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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Microsoft for Startups Founders membership ending — A Temporary Pause Before the Next Phase

 

Over the past 3 years, being part of the Microsoft for Startups Founders program has helped me build and push forward ambitious ideas around AI search, cybersecurity, and Post-Quantum technologies.

Unfortunately, my Microsoft for Startups credits (still have over $80k) but ending in 1 week.

As a result, most of the systems will be temporarily stopped over the coming days.

This includes most of:

  • AI experimentation infrastructure
  • Development and staging systems
  • Large-scale indexing/testing environments
  • Internal research environments
  • Certain cloud-hosted services that are expensive to maintain independently at this stage

This is not the end of the project.

  I thank Microsoft for Startup Founders, Corporate Vision Magazine, Government of U.K, Perplexity, NASSCOM 10000, my parents, my elder sister.


It is simply the reality many early-stage startups face while building ambitious technology with limited resources.

Building advanced systems in AI, search infrastructure, cybersecurity, and Post-Quantum technologies requires significant compute, storage, networking, and engineering effort. Startup credits helped accelerate innovation, but sustainable infrastructure requires sustainable growth.

Startups are rarely a straight line.
Sometimes progress looks like scaling up.

This is one of those moments.

Thank you Microsoft for Startups for supporting early innovation and helping founders experiment with technologies that would otherwise be inaccessible.

 

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Best regards,

Mr. Kanti Arumilli 


I don’t have any fake aliases, nor any virtual aliases like some of the the psycho spy R&AW traitors of India. NOT associated with the “ass”, “es”, “eka”, “ok”, “okay”, “is”, erra / yerra karan, kamalakar, diwakar, kareem, karan, erra / yerra sowmya, erra / yerra, zinnabathuni, bojja srinivas (was a friend and batchmate 1998 – 2002, not anymore – if he joined Mafia), mukesh golla (was a friend and classmate 1998 – 2002, if he joined Mafia), erra, erra, thota veera, uttam’s, bandhavi’s, bhattaru’s, thota’s, bojja’s, bhattaru’s or Arumilli srinivas or Arumilli uttam(may be they are part of a different Arumilli family – not my Arumilli family).




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Microsoft for Startups Founders membership ending — A Temporary Pause Before the Next Phase

  Over the past 3 years, being part of the Microsoft for Startups Founders program has helped me build and push forward ambitious ideas arou...