Sentry AI has been very lucky to have an active and supportive group of investors. Here's a great example where one of our investors went way beyond opening the wallet and helped us get extremely valuable cloud credits. 

We had received $240K from Amazon AWS, $100K from Google Cloud, and $120K from IBM Cloud, and these were invaluable for an AI SaaS startup to get off the ground, prove the concept and offer a free pilot of the product to prospects. By the April of 2021, we had run out of these credits and were looking for ways to manage our burn while still building the business. Microsoft for Startups program was not accepting new entries and we did not receive any response from the standard channels.

That's when our investor who works at Microsoft asked around internally, found the group that drives this program, introduced us to the program leader, and ensured that we had an opportunity to present our case. Once the team reviewed our application and saw the potential, we were promptly approved for $120,000 in Azure cloud credits!!!

Our engineering and R&D teams are excited to partner with Microsoft and have this opportunity to continue building highly innovative and accurate deep learning models that haven't been done in the security and safety industry to date!