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AI startup program | Google Cloud Explore the Future of AI: Perspectives on generative media for startups report. Our AI program is built to accelerate AI Startups Receive up to $350,000 in Cloud credits, resources to accelerate your startup journey, dedicated support and enablement, and the best of Google's open AI ecosystem.
Apply now for the AI program A program designed for Scale tier AI startups For VC-funded startups ready to Grow and Scale Startups that use or plan to use Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or Gemini to deploy AI services as a foundation of their primary product or solution offering Designed for startups that raised Pre-Seed/Seed rounds within the last five years, and Series A rounds within the last 12 months Founded within the last five years Not yet received more than $5,000 in Google Cloud credits Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud.
Receive up to $350,000 Google Cloud Credits to support your development costs over 2 years Up to $200,000 USD in Google Cloud (up to $350,000 USD for AI startups)[4]: Year 1: 100% up to $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] For AI-first startups: 100% up to $250,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] Program credits cover Google's state-of-the-art models like Gemini and Gemma.
[5] Google Cloud expert availability and advice for your projects and challenges Access exclusive webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates Obtain insight into Google Cloud’s latest AI advances and product roadmap Access to Google's own AI Build with our most capable models from Google DeepMind. Program credits cover Google's state-of-the-art models like Gemini and Gemma.
Note: Third-party models are billed directly and are not covered by the program credits.
For VC-funded startups ready to Grow and Scale Startups that use or plan to use Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or Gemini to deploy AI services as a foundation of their primary product or solution offering Designed for startups that raised Pre-Seed/Seed rounds within the last five years, and Series A rounds within the last 12 months Founded within the last five years Not yet received more than $5,000 in Google Cloud credits Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud.
Receive up to $350,000 Google Cloud Credits to support your development costs over 2 years Up to $200,000 USD in Google Cloud (up to $350,000 USD for AI startups)[4]: Year 1: 100% up to $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] For AI-first startups: 100% up to $250,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] Program credits cover Google's state-of-the-art models like Gemini and Gemma.
[5] Google Cloud expert availability and advice for your projects and challenges Access exclusive webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates Obtain insight into Google Cloud’s latest AI advances and product roadmap Access to Google's own AI Build with our most capable models from Google DeepMind. Program credits cover Google's state-of-the-art models like Gemini and Gemma.
Note: Third-party models are billed directly and are not covered by the program credits. Take the next step in your AI journey Get the technology, community, and resources you need to build and grow your AI startup faster and easier. Additional resources to build with Google AI Our most powerful agentic and vibe-coding model yet is now available to every developer and enterprise team.
Transform your businesses for the agentic future. State -of-the-art reasoning and multimodality Powerful agentic coding and front-end creation Advanced tool use and planning As generative media advances, so too do the opportunities for startups. Leaders are seizing the moment—building intelligent, context-aware workflows that embed generative media to deliver high-quality content at scale.
You can, too. This technical guide provides a blueprint for building creative and multimodal applications for everything from ad localization platforms to video editing apps. The ‘Future of AI: Perspectives on generative media for startups’ report features leading voices in AI including top founders, investors and Googlers.
Hear their perspectives on the most critical generative AI innovations, media trends, opportunities, and challenges that startup leaders should consider when building and scaling in 2026. Cradle uses generative AI and wet-lab technologies to help find, understand, and engineer proteins and enzymes — significantly speeding up the research and development.
We use Google Cloud to enable our machine learning team to quickly learn from massive scale DNA-sequence and laboratory data as well as quickly train and fine-tune new models using state-of-the-art Nvidia and TPU accelerators. Stef van Grieken, Co-founder and CEO, Cradle 1. Credits can be applied toward Google Cloud Services and Select Google Cloud offerings , subject to the Google for Startups Cloud Program-Startup Terms .
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We are unable to accept companies that have IPO’d or been acquired, educational institutions, government entities, nonprofits, personal blogs or content, dev shops, consultancies, or agencies, cryptocurrency mining company, or a company distributing tokens contrary to regulatory guidance in your jurisdiction.
*Startup Equity Funding includes equity investments that support startup growth from institutional investors and venture capital firms. Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) agreements are eligible. To support the Web3 community, we accept verifiable token raises and blockchain foundation grants.
Funding through private equity, government innovation grants, prize funding, crowdfunding, angel, and friends and family funding will not qualify a startup for scale but will be evaluated for other program tiers. Google for Startups, in partnership with DeepMind and Google Cloud, presents the Gemini Startup Forum.
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As a generation of electricians, welders, and machinists retires with too few replacements, funders have poured more than a half-billion dollars into skilled-trades training — Lowe's $250M, BlackRock $100M, Google $50M, and more. It is one of the clearest philanthropic theses in 2026. Here is the funder landscape, why 'AI-proof' framing is driving it, and how a workforce nonprofit should position to win these grants.
Read articleThe California Civic Media Program is a $20 million public-private fund — $10 million from the state, $10 million matched by Google — that pays local newsrooms on a per-journalist formula: $20,000 for each of the first five FTE reporters, $10,000 for reporters six through twenty, capped at $250,000 per organization. Applications open July 6 and close August 21, 2026. Here is exactly how the formula works, which newsrooms qualify (and which are excluded), and how to position a small newsroom to win.
Read articleGoogle.org is offering up to $3 million per organization across two AI challenges — one for government innovation, one for scientific breakthroughs. Eligibility, strategy, and what wins.
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