“The Google for Startups Accelerator program gave us valuable resources and guidance on what we can do, how we can do it, and what not to do. The mentorship and learning from people who developed the technology, use the technology, and work with it every day was invaluable for us. The mentors also helped us refine our pitch when communicating our solution on different platforms. That was very useful to understand how to speak to different customers and investors.”

- Tim Sperry, Founder of Carbon Limit

“Having been in the circular economy space, and being a software business already using a plethora of Google products, and having a Google Chrome extension - getting plugged into the Google world gave us great insights about very niche questions that are very hard to find online. Having direct access to people at Google was really key for our development and sophisticated use of Google tools. And being a part of a cohort of other Circular Economy businesses was phenomenal for building connections in the same space.”

- Sarah Pinner, Co-founder and CEO of Beni

“The Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program is one of the most innovative accelerator programs in the Indian landscape. Not many accelerators have a women founders cohort, so I was very interested when I heard about it. We were already using AI algorithms, but having 1:1 discussions with Google’s technical experts helped us immensely improve, think about different users’ reactions, and better utilize data. The mentors really helped us in redesigning the product UI/UX in optimizing the user journey itself and making it seamless.”

- Ariba Khan, Founder and CEO of JumpingMinds

“The mentors from the Accelerator program asked me probing questions, allowing me to realize solutions through my own discovery and helping ensure that I was thinking in the right direction. Being in a cohort of 20 other women founders was an enriching experience and made me feel like I was not alone. We’ve also automated a lot of our tasks through the Google ecosystem and network, and we’re also looking to reach out soon and work with Google developers to build an AI system on Google Cloud.”

- Chaitsi Ahuja, Founder and CEO of Brown Living

“We use Google Cloud technology to increase efficiency and speed and implement all the AI engines we need. It’s important for us to move quickly and improve our user experience quickly, and high-quality Google tools are of great help. Our mentors understood our business model and services and helped us develop our core engine. We still contact them every week and ask them questions. We’re excited to launch more and hopeful that our services can actually help people who need it.”

- Jeonghyun Yoon, Co-founder and CEO of BlueSignum

“Google enables us to focus on the core of the business. Google takes care of infrastructure, so we and our farmers can focus on the problems we want to solve. We really scrutinized and focused on using data as a company. The data uncovered the truth behind the traction we have, how to have more engagement with farmers, and how to focus on certain crops. With those things, we grew more than three apps in just one month.”

- Yohanes Sugihtononugroho, CEO of CROWDE

“We’re in the e-commerce space, and what we loved most was the out-of-the-box thinking of the mentors. Mentors would say ‘Oh, did you know that Shopify is a Google Cloud customer? We should connect you with that team!’ And that was invaluable for us. Some mentors even tapped their personal networks; for instance, connecting us to other e-commerce startups that had gone through Google for Startups Accelerator, and we didn’t expect that. They went above and beyond.”

- Assel Beglinova, CEO and Co-Founder of Paperstack

“Learning is an important value at OTO. We have a weekly, company-wide learning session, so we embrace learning, big time! We’ve attended accelerators before, but we wanted to attend Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East & North Africa because it was more tech-oriented. Usually accelerators are designed for founders and less so the tech side, for instance hosting, data structure, AI, and machine learning. That’s what got us excited about Google for Startups Accelerators.”

- Mohammad Al-Razaz, CEO of OTO

“There’s a huge opportunity to shift the country’s last mile deliveries to become electric. We are on a mission to convert last mile delivery and mobility to electric. Our long-term partnership with Google means that as we scale, we can use more Google technologies such as Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform as we scale.”

- Akash Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Zypp Electric

“We are helping life science companies design better clinical trials and advance innovation to care for and cure patients. We are also supporting companies impacted by current events to find better supply chain solutions. Our mentors from the Google for Startups Accelerator helped us to refine our objectives and key results (OKRs) and encouraged us to aim for our moonshot.”

- Michelle Wu, Founder and CEO of NyquistData