Microsoft for Startups accepted Provsy: $100,000 in Azure credits
By Provsy Team
On June 25th, with exam season winding down and teachers finally getting their evenings back, we got the news: Provsy has been accepted into Microsoft for Startups, with $100,000 in Azure credits.
Full disclosure on why this one matters more than most: Provsy's AI already runs on Azure. This isn't a sign-up-then-figure-it-out situation. The models that draft our questions, check them for bias and write our study materials run on Azure OpenAI today. These credits don't fund some future plan. They fund the exact bill we already pay every month.
What a question paper actually costs
Walk through one paper with us. A teacher on our Standard plan opens Provsy, picks SS2 Chemistry, and selects the topics covered this term. Provsy drafts the objective section, then the theory section, each aligned to the class syllabus. Before the teacher sees a single question, every item passes a bias check: names, contexts and assumptions should reflect the students actually sitting the paper. Then it's formatted, either print-ready or pushed to the student portal for online taking. Every step in that chain is model inference, and a Standard school can run 150 exams and 300 tests in one term.
And generation is only the start. Students on Standard get revision PDFs, flashcards, practice quizzes and summary AI podcasts; Premium schools get the detailed podcast versions and weekly guardian reports, two per student, that keep parents in the loop without a teacher writing a word. Trivia tournaments run on the same engine. All of it is compute, and all of it now has $100,000 of headroom behind it.
So what changes for schools? Not the price. Standard stays at ₦400,000 per term, and the whole pricing page stays as it is. What changes is on our side: we can be more generous with regenerating questions a teacher doesn't love, run deeper checks instead of rationing them, and test new features against real workloads instead of small samples.
Getting into Microsoft for Startups is competitive, and we don't take it lightly that a Nigerian assessment platform made the cut. We'd rather show than tell, though. If you want to see the ten-minute paper for yourself, get in touch.