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Google for Startups Founders Funds program has concluded — no longer accepting applications
Historical funding: Undisclosed
Prior eligibility: Startups and small businesses with novel AI technology with strong commercial potential.
Google Founders Funds is sponsored by Google. Google provides various initiatives and funding opportunities that can support innovation, including AI-driven ideas. This could include grants and other resources for startups with novel AI technology.
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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