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Offer on record
CIQ startup software and support discounts
Eligible startups receive 6 months free on Fuzzball, RLC Pro AI, and RLC-H, then 80% off at the 12-month stage and 50% off at the 18 to 24 month stage, plus CIQ engineering support.
Apply at ciq.comWhat you get
- 100% offon Fuzzball, RLC Pro AI, and RLC-H · 6 months100% off for six months, with no usage limits or node restrictions, subject to terms and conditions.
- 80% offdiscount80% off at the 12-month program stage.
- 50% offdiscount50% off at the 18-24 month program stage.
- Also on recordEngineering support for architecture design, performance tuning, and deployment guidance.
- Cost variescostThe first 6 months are free; the startup then pays the discounted CIQ price at the 80% off and 50% off stages and moves to standard CIQ pricing when the 24-month program ends.
Who qualifies
One of the following, in CIQ's own words. Conditions marked checkable use facts you can state about your company; the vendor verifies the rest.
- Applicant is a venture-capital-backed AI or deep-tech startup from Seed through Series D.vendor decides · external verification
- Applicant is bootstrapped and meets significant technical milestones; CIQ evaluates this route case by case.vendor decides · vendor discretion
How to apply
- AvailabilityPublic. Anyone who meets the conditions can apply.
- MethodApplication form at ciq.com/solutions/startups
- InstructionsSelect Apply now on the program page to open CIQ's application form.
- Operated byCIQ sets the terms and handles access.
- Termsciq.com/solutions/startups
- On record since
Where this comes from
Read from ciq.com/solutions/startups on 24 Sept 2026, read live from the vendor's own page.
Title, summary, lifecycle, benefits, eligibility, roles, access and terms were read from that source.
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Offered by
CIQ is the founding commercial sponsor of Rocky Linux and makes RLC Pro enterprise Linux, the CIQ Linux Kernel, Warewulf, and the Fuzzball workload orchestration platform.
In this program
CIQ's application-based program provides six months of free access to Fuzzball, RLC Pro AI, and RLC-H, followed by 80% and 50% discount stages through month 24, with engineering support.
This is the only offer on record in the program.