Scale at startup speed on Google Cloud

Your startup may be a fit for our Scale tier—equipping early stage startups with $200,000 in Cloud credits, exclusive resources and support to deploy faster and accelerate revenue.

Get hands-on with Gemini 3 to continue building faster, smarter, and better.

Gemini 3

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

  • Have received startup equity funding* from pre-seed to Series A (if Series A, raised within the last 12 months) by an institutional investor or common Web3 funding sources
  • Have been founded within the last 10 years
  • Have not received more than $5,000 in Google Cloud credits

Take advantage of your benefits

$200,000 in Google Cloud credits for 2 years1

$150,000 in additional credits for AI-first qualified startups2

$12,000 in Enhanced Support credits for one year

$200,000 in Google Cloud credits for 2 years1

$150,000 in additional credits for AI-first qualified startups2

$12,000 in Enhanced Support credits for one year

$600 monthly credit for any Google Maps service

$500 in Google Skills credits for online training courses

$600 monthly credit for any Google Maps service

$500 in Google Skills credits for online training courses

Exclusive Web3 Program access for qualified startups

Dedicated business support and success manager

Additional partner offers and perks from our Google Cloud ecosystem

Exclusive Web3 Program access for qualified startups

Dedicated business support and success manager

Additional partner offers and perks from our Google Cloud ecosystem

Vertex AI Agent Builder

Vertex AI Agent Builder

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

New capabilities

Starup 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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  1. Credits can be applied toward Google Cloud services and select Google Cloud offerings as follows: Year 1: 100% up to $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits; Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits
  2. Use your existing credits on Google Gemini and our Vertex AI open models. Qualifying venture backed startups can tap into an additional $150,000 USD with the AI startup program to support product development using Vertex AI or Gemini, as well as resources to accelerate your startup journey, dedicated support and enablement, and the best of Google's open AI ecosystem.
  3. 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 toward 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 your 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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