Google for Startups Accelerator: India
Backs India-based AI startups with a three-month, equity-free accelerator program.
Startups move through three review stages before joining a cohort: eligibility screening runs alongside the open application window itself, a panel of experts and the program team narrows the eligible pool to forty to sixty startups for an interview and pitch session covering team, problem, solution and scalability, and a selection board then reviews that shortlist to set the final list, who each …
The program targets AI-first startups headquartered in India, at Seed to Series A stage, building core AI products such as agentic, multimodal or reasoning applications, or foundational models with a Google AI use case. Applicants must show customer traction and a scalable, defensible business, and can come from any industry from healthcare to enterprise software.
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