“Partnership may not align with the current needs of our users.” I will not promote”

Today I got a response from the partnership team at a major software company for my industry after being referred by the president of the company, and head of global events. No demo, just a paragraph response. The hard part is that I am a user of their software and listed hundreds of other users of their software that I have personally spoken with that love what I have built and were more than happy to distribute via the search layer I created. It’s fee and commission free, and I built it specifically as a user of the companies software to aggregate other users of the same software onto a shared site and it is completely free to use for both consumer and business side. Even more frustrating is that a competing company has already publicly partnered with me and been very welcoming the entire time. I also in partner process with multiple of their other competitors as well. I am trying to think of what their reasoning is. I currently distribute more than 20% of the company’s users listings. The ones that come to mind are: -too new of a company (started initial part in February) -they are internally copying what I’ve built -I have no revenue to share (currently just free search) -they just don’t like me This is the second time I was told to apply. Previously was 4 users 81 listings 6 months ago for the initial, more complex version. They told me to come back when I hit 5-7k listings. I hit that in a week. Then said come back in 6 months. Well it’s been 6 months and now it’s over 5000 users and 116k listings from just their software and now they tell me to come back in a year. They make up more than 50% of the total listings so it sucks to not have that trust layer established. Do they just not like me? Anyone gone through similar?