Announcing the next cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First in India
The global AI narrative has moved from promise to tangible, rapid impact. This transition is most pronounced in India, now the world's second-largest GenAI startup hub following a remarkable 3.7X growth in its Generative AI landscape. Critically, it is enabling lean AI companies to achieve substantial revenue and serving as a powerful engine for exponential growth in established startups. Entri, a leading learning platform and our accelerator alumni, leveraged Gemini and increased user retention by 20% percent - watch their startup story.
Today, however, the most compelling application of this speed is the potential to tackle systemic, complex challenges across society and industry. To support this vital trajectory, we are excited to announce the 20 AI startups joining the latest cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First, selected from over 1600 applications.
Google’s support for these startups designed to move founders beyond foundational hurdles and into scaled, impactful deployment. This support encompasses not only Google Cloud infrastructure and access to cutting-edge Gemini models but also deep technical mentorship and go-to-market strategies.
The new cohort’s strategic focus directly aligns with the IndiaAI Mission's startup pillar, prioritizing solutions leveraging Agentic AI (45%) and Multimodal AI (30%), with the remaining 25% dedicated to foundational models and Responsible AI.
The founders in this cohort are applying advanced AI not to incremental improvements, but to structural problems across sectors like healthcare, climate, and finance. They are building the next generation of solutions that promise to unlock new efficiencies and address long-standing societal bottlenecks.
- Adya AI (Enterprise Tech): A full-stack agentic AI platform where AI creates AI, enabling enterprises to instantly build, orchestrate, and scale secure, composable, domain-agnostic solutions.
- Aignosis (Healthcare): AI-driven healthtech startup offering a webcam-based Autism screening tool, enabling early, affordable and massively-scalable detection of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- AiSteth (Healthcare): AI-powered smart stethoscope for early detection of cardio-respiratory disorders, aiming to cut premature deaths due to NCDs by 30%. They are also developing a biotech foundational model.
- Apptile (DevTool): An agentic developer platform that uses AI to rapidly design, build, and deploy native mobile applications.
- Dview (FinTech): AI-native data platform designed for horizontal and vertical scaling, allowing organizations to unify diverse data and generate concurrent insights that drive proactive business decisions.
- Knit (DevTool): Integration layer enabling AI agents to seamlessly connect with MCPs, APIs, and enterprise data to power RAG pipelines and automate workflows across leading business tools.
- Mili AI (FinTech): Powers modern wealth firms by eliminating back-office grunt work with intelligent assistance.
- Mysa (FinTech): Builds AI powered operating systems for how businesses pay - uniting bills, approvals, reimbursements, bank-payments and accounting into one intelligent platform.
- MyWonder (Education): A conversational learn-while-you-play physical companion that sparks curiosity, makes play independent & safe, with age appropriate content.
- ORBO AI (Fashion): Builds a vertical AI operating system for beauty, enhancing the digital customer journey with features like virtual try-ons, skin analysis, and personalized product recommendations.
- Phot.AI (Marketing Tech): A creative automation platform that automates and personalizes creatives for cataloging and marketing workflows for e-commerce sellers and D2C brands.
- Protecto (Cybersecurity): AI security platform that safeguards enterprise data in GenAI by securing AI context, eliminating the patchwork of DLPs, prompt filters, and compliance tools.
- Pulse (Enterprise Tech): AI-native Feedback Intelligence platform that helps digital-native companies turn fragmented customer feedback into revenue-driving product, customer experience, and business decisions.
- Resilience AI (ClimateTech): Empowers enterprises and governments with AI-driven risk intelligence, delivering fast, accurate insights to strengthen disaster preparedness and build resilience.
- Segmind (DevTool): They automate media generation for developers at creative agencies and studios using the latest AI models.
- Sortment (Marketing Tech): Builds AI agents for marketing, creating an AI-native platform that helps businesses run smarter, automated, and personalized marketing at scale.
- Sparky AI (Education): Voice-first AI friend that helps users build spoken English fluency and confidence through interactive, judgment-free conversation practice.
- Superjoin (Productivity): An AI assistant for spreadsheets with a mission to make 1 billion spreadsheet users 10x more productive.
- Vaani AI (Research): Provides a complete voice AI infrastructure, working on its own foundational model, that lets any business integrate natural, human-like voice conversations into their products.
- VideoSDK (Communication Tech): Builds realtime AI agents that can listen, speak, see and even take action.
This week, the program commenced with an intensive, in-person bootcamp at the Google Bengaluru office. Over the next three months, our teams will collaborate closely with these companies, providing the technical and business support necessary to tackle their key scaling challenges.
We extend a warm welcome to this promising new cohort, recognizing them not just as beneficiaries of our program, but as critical partners in building a future where advanced AI provides a decisive advantage in solving the world’s most difficult problems.
For further information on Google for Startups Accelerator programs, and to express your interest in future cohorts, please visit the program page here.
