Discover the driving force behind India's female-led startups. Dive into the stories of the first-ever Google for Startups Accelerator India Women Founders class.
This blog was written by Paul Ravindranath and was originally posted on Google in October 2022.
In June, we announced applications for the inaugural cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator - India Women Founders. Today, we are pleased to announce the first class of 20 women founded / co-founded startups, selected from close to 400 applications.
The program, designed specifically for women-founded startups, will place special emphasis on subjects like access to networks, access to capital, hiring challenges, mentorship and many others which, for a variety of social reasons and low representation, prove challenging for female founders. In addition to these, the curriculum will include workshops and support around AI/ML, Cloud, UX, Android, Web, Product Strategy and Growth, as well as provide access to a global community of women founders.
This program is part of a larger effort by Google towards improving the representation of women across different sections of India’s digitally-trained workforce - be it entrepreneurship, professionals looking to upskill or young graduates seeking a head start on their career - with the ultimate objective of making technology universally relevant and helpful.
Here’s a quick look at the first batch of the program and the problem areas they’re focussed on :
- Aspire for Her: Adding one million women to the workforce by 2025 by using the power of communities and networks.
- Brown Living: Making planet-positive living possible through its curated platform for all things sustainable & plastic free.
- CoLLearn Education: Helping people make full time careers in the field of their passion through our celebrity led live courses and mentorship programs in Sports and Finance.
- Commudle: A community platform to help businesses build & scale their developer programs. With us you can 10x your DevRel efficiency & 100x your community engagements.
- Dubverse : Video Dubbing powered by AI, in 30+ languages at lightning fast speed.
- Elda Health : A full-stack women's healthcare platform, that offers research-backed, scientifically and mindfully curated wellness solutions for women, starting with a focus on menopause.
- Fitbots: Helping CEOs connect and align teams with OKRs. We are an OKRs product with on demand OKR coaching.
- FreeStand : B2B Marketplace for FMCG Product Sampling.
- Jumping Minds: An anonymous, smart, & interactive community to talk, listen, & get clarity to lower your stress & feel better
- LXME: India's 1st Neobank for women, powering women to take charge of financial goals.
- MeMeraki: The first D2C ‘Culture-tech’ platform enabling traditional rural artisans from the remotest corners of India to be digital creators for the first time in the creator economy with Content enabling Commerce.
- Mishry: Building a world-class review-focussed ecosystem with a mission to remove product misinformation through authentic reviews and customer feedback.
- OPOD Audio : Vernacular audio app that provides contextual information on trending news and current affairs in just 30 secs.
- PickMyWork: India's largest digital distribution network that helps internet companies acquire customers through a pay-per-acquisition model.
- Rang De: A pioneering peer-to-peer lending platform that is revolutionizing credit access by connecting individual social investors to unbanked communities across India.
- Savage: Offering doctor-designed, complete care programs for PCOS, Hormonal Imbalance, Thyroid, Menopause, Weight & Gut Health.
- Sprint Studio: Immersive always-on, conversational research platform where brand custodians and researchers connect with consumers through interactive communities, live video connects and chat style surveys.
- The Bridge: India’s only sports media house fully focused on Indian sports. Deep coverage of Indian sports which goes beyond mainstream cricket.
- TrackNow: Connecting location services to solve problems in education, staff, logistics & supply chain
- Tradyl: A digital platform for online businesses across the world to source in small quantities from India.
A very warm welcome to Google for Startups Accelerator - India Women Founders!
