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. 

Google Cloud is making it easy to harness the power of generative AI

Two program tiers designed for AI startups

Start tier

For pre-seed AI-first startups without funding.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

Gain early access to emerging Cloud AI technologies, including generative AI products.

What you’ll need before you apply

billing ID

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.

Google Workspace

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

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 

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 

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 

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
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 typical equity investment vehicles that support startup growth from accredited angel investors, Accelerator, Incubators, and Venture Capital firms. Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) Agreements and convertible notes are accepted. To support the Web3 community, we will also be accepting verifiable token raises and blockchain foundation grants. Funding via Private Equity, government innovation grants, prize funding, crowdfunding, friends & family funding will not qualify a startup for Scale but will be evaluated for enrollment in Start.

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