Google Australia has announced the inaugural cohort of eight AI-focussed Aussie startups who will join a 10-week accelerator program offering mentorship from Google AI experts, technical support, networking and workshops.
Eight finalists will join the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First program, an equity-free, hybrid accelerator program tailored for Seed and Series A Aussie startups building AI and ML-driven platforms and products.
The AI First program is part of Google Australia’s $1 billion Digital Future Initiative and is designed to help Aussie startups that are building and discovering AI and ML solutions grow rapidly and responsibly. It expands on Google’s commitment to foster local AI innovation through initiatives such as the recent AI Sprint and Google Certificates.
“Australia is a trailblazer in AI innovation and has a vibrant startup industry. Under the Digital Future Initiative, we’re excited to be fostering that potential,” said Scott Riddle, Google Australia and New Zealand.
“The AI Accelerator will give these AI-focused startups support, mentorship, and resources to grow rapidly and responsibly. We look forward to working with these incredible Australian businesses to help shape the future of AI innovation in Australia.”
The eight finalists who will join the accelerator are:
· Asseti:
- Overview: Asseti focuses on improving asset management by offering automated condition reporting and predictive maintenance solutions.
- Key Features: Automated reporting, predictive maintenance, streamlining asset management processes.
· BuildShip:
- Overview: BuildShip provides a low-code platform for creating backend APIs, automating complex workflows, and integrating various tools using AI.
- Key Features: Low-code development, workflow automation, AI-driven tool integration.
· FetchPet:
- Overview: FetchPet aims to simplify pet health management through an app that offers insight-backed pet insurance and other health-related features tailored to Australian pets.
- Key Features: Pet health management, insight-backed pet insurance, tailored services for Australian pets.
· GigaBuddy:
- Overview: GigaBuddy is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance online community management by providing intelligent and empathetic tools for community managers.
- Key Features: AI-driven community management, tools for empathy and intelligence, community enhancement.
· LoveHeart:
- Overview: LoveHeart is an intelligent teaching assistant that helps educators gain insights into a child’s development and plan appropriate teaching strategies.
- Key Features: Developmental insights, teaching strategy planning, intelligent assistance for educators.
· Marqo:
- Overview: Marqo offers a platform for training, embedding, and retrieving vector embeddings, facilitating the creation of powerful search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.
- Key Features: Vector embeddings, search and recommendation applications, RAG capabilities.
· Sauce:
- Overview: Sauce provides real-time AI-driven customer insights tailored for product and customer-facing teams, helping them understand and respond to customer needs.
- Key Features: Real-time AI insights, customer understanding, support for product and customer-facing teams.
· Springboards:
- Overview: Springboards is an AI-powered creative agency designed to inspire and accelerate creative minds, providing tools and support for the best creative work.
- Key Features: AI-driven creative support, inspiration for creative minds, acceleration of creative processes.
For more information about how Google’s programs are helping startups globally, see Google’s recent Accelerator Impact Report.
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