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Build smarter, scale faster with our startup program
Guepard for Startups gives eligible companies platform credits and direct access to our team, so you can run production-identical database infrastructure from MVP through your next round, without re-architecting when you grow.
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Why Guepard
Why startups choose Guepard
Database infrastructure should feel visual and self-serve: clone, snapshot, branch, not like a ticket queue.
Ship without waiting on ops
Clone production, snapshot before migrations, branch per PR, visually like copying databases through time. Your engineers self-serve; you don't hire DevOps on day one.
Infrastructure that scales with you
From first deploy to Series A, run unlimited parallel environments. Credits cover platform usage so you invest runway in product, not idle staging servers.
Safe data for CI and agents
Isolated clones mean tests and AI agents never touch shared staging. Roll back with snapshots when something breaks: full fidelity, seconds not hours.
Credits, not a coupon gimmick
Up to $30,000 in Guepard platform credits over 12 months. Sized with you at application time, built for venture-backed teams building real software.
What you get
Up to $30k in credits. One year on the platform.
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We used to spend a full day getting CI databases ready for every release. With Guepard, each PR gets its own isolated clone spun up in seconds.
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Branch-per-PR became the default the day we onboarded Guepard. Our staging queue went to zero, without adding a single ops headcount.
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CTO, Airspace
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