Emerging startups working with Google Cloud to fuel the next wave of innovation

In today's fast-paced startup ecosystem, securing the right resources and support can be the difference between surviving and thriving. Google Cloud wants to continue to invest in and support emerging startups, fostering innovation on a global scale.

Google Cloud is empowering high-potential startups with a comprehensive suite of resources and opportunities, including:

• Mentorship and guidance: Access to a network of seasoned mentors and experts from Google Cloud and the broader tech industry.
• Technical expertise: Hands-on support with Google Cloud’s cutting-edge technologies and platforms.
• Community building: Opportunities to connect and collaborate with fellow entrepreneurs from around the world.
• Exposure and visibility: Showcasing promising startups to potential investors, partners, and customers.
• Funding: Providing additional funding options to help startups accelerate their goals.

This is not just about providing resources — it's about helping level the playing field and creating a more inclusive startup landscape. Moreover, Google Cloud recognizes that the challenges faced by startups vary depending on their background and circumstances and tailors support to the specific needs of each founder.

Here are just a few examples of emerging startups that are working with Google Cloud to build and grow successfully, expanding into new markets, and making a real difference in their communities: 

1. BetterYou is an AI-powered wellness platform designed to help individuals and businesses build healthier habits and improve their overall well-being. Built using Google Cloud's suite of data and AI, including Firebase and BigQuery, BetterYou enables members to find more time in the day for their health by providing AI-generated insights into their daily activities and goals.

2. Collimator.ai is revolutionizing the development of complex hardware systems with a cutting-edge SaaS platform that combines physics-based modeling with machine learning. Collimator partners with Google's JAX team — a group dedicated to building high-performance numerical computing and machine learning tools — to help streamline robotic system design, simulation, and optimization by accelerating development and deployment with Gemini and TPU infrastructure.

3. Homebuyer.com leverages Google Cloud AI to power its online self-service mortgage platform, reducing mortgage costs and helping home buyers achieve the American dream of homeownership. This industry-changing company is expanding homeownership opportunities into previously underserved markets and for everyone, making buying a home more affordable and accessible.

4. Madaket Health streamlines provider data administrative processes for healthcare organizations. By delivering 90% provider directory accuracy and automating tasks like provider data management and payer enrollment, Madaket improves efficiency, reduces errors, and allows healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. In partnership with Google Cloud, Madaket will further augment these processes using generative AI and machine learning technologies.

5. Modyfi is a collaborative, AI-powered design platform that empowers creatives by simplifying and accelerating the design process. The platform is revolutionizing the industry with an intuitive, browser-based interface for real-time collaboration and its design-forward Image Guided Generation feature. Modyfi leverages Google Cloud to train LoRAs that allow designers to realize a diverse range of visual aesthetics and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) that power natural language interactions in its application. 

6. Replika Software is a social selling affiliate solution enabling brands to achieve greater ecommerce success. By leveraging the power of the people who know their brand best as a powerful social selling force, Replika helps companies provide personalized, curated shopping experiences for customers augmented with generative AI capabilities in partnership with Google Cloud.

7. Rise is the first on-chain payroll and compliance platform for organizations to onboard, hire, and pay global workforces. The hybrid solution makes it easy for companies to pay using crypto or fiat while providing the workforce with maximum flexibility on the currency they receive. Powered by Google Cloud and blockchain, Rise offers global financial reach with a maximum of security, compliance, and efficiency. 

8. Space Interactions is manufacturing space domain intelligence through AI-enabled mass data synthesis to enhance safety and foster collaboration in the rapidly expanding space industry. Leveraging digital twin technology and Google Cloud AI, Space Interactions is developing secure, interactive platforms to facilitate more accurate, real-time space traffic management, ensuring the success of space endeavors.

9. SupplyHive provides a Supplier Performance Management (SPM) solution that enables corporations to efficiently review, rate and manage suppliers at scale, using a unique combination of quantitative metrics and 360-degree qualitative assessments. Powered by Google Cloud’s compute, databases, security and generative AI capabilities, the SupplyHive platform helps companies to quickly understand supplier strengths and opportunities, generate collaborative action plans, and drive performance improvements.

10. Verasana is a mobile-first performance management platform designed to empower frontline workers through video role-playing, a user-friendly learning experience platform (LXP), and a mobile knowledge base. By combining these features, Verasana helps companies effectively train employees, enhance team communication, and provide quick access to essential job-related information. Leveraging Google Cloud's compute and database tools, combined with Flutter’s multi-platform SDK, Verasana can meet the evolving technological needs of its customers.

11. WeaveIQ offers an all-in-one system for cannabis sales, helping dispensaries provide great shopping experiences — both in-store and online — while streamlining inventory management and state regulatory compliance. Since their founding in 2014, WeaveIQ has used Google Cloud to power the performant, reliable software that dispensaries need. More recently, the team has leveraged advances in Vertex AI to enhance their already strong personal support, online search and recommendation systems, and procurement forecasting.

12. When is elevating the employee offboarding experience by leveraging Google Cloud AI through its AI-powered tool, Jamie. By providing expert health insurance guidance and alternative coverage options to COBRA, When simplifies the shopping experience for employees while reducing health insurance costs for employers.

Looking to the future

If your emerging startup is interested in working with Google Cloud , please reach out to google-cloud-emerging-startup@google.com with your company name, a point of contact from your organization, an overview of your company’s goals and vision, and how you’d like to work with Google Cloud to build faster and easier.