We received 20,000 $ from Google to Scale Up.

Wilfried Durand
Onvey
Published in
2 min readSep 14, 2017

We have great news, Onvey is granted access to the Google Cloud Platform for Startups Spark Package program. This means Google is offering us $20,000 credits on their products!

As a self-funded company, we feel privileged as this offer is usually distributed among startups part of an approved VC fund, accelerator, or incubator.

How will this benefit to us and to our customers?

Technical Infrastructure Improvement

With GCP, Google makes available a large bunch of services that work great together. It is (in our opinion) one of the best cloud solutions for startups considering the cost/service/value ratio it offers.

We currently use tens of virtual servers to distribute our services to all. We are very careful with our technical setup and configuration — as well as internal process — to guarantee a maximum of security, reliability, and scalability, with minimum efforts.

To be honest, until yesterday our technical costs were under a budget and we couldn’t afford yet to fulfill all the requirements of best-in-class technology infrastructure. We can now consider upgrading our systems to bring more redundancy, stronger replication, and backup systems, as well as more powerful machines.

Extra budget available to our product offers

Having our technical costs down to almost 0$ for a little while, we will reinvest this budget into our products.

We will bring new skills to the team with recruitments earlier than planned, to scale and improve our services faster.

We will also introduce a free plan to our services, starting with Pagescreen in the coming weeks and followed by Userpace for its public launch.

Stay tuned!

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