Google for Startups
VC Fund
Mountain View, United States
Google for Startups is an initiative of Google that aims to support startups around the world. The program provides startups with access to Google's products, connections, and best practices, through a global network of partners and six Google for Startups Campuses. Its mission is to help determined startups succeed and create a better future. Over fifty best-in-class startup organizations partner with Google for Startups to grow entrepreneurial ecosystems and support startups in over 135 countries. The program offers its partners financial support, exclusive programming, and access to Google and its global partner network. These partners include local tech hubs in cities from Accra to Zurich, as well as accelerators and diversity-focused groups. Google for Startups Campuses is a physical space where startup founders and teams can access mentorship, education, and training from Google and their local startup community. At Campuses, startups get free access to workspace, events, and a diverse community of like-minded entrepreneurs. Currently, Google runs six Campuses located in London, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Madrid, São Paulo, and Warsaw.
- Total investments:
- 1887
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 92%
- Fund size:
- $7M
- Last fund:
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Industries Google for Startups invests in
Stages Google for Startups invests in
Countries Google for Startups invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 465 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 274 (15%)
- Information Technology 268 (14%)
- Health Care 254 (13%)
- SaaS 192 (10%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 1516 (80%)
- Grant 183 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 58 (3%)
- Seed 42 (2%)
- Funding Round 25 (1%)
Country
- United States 482 (26%)
- Brazil 231 (12%)
- India 115 (6%)
- United Kingdom 111 (6%)
- Spain 80 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Navarro
Marketing, Google for Startups
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Marketing, Google for Startups | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
Amrit Dhir
Head of Campus London
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Head of Campus London | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andre Barrence
Head of Campus
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Head of Campus | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Connor Swenson
Partnerships Manager
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Partnerships Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Francesca Dean
Program Manager
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Program Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruq AI is a platform for building, running, and owning production AI agents. It is built for teams that want durable agents they actually control, rather than a black-box chatbot or a service they can never take with them.Cruq AI, an agent is a versioned graph of prompts, tools, and model calls. Teams design agents visually or in code, run themin production, and keep every run, trace, tool call, and byte of memory. The platform's core thesis is ownership: customers bring their own model provider keys (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others), so they pay providers directly at cost, switch or compare models without re-platforming, and avoid per-credit lock-in to a single vendor.The platform includes the parts that decide whether an agent survives contact with real users: guardrails (PII, regex, keyword, length, and JSON-schema) on both input and output, long-term semantic memory, retrieval-augmented knowledge bases built from uploaded documents, eval suites and scored experiments for comparing models and prompts, and full observability of tokens, cost, and latency per run. Everything is accessible programmatically through a tenant-scoped REST API, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, and OAuth 2.0, so agents and other software can drive the platform directly.Alongside the platform, the cruq.ai team designs and ships production AI systems with enterprises across sectors including business events, manufacturing and supply chain, digital advertising, HR technology, and real estate, spanning conversational agents, retrieval, forecasting, and voice.Cruq AI is best for teams, developers, and enterprises building serious, owned agents. It is not a consumer chatbot. | $75K / Non-equity Assistance / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Cruq AI is a platform for building, running, and owning production AI agents. It is built for teams that want durable agents they actually control, rather than a black-box chatbot or a service they can never take with them.Cruq AI, an agent is a versioned graph of prompts, tools, and model calls. Teams design agents visually or in code, run themin production, and keep every run, trace, tool call, and byte of memory. The platform's core thesis is ownership: customers bring their own model provider keys (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others), so they pay providers directly at cost, switch or compare models without re-platforming, and avoid per-credit lock-in to a single vendor.The platform includes the parts that decide whether an agent survives contact with real users: guardrails (PII, regex, keyword, length, and JSON-schema) on both input and output, long-term semantic memory, retrieval-augmented knowledge bases built from uploaded documents, eval suites and scored experiments for comparing models and prompts, and full observability of tokens, cost, and latency per run. Everything is accessible programmatically through a tenant-scoped REST API, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, and OAuth 2.0, so agents and other software can drive the platform directly.Alongside the platform, the cruq.ai team designs and ships production AI systems with enterprises across sectors including business events, manufacturing and supply chain, digital advertising, HR technology, and real estate, spanning conversational agents, retrieval, forecasting, and voice.Cruq AI is best for teams, developers, and enterprises building serious, owned agents. It is not a consumer chatbot. | Non-equity Assistance / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| OnFinance AI is a generative AI platform purpose-built for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector. Powered by NeoGPT, India’s first BFSI-specific LLM, we deliver explainable, secure, regulation-aligned AI agents that help banks, NBFCs, AMCs, brokerages, insurers, exchanges, and regulators move from manual compliance toproactive governance.Our flagship platform, ComplianceOS, hosts 70+ regulatory AI agents that interpret circulars, assign tasks, track deadlines, and generate audit-ready evidence, compressing work that once took weeks into minutes. InvestigativeOS adds deeper capabilities across KYC, CSCRF (cyber resilience), SEBI PwD accessibility compliance, vendor risk assessment, and market-conduct surveillance (insider trading, front-running, manipulation).Regulatory coverage spans 40+ domains including SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, AMFI, NSE, BSE, and NPCI, with expanding support for global regimes such as the SEC, OCC, Federal Reserve, FINRA, FCA, SAMA, and MAS. We’re trusted by leading institutions including BSE Limited, Kotak Mutual Fund, Nippon India Mutual Fund, Aditya Birla Capital Digital, HDFC Securities, and many more.Founded in 2023 by BITS Pilani alumni and ex-HSBC, Barclays, WorldQuant, and Nutanix professionals, OnFinance AI is backed by Peak XV (fka Sequoia India & SEA) and prominent operators including OpenAI's Head of Applied AI, Groww Founders’ Fund, MarsShot VC (Razorpay Founders’ Fund), Climber Capital, IAN, LV, SSV, Kunal Shah and SNV (SilverNeedle Ventures).Recognitions include Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 (2024), Microsoft “AI First Mover,” and Inc42 Top 30, with certifications ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II.We’re building the future of regulatory intelligence, turning complexity into clarity, speed, and trust. We are actively hiring, please reach out to team@onfinance.in to get a call back. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Proxgy is an everywhere-as-a-service aggregation platform that uses a network of on-site proprietary technology along with human interactions to give you an on-demand, immersive real-time experience through a user-friendly application on your device. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| NodeOps offers AI-enabled infrastructure to Node Operators, speeding Web3 protocol development. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Ayna: Fashion Photography, Reimagined. Capture your apparel – whether on a mannequin, flat lay, or even yourself. Ayna's AI then crafts it into a sleek professional shoot, showcasing a virtual model of your desired ethnicity and size. Experience the Ayna advantage: swift, cost-friendly, and effortlessly chic. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| SuperBryn is a voice AI startup that builds a reliability and observability layer for voice agents, with a focus on regulated and enterprise use cases like healthcare, financial services, and insurance. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Zeron empowers risk owners with actionable insights and precision-driven intelligence to transform cyber risks into measurable business strength. By enabling effective risk quantification and fostering resilience, Zeron bridges cybersecurity challenges with opportunities for growth. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Aikenist is a healthcare technology firm that offers artificial intelligence-based medical imaging solutions for quicker scanning, better detection, and faster turnaround. AIkenist creates products that improve the end-to-end patient experience and maximize the utilization of medical equipment. AIkenist incorporates artificial intelligencecapabilities to produce quicker scanning, superior picture quality, and a better patient experience. Their founding team has strong entrepreneurial, engineering, and academic credentials, as well as experience in top management, product, and engineering positions in AI, biomedical, and cloud organizations.Aikenist was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| See all 1887 investments → | |||
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What does Google for Startups invest in?
Google for Startups invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Grant stage. Most of the 1,887 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Google for Startups?
The team at Google for Startups includes Daniel Navarro (Marketing, Google for Startups), Amrit Dhir (Head of Campus London) and Andre Barrence (Head of Campus), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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