.

Can I apply again for the Microsoft for Startups program?

Error message when attempting to verify with LinkedIn:

Answer 1

Have a look at:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5848568/can-you-reapply-for-microsoft-for-startups-to-rece