Build a strong foundation.

Your startup may be a fit for our Start tier — equipping pre-funded startups with $2,000 in Cloud credits, exclusive resources and support to help you ideate, build your MVP, and gain traction.

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Startups will be matched with the tier and benefits that best suit their stage. Startups eligible for Start tier must:

  • Be a technology startup that has not yet received funding from an institutional investor
  • Have been founded within the last five years
  • Have not received Google Cloud credits beyond free trial

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Web3 Program access for qualified startups

Web3 Program access for qualified startups

Vertex AI Agent Builder

Vertex AI Agent Builder

View the latest AI Agent Builder features to help you close the gap from prototype to a production-ready agent.

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Startup Technical Guide

Start building with Google Cloud's new Startup technical guide: AI agents

Learn core Agentic concepts like RAG and multimodality, leverage Vertex AI, Gemini, ADK, and get step-by-step help building agentic workflows for production.

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Credits can be applied toward Google Cloud Services and Select Google Cloud offerings.

Company domain must not be subscribed to a paid Google Workspace plan, or subscribed from within 90 days of applying to the Google for Startups Cloud Program, to the day the benefit is requested. This benefit cannot be applied towards annual Google Workspace Business Plus plans.

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 companies, or a company distributing tokens contrary to regulatory guidance in its jurisdiction.

*Qualifying investment types include equity investment vehicles 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 through private equity, government innovation grants, prize funding, crowdfunding, angel, and friends and family funding will not qualify a startup for scale but will be evaluated for other program tiers.

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