Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders is designed to bring the best of Google’s expertise, products, people and technology to women-led tech startups up to Series A stage, based in Africa or building Africa-centered solutions with technology.
The program includes content and mentorship tailored to the unique needs of women founders and opportunities to network with our global women founders community.
The Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Program aims to help women startup founders address challenges that are unique to their experience, including fundraising, hiring and building products.
The program structure is the same with access to the best of Google, content and mentorship tailored to the unique needs of women founders, and opportunities to network with our global women founders community.
About Google
The company is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. it was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.
The company’s rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond its core search engine (Google Search).
It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos).
The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser.
It has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset.
Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station) .Google.com is the most visited website in the world
Aim and Benefits of Women Founders Africa Program
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Equity-free support: Three months of equity-free support
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Mentoring: Mentoring from 20+ Google teams
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Training: Training on design, marketing, and leadership
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Strategic support: Support on company and product strategy
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Product credits: Google product credits for your tech stack
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Early access: Early access to new products and tools
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Access to experts: Access to Google’s network of industry experts
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Technical project partnership: Partnership on advanced technology project
Requirements for Google Women Founders Africa Program Qualification
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Women-founded technology startups up to Series A-stage are eligible for the program.
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The Accelerator is sector-agnostic and welcomes startups leveraging machine learning (or plan to in future) from any vertical.
Application Deadline
February 20, 2023
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to Google on docs.google.com to apply
