Google for Startups

That’s a wrap on the Radical Compute Cohort Demo Day! 🚀 Today marked the conclusion of this year's Radical Compute Cohort, a premier six-month program by Radical Ventures. Google for Startups has been thrilled to serve as the core partner, equipping these exceptional early-stage founders with high-performance Google Cloud compute resources and dedicated mentorship. Building at the frontier of AI requires incredible ambition and technical depth - this cohort had both. Thank you to the Radical Ventures team for a brilliant partnership, and congratulations to the founders. We can’t wait to see where the startup journey takes you.

The transition toward post-keyboard environments, neural interfaces, and digital avatars is happening now. Are you ready? 🌐 Dive into the new "Future of AI" report from Google for Startups to rethink your user experience strategy → https://goo.gle/42ia6C2

This is our biggest step yet toward building a community of AI operators in Canada, with our debut event on May 25th. We are kicking off Tech Week alongside Google for Startups, and our CEO Amit Shah will sit down with Naveen Nigam, Head of Developer Relations, Americas at Google, for a fireside on what it takes to move AI out of the pilot phase and into the enterprise systems that run businesses. We are organizing small-group roundtables with Toronto's operator community pushing on the questions about deploying AI inside enterprises, AI adoption across industries slow to embrace the shift, and what it takes to ship AI that drives revenue in 2026. We will be in Toronto for the full week, May 25 to 29, looking to plant roots and find the builders, operators, and leaders who are thinking about these problems the same way. Spots are limited. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAU3guBt

AI agents are entering their production era, and the Google for Startups AI Agents Challenge is built for startups ready to move from prototype to production-ready systems. 🛠️⚡️ Using Gemini, the upgraded Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Google Cloud, participants will build agents that can connect to tools, reason across workflows, and execute real business tasks at scale. Whether you’re building from scratch or refactoring an existing agent for Google Cloud Marketplace and Gemini Enterprise, the goal is the same: turning AI projects into deployable infrastructure. Every eligible startup receives $500 in credits plus the chance to win a share of a $90,000 prize pool. 💰🏆 Projects are due June 5. Apply here: https://goo.gle/4cpi2pB

AI-native startups are scaling with leaner teams and faster execution. See how fellow founders are adapting. 👉 Join Arthur Soroken for live interviews with founders from the AI Futures Fund: Matthew Rogers, cofounder and CEO of Mill, Madhav Jha, cofounder and CTO of Emergent, and Bianca Rangecroft, founder and CEO of Whering. From infrastructure to sustainability to consumer AI, these conversations unpack how teams are navigating product development, growth, and what’s next for AI-native startups. 📍 May 20, 1–5 PM PT 🎥 Tune in to the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/evmF7B79 Full playlist: https://lnkd.in/edMuSeqh

Yesterday at #GoogleIO, we announced: ✨Gemini 3.5 Flash — our strongest agentic model yet  ⚙️ New Workspace capabilities — personal agents, new generative AI tools, and more  📈 Managed Agents API — helping you instantly spin up custom agents Build on, startups. Read more: https://goo.gle/3RlA2ue

The conversations around AI are moving fast. 🗣⚡️ At the #GoogleIO Startup lunch break, founders, investors, and operators came together to discuss how the latest Gemini models and agentic tools are changing the way teams build, create, and operate. A few themes that stood out: 🎥 Gemini Omni is pushing multimodal creation forward by blending text, audio, image, and video inputs into a more intuitive approach to video generation and editing using natural language ⚡️ Google Workspace support in AI Studio and Antigravity 2.0 make it easier to build connected, agentic workflows across the tools teams already use every day 🧠 Gemini Spark introduces a more operational AI agent experience with the ability to take action across Workspace, CRMs, ERPs, and enterprise data systems under user direction Founders: where are you seeing AI create the biggest operational advantage right now?

What an electric start to #GoogleIO ⚡️ The Google Accelerator team was thrilled to kick off Day 0 of I/O with our Accelerator Alumni Summit - convening 100+ founders from 25 countries! Today's incredible energy and the perfect way to set the stage for the week ahead. 💪 #AcceleratedWithGoogle Our I/O Day 0 Alumni Summit keynotes featured nonstop insights from our guests, Thomas Dohmke and Saanya Ojha - including some incredible learnings for founders building in an AI-first world: 👉 "Your competitive advantage today: your team. your messaging. your passion." "Build a business in-which the more users that use your product, the better it gets." "In today's world, nothing compares to the freedom of being a founder building something you love."

If you're a founder with a live product, this program is for you!