Global Stars Program

We help you to build your solution with dedicated support and developer tools.

We provide you some free Professional Services credits (one working day) in order to help you to achieve the best performing product at the lowest Total Cost of Ownership.

• Design help on radio chip, antenna, battery, etc.
• Introduction to partners to help your industrialization process (Design houses, EMS, etc.)

Request custom support!

Join our Builders’ Slack group to ask your questions and reach out to other people from the ecosystem.

• Get technical answers from Sigfox engineers
• Enjoy cross-knowledge sharing with the community
• Share your feedback 

We also have a dedicated channel for Global Stars where we share with you new perks and relevant information. Feel free to join!

  Sigfox Learning Center, your learning experience in 5 steps:

• Discover: introduction to IoT, Sigfox Tech, IoT business case 
• Practice: technical quick start, dev kit activation and tutorial 
• Learn: prototyping, next step in Sigfox Tech and business application 
• Develop: technical dive, IoT platform, from PoC to Prod 
• Expand: Sigfox specification, certification, industrialization 

Each step of the journey is presenting article, webinar, blog post and video. 

Each content is identified as Tech or Business and qualified as Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced or Expert, to help you navigate through the list of content.   

AWS benefits:

We teamed with AWS to give you the best conditions to build your business. As part of the Sigfox Global Stars Program, you are eligible for the following offer if you meet the AWS requirements: 

• $10,000 in AWS Promotional Credit valid for 2 years.
• 1 year of AWS Business Support (up to $5,000).
• 80 credits for Self-Paced Labs ($80 value).

If you want to benefit from this offer, please send an email at: alexandra.lucke@sigfox.com

GCP benefits: 

We joined forces with the Google Cloud for Startups Program, and we'd love to offer Global Stars the Spark package.

Startups eligible for* the Spark Package will receive $20,000 in Google Cloud Platform and Firebase Credits, good for 12 months.In addition to Google Cloud Platform Credits, startups are eligible for: 

• Invitations to exclusive, local Google Cloud events.   
• Access to Hire FREE for 6 months - a $600 value. (Currently only available in the U.S.)
• $500 in Qwiklabs credits to kickstart your company's hands-on lab training initiatives.
• $200/month for Google Maps API, good for 12 months.
• One year of free G Suite (up to 10 users - only valid for new domains) or a year of discounted upgrades to G Suite Business or G Suite Enterprise.
• An opportunity to apply for our Surge program to extend your credits to up to $100,000 for a second year as your business continues to grow.

To benefit from this offer, please send an email at: alexandra.lucke@sigfox.com

*Cloud Credits are available for early-stage, technology-based startup companies that are focused on growth potential, based in an approved territory, have not previously received promotional Cloud credits outside of the free-tier offering, are less than 5 years old, and have not raised more than a Series A. 

As a Global Star, you can benefit from preferential prices for your device certification. 

The outcomes of the Sigfox Ready certification for the partner are:

• A certificate allowing to register the devices on the Sigfox network.
• Access to the Sigfox Partner Network to advertise the company and its products.
• The right to use the Sigfox Ready™ logo for the packaging & communication material.

Normally, you already have access to this discount (thanks to a special tag on the Sigfox Backend). If it is not the case, please let us know.

We guide you in the implementation of your Go-To-Market strategy, and help you be more visible.

We want to give you the best chances to enter your market properly.

To do so, we are currently creating a guide to help you step by step with your go-to-market strategy implementation. 

In the meantime, we can coach you: feel free to ask for advice! 

As a Global Star, you can benefit from different actions that allow you to increase your visibility within the ecosystem. That aims to bring you more and more inbound leads:

• Infographic & News highlight on Sigfox Social Networks: send us the news or content you need us to
  share on our social media.
• Your products exhibited in our showrooms worldwide.
• Possibility of showcase on Sigfox booth for free at Vertical specific events – Depending on availability
• Preferential prices for a booth at Sigfox Connect.
• One yearly blog post on Sigfox corporation website.
• One yearly video on Sigfox YouTube account.

Request co-marketing actions!

We help you to sell your solution worldwide and to raise funds.

The hardest part during your startup journey is to sell your solution, because of the multitude of actors involved in this process. We can help you get visibility, with a worldwide workforce pitching your solution to end-customers.

• Specific promotion on the Partner Network. Help on your company and solutions pages and ranking optimization. To get support on this matter, please contact annette.kirotar@sigfox.com.   
• Specific Promotion to Sigfox Operators & their local channels partners via a solution catalog. Be part of our catalog dedicated to Global Stars solutions gathering all information and features needed to pitch your solution. Sigfox Operators salespeople will be then able to promote your solution to potential customers locally.

The development cycle for an IoT end-to-end solution is quite long and costly. Fundraising is therefore crucial. We want to give you the best chance to raise funds whenever you need it.

• Coaching to help you to build your pitch deck .
• Specific Promotion to our VC partners via a solution catalog and other medium.
• Introduction to these VCs.