Google for Startups
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States
Overview
Google for Startups is an initiative of Google that aims to support startups around the world. The program provides startups with access to Google's products, connections, and best practices, through a global network of partners and six Google for Startups Campuses. Its mission is to help determined startups succeed and create a better future. Over fifty best-in-class startup organizations partner with Google for Startups to grow entrepreneurial ecosystems and support startups in over 135 countries. The program offers its partners financial support, exclusive programming, and access to Google and its global partner network. These partners include local tech hubs in cities from Accra to Zurich, as well as accelerators and diversity-focused groups. Google for Startups Campuses is a physical space where startup founders and teams can access mentorship, education, and training from Google and their local startup community. At Campuses, startups get free access to workspace, events, and a diverse community of like-minded entrepreneurs. Currently, Google runs six Campuses located in London, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Madrid, São Paulo, and Warsaw.
- Total investments
- 14
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Communities
- Education
- Internet
- Social Entrepreneurship
Investment portfolio
- Clearly.help
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Clearly.help provides therapeutic solutions that combine artificial intelligence with human intervention through a network of licensed psychologists. The company reports delivering over 20,000 therapy sessions per month and generating monthly revenues in excess of €500,000. Its network includes more than 1,000 active psychologists, roughly 20% of whom are based in Spain, and it plans to recruit many more in the near term. Clearly has chosen Spain as one of its initial priority markets due to rapid adoption and growing interest in mental health. CEO and cofounder Dmytro Marakhovskyi emphasizes making personalized therapy accessible regardless of users' residence or economic situation. The company positions itself to serve both individual and corporate customers, supported by investors such as Purple Ventures and Pragmatech Ventures.
- Ridelink
Participated · Seed · Nov 2025
Ridelink has built a two-sided digital marketplace that links more than 6,000 businesses to a network of over 25,000 transporters, serving enterprise clients such as PepsiCo. The company’s Adrian AI engine analyzes shipment data to match shippers with optimal carriers, predict efficient routes, and dynamically price jobs, resulting in 30 % faster deliveries, 20 % cost reductions, and a 95 % on-time delivery rate. Leveraging the proprietary logistics data it captures, Ridelink launched Boo$T, an embedded trade-finance product that extends working-capital lines to businesses otherwise unable to secure bank credit; 80 % of users now access this financing. The firm therefore generates two revenue streams—transaction fees from freight bookings and interest or fees from financing. Having proven the model in its first three years, management plans to scale the AI-driven logistics infrastructure and expand embedded finance to more geographies and customer segments. No revenue figures were disclosed, but the company positions its growing data advantage as a moat for both logistics efficiency and credit underwriting.
- Uspacy
Participated · Seed · Aug 2025
Founded in 2022 by Dmytro Suslov, Kyrylo Melnychuk, Spartak Polishchuk and Volodymyr Pimakhov, Uspacy offers a unified platform that combines CRM, task and project management, corporate chat, business-process automation and integrations with marketplaces, CMS, delivery and payment services. The product supports a mobile app and a social news feed and is used by both private companies and government organizations. Uspacy has shifted its roadmap toward an Agentic AI strategy, developing over 60 AI tools that will analyze data, suggest next steps and help users make decisions. The company reports significant traction: MRR rose nearly 50% and average monthly revenue more than doubled since its pre-seed close. Uspacy previously raised a €420k pre-seed round with Startup Wise Guys and Ukrainian angels and is now pursuing a €300k bridge-to-seed to fund product expansion and marketing. Planned go-to-market priorities include scaling in Ukraine and testing expansion into Poland, Brazil and English-speaking European markets.
- assisterr
Participated · Equity · May 2025
Assisterr provides a Solana-native, no-code platform for creating, deploying, and monetising specialised AI agents, focusing on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than large general-purpose LLMs. The company argues SLMs are cheaper to run, easier to customise, and better suited for task-specific applications across DeFi, NFTs, and other Web3 use cases. Assisterr is building a decentralised AI (DeAI) economy around an upcoming $ASRR token to reward contributions such as model building, data validation, and successful agent deployments. The platform reports 4.7 million users in under nine months and more than 24,000 live AI agents deployed by its community. Early monetisation tests generated $160,000 in revenue within the first weeks, and several tokenised agents have reached a combined fully diluted valuation of over €70.4 million. The company positions itself as enabling creator-owned AI, shifting control away from centralised APIs and big-tech pricing models toward a Web3 creator economy. Assisterr is a Cambridge, UK-based AI infrastructure startup building a network of community-owned small language models (SLMs). Led by CEO and co-founder Nick Havryliak, the company provides an end-to-end infrastructure and a data provenance protocol for launching and maintaining community-owned SLMs. Since launch it has attracted about 150,000 registered users and has launched more than 60 SLMs curated for Web3 protocols such as Solana, Optimism, 0g.ai, and NEAR. The company plans to use the £1.3M Pre-Seed to accelerate protocol development, form strategic partnerships, and launch an incentive program to grow its model-builder and data-contributor ecosystem. Assisterr was selected for Google’s AI Startups program, securing $350k to support GPU, CPU, and cloud infrastructure needs. Backers include a mix of venture firms and angels, and the funds aim to strengthen Assisterr’s infrastructure and ecosystem growth.
- Pibox
Participated · Equity · Nov 2024
Pibox provides an audio collaboration platform that combines content collaboration, messaging, and file management features in a single place. The system lets teams customize and go deep via metadata fields and management, playlists, custom integrations, and reports. Customers include Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Epidemic Sound, and Bleeding Fingers by Hans Zimmer. Led by CEO Ivan Talaichuk, the company serves use cases across music, broadcasting, and advertising. Pibox raised $1.2M in funding and also received support from Google for Startups. The company intends to use the funds to expand into the US market and to serve more use cases and customers. Pibox is a SaaS platform that centralizes team collaboration with media files and structured workflows. The application allows users to leave comments, draw on video, select moments with millisecond accuracy, and includes chat and fixed storage structures. It aims to replace multiple tools used by creative teams, customers, and contractors such as mail, messenger, file hosting services, and task managers. Pibox's clients include Universal, Epidemic Sound, Sony, Red Bull, the National Gallery of Art, and Michigan Technological University. Founded in 2017 in Ukraine by brothers Ivan and Pavel Talaychuk, the company recently closed a $400,000 pre-seed raise and joined the Techstars Toronto cohort. With the new funding Pibox plans to expand its team, develop go-to-market across creative verticals, and continue building product capabilities and brand positioning for video and podcast productions, branding agencies, and media industry specialists. Pibox is a centralized all‑in‑one remote collaboration solution developed for creative collaboration around audio content. Its features include visualized waveforms with commenting and highlighting, mix version history, team chat, cloud storage, project management and rich content collaboration. The product is used daily by heads of production, music producers, managers and sound engineers, and has partnerships with Universal Music and Epidemic Sound. While currently geared toward audio collaboration, Pibox has attracted interest from video content creators. The company was launched in 2018 and maintains teams in Helsinki and Ukraine; the founders are brothers Ivan and Pavlo Talaychuk. Pibox previously participated in the Startup Wise Guys and Accelerace Soundtech acceleration programs and has recently raised new funding.