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Google for Startups

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Google for Startups is Google's start-up support programme, launched in 2011 as Google for Entrepreneurs. It is not a managed venture fund. It offers equity-free accelerators, including the AI First accelerator, a 10-week programme for Seed to Series A AI start-ups in Europe and Israel run with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind. It also runs founder academies, Startup School: Gen AI, the Gemini Kit and Gemini API Sprints, up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits, and Founders Funds that give non-dilutive cash awards to under-represented founders. In Spain it ran Google for Startups Campus Madrid from 2015 until the site closed at the end of 2025, and its Spanish programmes are now delivered through Google's global digital programmes. More than 700 start-ups took part in its Spanish programmes, including RatedPower and Idoven; together they have raised over €2.6B and created more than 8,700 jobs.

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