CTT established a partnership with Microsoft to support startups that use the 1520 program to accelerate their ideas or business solutions. Microsoft for Startups is a startup support program that provides access to business, technology and community benefits, helping startups build a trusted platform that grows with them.

The CTT / Microsoft agreement aims to take advantage of complementarities and synergies in several areas, as well as to provide advantages for startups of the CTT 1520 Startup program, namely:

• Direct access to Microsoft for Startups program benefits when criteria eligibility applies (*)
• Access to Microsoft Technical & Commercial Mentors (1X1 approach)
• Tech & Commercial sessions with Microsoft Experts dedicated to CTT 1520 Startup network

(*) criteria

1. Startups must be engaged in the development of a software based product or service that will form a core piece of their current or intended business. This software must be owned, not licensed.
2. Startups must be privately held. Pre Seed, Seed, Series A C stage (or equivalent).
3. The startups are not an educational institution, government entity, personal blog, dev shop, consultancy, agency, bitcoin or crypto mining company.
4. Startups must not have previously been enrolled in a Microsoft for Startups program.