UK
Growth
Academy
A three-month program designed to support founders and marketing leaders from high-potential startups grow their user base, scale, and go global with Google products, best practices, and connections.
UK
Growth
Academy
About the program
About the program
Google for Startups Growth Academy is an equity-free, three-month program aiming to support founders and marketing leaders from high-potential startups grow their user base, scale, and go global. This edition is focused on helping the most promising startups in the UK accelerate their growth with the best of Google.
The program connects selected founders with mentors from Google and industry experts to help them address their product challenges, and refine customer acquisition, go-to-market and internationalization strategies.
Key benefits
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Equity-free
Three months of equity-free support.
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Custom Mentorship
Receive tailored support from Google mentors and industry experts.
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Google product support and advice
Learn product tips and tricks directly from the Googlers who built them.
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Technical project partnership
Work hand in hand with experts from Google on your biggest tech challenges.
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Go Global
Get key insights and best practices to expand your business to new markets.
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Founder network
Connect and get support from fellow founders as a part of Google for Startups alumni network.
Entry Criteria
Entry Criteria
- B2C or B2SMB business model.
- Between Seed and Series A.
- Scalable product or service with a significant total addressable market and defensible growth model.
- Ready to go global.
- Ready to migrate or using Google Cloud technologies.
- Eager to take their business to the next level and generate positive impact.
Key dates
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June 2024
Applications open
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September 2024
Application deadline
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October 2024
Program kickoff
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March 2025
Graduation
Selected Startups
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Arva AI makes onboarding onto a bank/fintech as a business 100x faster and significantly cheaper. Arva AI's built a highly compliant AI agent that instantly handles all low/medium risk manual KYB work in real-time as a customer is onboarding, cutting reviews to seconds and ops spend by 80%.
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Bigthinx is an award winning AI company building software for online retail and gaming. With products in automated 3D creation and digital twins, Bigthinx has made waves with its cutting-edge technology that combines generative AI, 3D virtualization, and predictive analytics.
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Circle of Style is a marketplace for secondhand apparel and accessories.
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Clay is designed to help tech-enabled businesses launch and fund their own lending programs under their own brand, offering a full lending stack and debt line through a single platform and API. With just a few lines of code, Clay handle everything from origination to servicing within their partners' apps, avoiding any need to redirect users to a third-party.
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Innerworks provides bot detection and user authentication services to make online spaces more trustworthy. Innerworks offer a 98%+ bot detection rate, saving companies time and money by accurately identifying and removing bots from their online communities.
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Lowr help organisations lower their overall carbon emissions by tracking previously difficult to measure fan and employee emissions from travel and consumption and actively reward users for taking action to reduce their personal impact.
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Mettle is a science-backed mental fitness app for men to aid happier, healthier, and more successful lives, for the good of all. From habit-forming protocols to overcoming mental blocks, Mettle unlocks positive behaviors through uniquely personalized experiences, light-touch accountability, and a healthy dose of competition with yourself and others.
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Moody is optimising daily hormone health for women. 90% of women experience health changes associated to hormones, 40% of those are chronic and can impact on performance in life and work. The ML app connects wearable health data with menstrual cycles to forecast hormonal mood and symptom changes.
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Recruitment Smart Technologies is a GenAI B2B Enterprise product company to help large organisations automate their end-to-end talent supply chain and help reduce bias in the hiring process.
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Renewabl is a procurement and sustainability platform that provides traceable, temporal-matched renewable energy solutions. Renewabl is a data-driven company focused on the energy transition, allowing companies to understand their Scope 2 and 3 emissions and CFE score and take action to mitigate those.
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Shuttle is a DevTool company that offers a platform for building, iterating and deploying web applications in the cloud. Shuttle use their own open-source cloud-native framework called infrastructure-from-Code (IfC), developers build applications that can be deployed to the Shuttle platform in an instant (think Vercel for backends).
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Sightline Climate accelerates the deployment of climate tech solutions through industry leading data, analytics, and research. Sightline’s subscription intelligence platform gives investors, corporates, and governments the insights they need to confidently build and finance the new climate economy.
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Spot is a no-code platform that allows businesses and individuals to easily build and manage AI agents to automate tasks and workflows. This enables increased productivity, cost savings, and new opportunities, especially for those without extensive technical expertise.
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Studyhall.AI is an AI-powered reading, writing and exam coach for K-12. Studyhall is solving to develop the worlds greatest personalised learning application for schools and homes that leverages both AI and rich premium book content.
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Watchers provides integrated community-building tools for your platform: text chats, audio streams, engagement and copy widgets, and advanced AI moderation.
The Growth Academy program helped us in many ways. The power of being a part of this startup community, sharing and learning from other founders, is a fantastic experience.
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