Data Platform
MotherDuck
Listed offer value
$16,000Paid: $8,000 annual commit, <20 staff, <$5M VC
Eligibility & conditions
MotherDuck is a serverless analytics warehouse built on DuckDB, used for usage analytics, customer-facing dashboards and agent eval workloads. Its startup program is a 50 percent discount, not free credits: you commit to $8,000 for one year and receive $16,000 of product, which is $13,000 in consumption credits plus the $3,000 per year platform fee waived. The discount sits on top of the standard 7 day free trial, and Free plan users can apply while customers on paid plans cannot. Eligibility is public and mechanical, but the annual contract has to be signed within 3 months of acceptance or the discount lapses.
Captured Oct 28, 2026View source
How to apply
5 steps- Check the four eligibility rules on the vendor page: you are not an existing MotherDuck paying customer (Free plan is fine), you have a live non-stealth website, you have fewer than 20 employees, and you have raised less than $5M in VC funding. Bootstrapped companies qualify.
- Open https://motherduck.com/startups/ and fill in the application form. Use a company email address, personal email addresses are rejected outright.
- Answer the form questions: how you heard about the program, how much funding you have raised, how you plan to use MotherDuck, and what other data tooling you use. Enter a coupon code in the ADD COUPON field if your VC, accelerator or incubator gave you one.
- Submit the form and wait for the MotherDuck team to review. Accepted startups are contacted by their support team to go over goals and setup.
- Sign the annual contract within 3 months of acceptance. Past that window the 50 percent discount expires, and it cannot be combined with other offers.
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