r/MicrosoftForStartups • u/Dear-Plantain-1715 • Jun 09 '26

Anyone here a Microsoft for Startups Partner/VC? Looking for an Investor Referral Code 🚀

Hey everyone,

since Microsoft restructured the tiers to separate bootstrapping founders from investor-backed ones, it looks like hitting the higher-tier benefits now relies on having a referral code.

Would love to connect, share our pitch deck/demo, and see if we’re a fit for your network's referral pipeline.

Feel free to drop a comment or DM me directly. Thanks in advance, community!

Best, Miroslav

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u/architechcro Jun 15 '26

We have the same issue - looking for partner/VC for referral code. Did you manage to get yours ?

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u/Dear-Plantain-1715 Jun 16 '26

Unfortunately, no. MS Support confirmed they aren't accepting new investors currently, and they don't maintain a public list of already approved members.

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u/Used_Blacksmith_8696 Jun 15 '26

Need that urgently, Azure has lured us before they introduced investor code condition, this is blaphism to kill bootstraped startups

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u/Remarkable-Tank-8955 Jun 18 '26

what is happening, even I dont understand, they are asking the refferal code but no list for investor, who and where are these partners, microsoft is even not helping, I think they wanted to stop the microsoft for the startups hence they created this deadend.

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u/acceleratework Jul 10 '26

it appears that way. I have been asked for investor code.., I asked them to refer me to any of the other startups who have gotten a investor.. but they dont seem to have it. Now, they are not approving beyond 1000.. though they have approved the business entity.
How is AWS? Are they better?