Day 7 Team Email

Hey Team,

Quick update that I think matters more than you might realize.

We just crossed $507,000 in confirmed startup credits and partnerships.

Here's why that number is significant:

Most startups get $1,000–$2,000 in basic cloud credits. That's the standard tier. The free stuff everyone gets. We're not in that world.

AWS Activate's $100,000 Portfolio tier? That requires backing from a qualified VC, accelerator, or incubator — and even then, people get rejected repeatedly. Posts from founders show multiple rounds of rejection with no explanation. We got the full $100,000. AWS has only given out $7 billion across that program in its entire 13-year history — across hundreds of thousands of startups worldwide.

And we didn't stop there. We stacked premium-tier approvals across Cloudflare, Redis, Datadog, Atlassian, Confluent, GitLab, and more. Each one has its own vetting process. Each one looked at what Day 7 is building and opened the door.

Here's what this actually means:

Market validation. When the companies that power the internet's biggest platforms accept you into their top-tier programs, that's them saying this is real, this is going somewhere.
Runway without dilution. $507K in infrastructure we don't have to pay for. That's the equivalent of a seed round's worth of cloud spend — and we didn't give up a single share of equity to get it.
Unlocks everything. 96% of AI/ML unicorns run on AWS. We're now operating on the same infrastructure stack, at the same tier, with the same backing. That's where Genesis lives.

The typical startup might cobble together $5K–$10K in credits across a couple programs. Reaching $500K+ puts Day 7 in rare company — alongside YC-backed startups and companies that have already raised millions.

We did this pre-launch. Pre-revenue. On vision alone.

This means we can run our entire infrastructure for little to no cost for a year. And we are just getting started.

I built a live tracker so you can see every program, every dollar, every status in real time:

👉 tools.myday7.com

If you find programs or credit opportunities out there — jump in and add them. It's simple. Drop the links, the details, whatever you've got. I'll chase it down.

Carter