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Overview

Google for Startups Accelerator runs equity-free cohort programmes worldwide, pairing selected companies with Google engineers, product managers, and specialists for a period of intensive technical support.

The emphasis is engineering rather than fundraising: teams typically arrive with a working product and a specific technical bottleneck — machine learning, infrastructure scaling, or cloud architecture.

Program Structure

Cohort programmes with no equity taken
Assigned Google mentors matched to technical needs
Regional and thematic editions across many countries
Cloud credits and product access
Mixture of remote and in-person sessions

What They Look For

Companies with a product already in market
A specific technical challenge mentors can address
Sectors varying by regional or thematic edition
Teams with engineering capacity to absorb the support
Regional eligibility depending on the edition

Notable Portfolio

Companies they've backed.

Alumni span every region the programme operates in, with editions dedicated to particular themes such as artificial intelligence, climate, and underrepresented founders.

Because the programme takes no equity, it is one of the lower-cost forms of structured support available to a company with real engineering needs.

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