A program designed for Scale tier AI startups
Eligibility requirementsFor early stage AI-first startups with equity funding. |
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Google Cloud CreditsReceive up to $350,000 USD over 2 years for Google Cloud usage and additional AI financial benefits. |
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Access AI ExpertsGoogle Cloud expert availability and advice for your projects and challenges. |
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Partner LLM Model Credits for Model GardenVertex AI Model Garden gives you access to the world's best models, providing choice and flexibility. |
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Eligibility requirements
For early stage AI-first startups with equity funding.
Startups that use AI as their core technology to develop their primary products or solutions
Have received equity funding* from Seed to Series A (if Series A, raised within the last 12 months)
Founded within the last 10 years
Not yet received more than $5,000 in Google Cloud credits
Eligibility at the discretion of Google Cloud.
Google Cloud Credits
Receive up to $350,000 USD over 2 years for Google Cloud usage and additional AI financial benefits.
Year 1: 100% up to $250,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1] (includes standard program credits plus an additional $150,000 USD for the AI startup program) Year 2: 20% up to an additional $100,000 USD in Google Cloud credits [1]
Receive $12,000 USD in Google Cloud Enhanced Support credits for one year
Receive 12 months of free Google Workspace Business Plus for new signups [2]
Receive $600 monthly credits on Google Maps Platform for 12 months for new signups [3], in addition to the free monthly usage
Access AI Experts
Google Cloud expert availability and advice for your projects and challenges.
Access exclusive webinars and live Q&As with Google Cloud AI product managers, engineers, and developer advocates
Obtain insight into Google Cloud’s latest AI advances and product roadmap
Partner LLM Model Credits for Model Garden
Vertex AI Model Garden gives you access to the world's best models, providing choice and flexibility.
Scale tier members can use their existing credits on Google Gemini and our Vertex AI open models. In addition, AI Tier startups receive $10,000 USD to be used exclusively on partner LLM models through Model Garden including Anthropic, Mistral, and AI21.
Choose an AI model that fits your needs
Jumpstart your AI development by discovering, customizing, and deploying a wide variety of models from Google and Google partners.
Why build your AI startup on Google Cloud
Cradle uses generative AI and wet-lab technologies to help find, understand, and engineer proteins and enzymes — significantly speeding up the research and development. We use Google Cloud to enable our machine learning team to quickly learn from massive scale DNA-sequence and laboratory data as well as quickly train and fine-tune new models using state-of-the-art Nvidia and TPU accelerators.
Stef van Grieken, Co-founder and CEO, Cradle
1. Credits can be applied toward Google Cloud Services and Select Google Cloud offerings, subject to the Google for Startups Cloud Program-Startup Terms.
2. Company domain must not have been subscribed to a paid Google Workspace plan from within 31 days of applying to the Google for Startups Cloud Program, to the day the benefit is requested.
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 company, or a company distributing tokens contrary to regulatory guidance in your jurisdiction.
*Startup Equity Funding includes equity investments 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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