Come build with the Google Cloud AI community. Apply today to our new AI startup program.
Iterate and innovate faster with our AI startup program
Through the Google for Startups Cloud Program, you can now access new benefits for AI startups that give you technology and resources to build easily. Take advantage of our open AI ecosystem and tap into the best of Google’s infrastructure, AI products, and foundation models.
Two program tiers designed for AI startups
Eligibility requirements
Eligibility requirements
Startups that use AI as their core technology to develop their primary products or solutions
AI startups not yet funded by an institutional investor or foundation
Founded within the last 5 years
Not yet received Google Cloud credits (beyond the free trial)
Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud
Startups that use AI as their core technology to develop their primary products or solutions
Have received equity funding* from seed to series A (if series A, raised within the last 12 months) or common Web3 funding sources
Founded within the last 10 years
Not yet received more than $4,000 in Google Cloud credits
Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud
Take advantage of all Google for Startups Cloud Program benefits and additional AI financial benefits
Take advantage of all Google for Startups Cloud Program benefits and additional AI financial benefits
Up to $2,000 USD in Google Cloud credits, valid for one year [1]
Apply Google Cloud credits to a Customer Care plan for unlimited access to technical support
12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus for new signups [2]
See benefits here
Up to $350,000 USD over 2 years for Google Cloud and Firebase usage covered in:
- Year 1: 100% up to $250,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] (includes standard program credits plus an additional $150,000 USD for the AI startup program)
- Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1]
$12,000 USD in Google Cloud Enhanced Support credits for one year
12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus for new signups [2]
See benefits here
Access AI experts
Access AI experts
Webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates
Webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates
Insight into Google Cloud’s latest AI advances and product roadmap
Get AI training and resources
Get AI training and resources
Free access to advanced hands-on learning labs focused on AI and the latest Google Cloud technology
Access to architectural guidance and best practices to get started and ramp on AI solutions, including technical deep dives and hands-on workshops
Start tier
For pre-seed AI-first startups without funding.
Eligibility requirements
Startups that use AI as their core technology to develop their primary products or solutions
AI startups not yet funded by an institutional investor or foundation
Founded within the last 5 years
Not yet received Google Cloud credits (beyond the free trial)
Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud
Take advantage of all Google for Startups Cloud Program benefits and additional AI financial benefits
Up to $2,000 USD in Google Cloud credits, valid for one year [1]
Apply Google Cloud credits to a Customer Care plan for unlimited access to technical support
12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus for new signups [2]
See benefits here
Access AI experts
Webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates
Get AI training and resources
Scale tier
For seed to series A AI-first startups with equity funding.
Eligibility requirements
Startups that use AI as their core technology to develop their primary products or solutions
Have received equity funding* from seed to series A (if series A, raised within the last 12 months) or common Web3 funding sources
Founded within the last 10 years
Not yet received more than $4,000 in Google Cloud credits
Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud
Take advantage of all Google for Startups Cloud Program benefits and additional AI financial benefits
Up to $350,000 USD over 2 years for Google Cloud and Firebase usage covered in:
- Year 1: 100% up to $250,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] (includes standard program credits plus an additional $150,000 USD for the AI startup program)
- Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1]
$12,000 USD in Google Cloud Enhanced Support credits for one year
12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus for new signups [2]
See benefits here
Access AI experts
Webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates
Insight into Google Cloud’s latest AI advances and product roadmap
Get AI training and resources
Free access to advanced hands-on learning labs focused on AI and the latest Google Cloud technology
Access to architectural guidance and best practices to get started and ramp on AI solutions, including technical deep dives and hands-on workshops
Join the Google Cloud Trusted Tester Program
What you’ll need before you apply
Have your 18-character Google Cloud billing account ID ready (which you received when you signed up for Google Cloud). Need a billing ID? Sign up now to create one.
Ensure the business email in your application matches your startup’s website domain. Need a matching business email account? Create one with Google Workspace.
Why build your AI startup on Google Cloud
Build new experiences and infuse AI into existing apps faster
Build new experiences and infuse AI into existing apps faster
Quickly build with Google Cloud’s advanced generative AI technologies or use our best-in-class speech, vision, translation, and language APIs.
Make smarter decisions across your business
Make smarter decisions across your business
Google Cloud’s AI platform, Vertex AI, gives you the intelligence you need to make smart business decisions and allows you to easily build, deploy, and scale machine learning models faster.
Save money with cost-effective AI infrastructure
Save money with cost-effective AI infrastructure
Increase efficiency and save money with our cost-effective AI infrastructure, which we run our own scaled, diverse ML workloads on and continually optimize for performance, scalability, and cost.
Be a part of Google Cloud's open and innovative AI ecosystem
Be a part of Google Cloud's open and innovative AI ecosystem
Our commitment to open source technologies gives you the flexibility and portability you need—without vendor lock-in—so you have the freedom to choose the solutions and partners that work best for you.
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 & CEO, Cradle
1. Credits can be applied towards Google Cloud Platform Services and Select Google Cloud offerings, subject to the Google for Startups Cloud Program-Startup Terms.
2. Company domain must not have been subscribed to a paid Google Workspace plan from within 31 days of applying to the Google for Startups Cloud Program, to the day the benefit is requested.
Acceptance into this program is at the discretion of Google Cloud. 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 via private equity, government innovation grants, prize funding, crowdfunding, angel, and friends & family funding will not qualify a startup for Scale but will be evaluated for other program tiers.
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