The Startup Guide: Build faster, stretch your runway, and scale with confidence

The Startup Guide: How Google Cloud helps you move faster is our new guide designed to help founders, CTOs, and lean engineering teams bridge the gap from a promising AI pilot to a production-ready, commercial business.

Grounded in Dealroom.co research across more than 1,900 AI startups in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), the guide reveals why startups building on Google Cloud systematically outpace the market — achieving 63% average revenue growth, 30% larger Series B rounds, and 16% faster funding velocity.

Featuring real-world architectural patterns from high-growth builders like Giles AI and Thinknum, this guide gives you a clear roadmap to scale without burning precious runway in "systems integrator" mode:

1. Architect on an open, vertically integrated AI stack, combining Google DeepMind frontier models with over 200 curated partner and open-weight models in Model Garden
2. Optimise inference costs and performance with custom silicon alongside the latest NVIDIA GPUs
3. Ground and secure multi-agent systems using AI-native data services, open frameworks and runtime protection.
4. Accelerate enterprise go-to-market via Google Cloud Marketplace and the Agent Gallery in Gemini platform
5. Unlock up to $350,000 in Google for Startups Cloud Program credits over two years, alongside dedicated customer engineering and support through our ISV Startup Springboard program.

You don’t need a massive infrastructure team to build enterprise-ready AI; just an open stack that handles the heavy lifting so you can stay 100% focused on your competitive moat.

Download the guide to start scaling faster today.