Build faster. Scale with confidence.
Go to market with Oracle.
Oracle Startup Growth Engine is a programme for selected startups and digital native companies ready to build and scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), connect with Oracle’s enterprise ecosystem, and unlock new routes to market through Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
“High-growth technology companies truly have great ideas, but they actually need more than great ideas—they need the infrastructure, expertise, and market access to turn innovation into commercial success.”
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Build on OCI
Strengthen performance, security, and scalability.
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Prepare for enterprise
Refine your product and commercial proposition.
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Reach the market
Explore Oracle Cloud Marketplace and joint go-to-market opportunities.
A growth journey built around your product
Cloud credits can help you get started. As your needs grow, scale on enterprise-grade infrastructure, get hands-on guidance, connect with Oracle’s ecosystem, and explore routes to market.
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Build a stronger product
Validate the architecture behind your product and prepare it for demanding application, data, and AI workloads.
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Scale with greater control
Improve performance, security, resilience, and infrastructure economics as customer demand grows.
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Create market opportunity
Strengthen your enterprise proposition and explore Oracle Cloud Marketplace and joint go-to-market opportunities with Oracle.
Build on OCI
OCI can support demanding cloud native, data, and AI workloads while helping your team balance performance, security, scalability, and cost visibility.
Turn your next stage of growth into a stronger cloud foundation
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AI
AI and high performance infrastructure
Build, train, and run compute-intensive AI workloads on infrastructure built to scale.
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Apps
Cloud native applications
Use Kubernetes and other application services to deploy and evolve your product.
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Data
Data and databases
Bring services for applications and data together to support reliable, responsive customer experiences.
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Control
Security, sovereignty, and choice
Explore deployment options that can support enterprise, regulatory, and multicloud requirements.
Go to market with Oracle
Bring your product closer to enterprise buyers
For selected companies with commercially ready products, Oracle Startup Growth Engine can help build a route to market through Oracle Cloud Marketplace and joint go-to-market opportunities.
Technology is only one part of scaling a business. The next challenge is making your product easier to understand, buy, and adopt.
Oracle can help qualified programme participants sharpen their enterprise proposition, prepare their commercial offer, and explore joint go-to-market activities where there’s strong customer and market fit.
Positioning
Sharpen your enterprise proposition
Clarify the target buyers, priority use cases, business value, packaging, and proof points that matter in complex enterprise conversations.
Marketplace
Prepare for Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Work toward the commercial terms, technical requirements, support, and listing materials needed to offer your product through Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
Buy
Make purchasing simpler
Explore marketplace transaction models and customer-specific commercial offers, including private offers where applicable.
Go to market
Explore joint routes to market
Where there’s a mutual fit, work with Oracle to align on target industries and use cases, seek customer validation, identify opportunities to pitch customers, and explore co-marketing and co-selling activities.
Position 01Define target buyers, the business value your product provides, and priority use cases.
Prepare 02Review your packaging, support model, and product readiness.
Publish 03Create the right Oracle Cloud Marketplace presence.
Engage 04Align on qualified market opportunities.
Grow 05Develop customer proof points and a repeatable go-to-market approach.
Marketplace publication and joint go-to-market activities depend on product readiness, applicable Oracle Cloud Marketplace requirements, customer relevance, and mutual alignment with Oracle teams.
Support that adapts to your journey
Selected startups may access a combination of cloud support, onboarding, technical guidance, learning, partner enablement, and go-to-market activities based on their needs and readiness.
Get the right help for the stage you’re in
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Cloud
Cloud support
Access credits or other approved incentives to help validate and advance workloads.
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Technical
Technical guidance
Work with Oracle specialists on architecture, deployment, testing, and optimisation.
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Learning
Learning and onboarding
Use structured resources to help your technical and business teams navigate the programme.
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Marketplace
Partner and marketplace enablement
Get guidance on Oracle PartnerNetwork and Oracle Cloud Marketplace readiness and commercial opportunities.
Is this programme for you?
Oracle Startup Growth Engine is designed for ambitious startups with a validated product and room to scale. Oracle reviews each application to understand the company, its product, the proposed workload, commercial readiness, and the growth opportunity. Your company may be a good fit if it:
- Has a proprietary technology product validated with customers or active pilots
- Builds software, data, cloud native, or AI-based products
- Shows clear potential to scale and grow sustainably
- Has a defined workload that can be developed or migrated to OCI
- Addresses relevant enterprise or industry use cases and is ready to commit leadership and technical resources to the journey
Tell us about your company, product, customers, and growth plans.
Selected companies review the workload, goals, and opportunity with Oracle.
Agree on the right support and milestones, then test, deploy, or optimise on OCI.
As your product matures, explore Oracle PartnerNetwork, Oracle Cloud Marketplace, and joint go-to-market opportunities.
Oracle Startup Growth Engine frequently asked questions
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What to know before you apply
- Is the programme only for AI startups?
The programme can support qualified software, data, cloud native, and AI companies with a relevant OCI workload and growth opportunity.
- Does every participant receive the same support?
Support is tailored to the company, workload, maturity, and agreed journey, subject to eligibility and approval.
- Does acceptance in the programme guarantee customer introductions or co-selling activities?
Customer-facing and joint go-to-market activities depend on product readiness, customer relevance, mutual fit, and an agreed plan with Oracle.
- Does the programme guarantee Oracle Cloud Marketplace publication?
Oracle Cloud Marketplace publication is subject to applicable technical, commercial, legal, support, and programme requirements.
- Does acceptance guarantee customer introductions or co-sell?
Marketplace publication is subject to applicable technical, commercial, legal, support and programme requirements.
- Should I review the Oracle Startup Growth Engine terms and conditions?
Yes. Review the Oracle Startup Growth Engine terms and conditions before you apply. They set out the terms that apply to participation in the programme.
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