Southeast Asia
Three month equity-free accelerator for Southeast Asia startups offers direct engineering support from teams like DeepMind. Fine-tune your AI models and scale with world-class mentorship and technical expertise from the best in the industry.
Southeast Asia
About the program
About the program
A global series of programs
Each cohort comes together to tackle technical challenges that can help grow their businesses through a mix of remote and in-person, 1-to-1 mentoring, group learning sessions, and technical discussions and development sprints.
Dedicated expert help
Founders outline the top technical challenges for their startup, and are paired with experts from Google and the industry to solve those challenges to scale their technology and business.
Specialist deep dives
Accelerators include deep dives and workshops focused engineering methodology, product design, customer acquisition, and leadership development for founders and tech leads.
Google product benefits
Early access to AI products: Eligible participants receive Early Access Program and Trusted Tester benefits for Google’s AI products.
Cloud credits: Startups interested in utilizing Cloud credits during the Accelerator may apply here, subject to eligibility review and approval.
Cloud TPUs: Participants are eligible to receive free Cloud TPU access to accelerate open source machine learning research. Find out more.
Key benefits
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Equity-free support
Equity-free support for the duration of the program.
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Mentoring
Dedicated mentoring from Google teams.
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Training
Exclusive invitations to technical bootcamps hosted by Google where offered.
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Access to experts
Access to Google's network of industry experts.
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Early access to AI products
Access new Google AI products and tools as relevant through Trusted Tester and EAP benefits.
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Google product credits
Eligible startups receive product credits.
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Strategic support
Support on company and product strategy.
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Technical project partnership
Work hand in hand with experts from Google on your biggest tech challenges.
Entry criteria
Entry criteria
- Startups based in Southeast Asia with tech solutions solving a meaningful challenge
- Startups demonstrating traction, ideally between Pre-series A and Series B stage
- Building a scalable product or service with for an addressable market with a defensible growth model
- Deeply technical, preferably leveraging technologies like machine learning and AI
- Commitment from founders and technical leads to participate and engage in required program sessions
- Founding teams with a growth mindset with sizable in-house technical expertise
- We are committed to building accelerator classes with great startups, and encourage applications from all qualified startups
Key dates
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August 15, 2026
Program Kick-off
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September 28 - October 9, 2026
Bootcamp
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November, 2026
Graduation and Demo Day
Accelerator Alumni
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Advance is a credit platform that provides short-term salary advances for Filipino employees.
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AffiliateBuddy.ai is an AI-powered creator growth platform that enables content creators to maximize their success through data-driven insights, automation and content optimization.
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aido health is a digital healthcare platform that connect its users to their network of clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies - providing accessible and high quality healthcare via a mobile application.
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AIPLUX builds semantic AI engines that analyze, connect, and evaluate high-value knowledge—empowering smarter decisions in innovation, strategy, and governance.
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AirCity is a platform for landlords to manage tenants and building maintenance.
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Alias is building a AI-native content platform and creation tools whose mission is to disrupt the creator economy by enabling any creator to build immersive agent personas, allowing them to scale their digital presence anywhere and anytime.
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Analitica builds ICA (Interactive Cognitive Assistant), an AI tutor that adapts to each student and helps them learn faster.
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Next level business travel.
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Aruna is Indonesia's largest integrated fishery platform that connects local fishermen directly to customers - improving fishermen livelihood through fair trade, marine ecosystem sustainability, and access to quality seafood for communities.
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Benkon provides and manufactures IOT solution to help business optimize their AC energy consumption using artificial intelligence.
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Betterdata
Betterdata helps enterprise data, IT and emerging tech teams to safely use customer data at scale for AI/ML and analytics with high-quality and privacy-preserving synthetic data.
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Bluente is the world's first business language learning mobile app, delivering bite-sized and personalized courses for working professionals.
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CROWDE is an agriculture-focused financial technology startup that empowers Indonesian farmers with access to capital, and technology that integrates the agriculture ecosystem - optimising cost, productivity, and improving smallholder livelihoods.
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Curieous helps work-influencers create viral writing.
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Dayatani is building an AI-powered farming assistant which helps Indonesian smallholder farmers boost their farm productivity by analyzing yield drivers and providing actionable interventions.
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DeafTawk has created a digital sign language interpretation service platform that breaks down communication barriers.
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DigiMe enables businesses to have accurate and up-to-date geolocation intelligence and AI model for informed decision-making with the geolocation inputs from local gig workers empowered by DigiMe advanced solutions.
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Docosan is a health tech marketplace expanding access to healthcare via online and offline bookings with providers and direct-to-consumer, digitally enabled testing and treatment journeys.
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DoctorTool is a healthtech startup founded with a mission of equitable access to quality healthcare for vulnerable communities in Indonesia.
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Drylab is a specialized artificial intelligence platform, built for biology researchers to streamline their daily tasks, that include scientific questioning, writiting and data analysis.
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Duitin is a digital waste management platform in Indonesia that promotes environmental sustainability by incentivizing recycling with social and economic benefits.
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Easy-Peasy.AI is an all-in-one platform that bundles 300+ AI tools - chat, content, speech, vision, and no-code bots - so teams can create and automate everything in one place.
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We are building a learning ecosystem called Onluyen.vn that adapts to the needs of every learner. Onluyen.vn solves the challenges of scaling personalized learning.
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Elev8 Health is an easy to use, affordable, on-demand AI advisor and health coach to empower individuals and families maximize their healthspan and longevity.
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Elfie reduces the burden of chronic diseases by rewarding patients for self-monitoring.
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Elwyn.ai is building an AI-powered roleplay platform that helps enterprises scale soft skills training at 50% lower cost and 60% faster time-to-competency, enabling frontline teams to master critical conversations through realistic practice scenarios.
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ETON offers end to end logistics and fullfilment services to e-commerce businesses in Vietnam.
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Farmacare is a B2B SaaS platform that streamlines the pharmaceutical supply chain. We offer an all-in-one marketplace and embedded finance solutions that empower pharmacies, clinics, and distributors across the archipelago to manage their operations and procure medicine supplies more efficiently.
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Filum.ai is an Experience Management Platform powered by AI. Our mission is to help businesses grow sustainably by turning all of their customers to loyal customers.
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Fineksi is helping financial institutions streamline their credit process and detect for fraud by ingesting all the borrowers documents and provide AI-based credit analysis.
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Fonos is an Audio Super App offering exclusive audiobooks, book summaries, guided meditations, and Podcourses to support personal and professional development for busy individuals.
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Foodmap Asia operates a B2B and B2C marketplace for farmers and producers in Vietnam.
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Fundiin is the leading provider of Buy Now Pay Later solutions in Vietnam, dedicated to revolutionizing the fintech industry in Southeast Asia. Our paylater products empower merchants to boost their sales while providing consumers with the most financially efficient payment option and the most friendly user experience.
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Genestory offers home-based test kits for DNA analysis and provides expert-led recommendations for Fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, mental health, skin health, and genetic pharmacology.
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Gimo, an earned wage access startup, helps underbanked workers in Vietnam gain access to a portion of earned income.
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GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform that helps customers grow their businesses and reduce operating costs.
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Good Bards is pioneering the world’s first fully autonomous marketing department powered by Agentic AI, offering a CMO-as-a-service, enabling businesses to execute integrated marketing strategies in minutes.
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Good Doctor is Indonesia’s leading telehealth provider, partnering with Grab and 65+ insurers to deliver 24/7 integrated healthcare services—including instant medicine deliveries—to millions through doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies nationwide.
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Transforming the physical playground into the mixed reality and smart playground for children around the world.
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Grivy is an AI-first platform that bridges the gap between online engagement data and offline sales.
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H3Zoom.AI delivers AI-powered building inspection and analytics solutions that help asset owners identify defects, reduce costs, and ensure compliance at scale.
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Hacktiv8 helps train beginner developers, supports them in finding jobs and provides a new, fairer type of student loan.
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Halosis is a conversational commerce platform that empowers Indonesian SMEs to automate sales, marketing, and customer support directly through chat applications.
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HD is the largest healthcare and surgery marketplace in emerging Southeast Asia: "Booking.com for Health + Airbnb for Surgeries".
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igloo is transforming the global physical access industry by developing and designing smart access technology that allows owners and operators to seamlessly manage access to their properties remotely, while keeping their infrastructure costs low.
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INKR is a platform that specializes in helping comic creators and publishers reach global audiences by providing tools for efficient localization, translation, and distribution of their content. Through its AI-driven technology, INKR simplifies the process of making comics accessible to diverse readers around the world.
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Jejakin is climate-tech company that focus on climate actions, which aims to help overcome social and environmental issues.
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Kata.ai has developed a conversational artificial intelligence platform that enables more natural conversations between businesses and their customers.
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Konigle is an AI-powered platform revolutionizing digital marketing and tech for SMEs globally by acting as their 24/7 outsourced team—effortlessly building websites, running campaigns, and deploying custom software through simple chat, empowering businesses to scale smarter.
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LangDB is building an AI gateway offering companies to secure, manage and monitor AI traffic.
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IoT solution monitors water and energy to predict future demand and shortages to optimize resources. Carry out the mission of changing consumer behavior of water and energy towards saving and high efficiency.
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Lexi - Your Legal Co Pilot.
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LIVEN operates an event marketplace connecting individuals and corporates with event service providers, planners and brands related.
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Livwell Asia develops health and protection insurance solutions for individuals, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in India and Vietnam.
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Logisly is a digital third party logistic platform that have served more than 600 B2B customers in Indonesia.
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Loop offers an integrated POS and CRM solution for F&B retailers.
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MagicPort connects ship charterers, owners and managers with a trusted agent and vendor network worldwide on a digital platform with modern software and maritime intelligence to make ships' port visits smart and efficient.
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Mamibabi is Pregnancy and Parenting Super App with the largest courses and knowledge library.
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MHub is an end-to-end property transaction platform which makes the process of buying a home easier by linking property developers, real-estate agents and potential customers.
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Mindtera is an award-winning platform for Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that uses data-driven insights to increase their performance, productivity and well-being and make companies the happiest workplace.
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Momofin helps companies bind outgoing documents to a government-backed ledger, making them traceable, and detect tampering in incoming documents using Vision AI. This ensures both sides of document exchange are authentic and fraud-free without exposing sensitive content.
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Nektar turns everyday go-to-market activity — emails and meetings — into shared, powerful signals that help revenue teams align and close more revenue.
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Nexmedis is an AI-powered healthtech company transforming hospital operations in Indonesia with a smart system for faster and patient-centered care.
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Noice is Indonesia's #1 local audio platform that serves multi-vertical content from podcast, audioseries, live audio, and radio streaming.
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OOOLAB's is an edtech startup based in Vietnam whose LearningOS powers the world’s most delightful learning experiences.
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Opsigo is the leading B2B online travel platform and solutions for travel agents and corporations.
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Pahamify is an online learning platform for K-12 students in Indonesia that provides a test prep solution alongside a personalised and gamified learning experience.
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PAND.AI is building an insurance broker AI agent that helps consumers across Southeast Asia find the most suitable general insurance products in the easiest, simplest and most affordable way.
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Papaya provide the digital claim infrastructure for health insurance. Leveraging the infrastructure Papaya aims to become a managed care organization.
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Pasarmikro is building a commodity trade platfrom whose mission is to disrupt the conventional agricultrural space and upscale smallholder agri and fishing communities in Indonesia.
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Peris.ai tackles the analyst shortage by building an AI-SOC, a modular agentic AI platform that dramatically reduces MTTD and MTTR for security teams.
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AI-Powered Digital Clones and Assistants.
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BUSMAP - Moving towards Mobility as a Service for ASEAN countries: One app for all moving types, real-time info and seamless payment.
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Pintek is an education-focused financial technology startup that democratizes access to quality education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
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Pints AI is building a privacy-first enterprise AI platform that empowers regulated industries to deploy secure, compliant, and high-performance language models tailored to their domain.
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We empower enterprises and salesforces together with ubiquitous Intelligence for the greater good.
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AskLumia is an AI-native platform that generates instant insights using LLMs grounded in research-grade data.
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Portcast helps shippers & forwarders get real-time transportation visibility and optimize freight invoice audit to reduce costs, improve productivity, and enable superior customer experience. The technology leverages proprietary machine learning and generative AI, and extensive public and proprietary data.
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Presight built collaborative business intelligence platform for small medium businesses.
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PrivyID is a digital identity and signature provider that provides seamless user authentication and onboarding.
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Query Vary is the Webflow for technical reports—empowering teams across industries, starting with oil and gas, to create accurate, concise, and scalable documentation for a global market.
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Reforged Labs transforms gaming ads with GenAI. Make every creative a hero creative!
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Reorc (prev. Recurve) is a data pioneer building an AI-powered unified data platform for seamless analytics and high-quality data at scale.
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Rider is building modern logistics to empower online sellers in Pakistan. Rider works with over 1,000 online sellers across 60 cities in Pakistan.
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Riliv has created an online counseling and meditation app to help people with their mental health.
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Rumarocket has developed an AI tool that helps companies make hiring decisions using behavioral science.
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Saner.AI harnesses AI to revolutionize knowledge management by enabling knowledge workers, particularly entrepreneurs with ADHD, to seamlessly connect, search, organize, synthesize, apply, and share knowledge in one intuitive, unified system equipped with a personalized AI assistant that knows all their information.
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Sehat Kahani is working on providing access to affordable, technology-enabled healthcare via a network of qualified home-based women doctors.
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TeleCTG is a digital healthcare platform with connected medical devices that enhances access to quality maternal healthcare in rural Indonesia.
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SenzeHub offers a wearable, AI-powered device that determines a patient's location and does vitals reading and crisis detection.
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Creating AI sales agents for B2B businesses.
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Ship60 is a B2B fulfillment and last mile delivery services for online marketplaces and e-commerce businesses.
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Shoplinks provides consumer-goods clients with tools to digitize their customer engagements and promotions.
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Simplize is a fintech company specializing in AI-powered solutions for securities research, analysis, and trading.
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Smartfuture is a telemedicine platform and self-monitoring diagnostic kiosk that allows users to check key health vitals.
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SmartR is a B2B Saas Talent Management platform that helps businesses to discover, manage and grow their talents, thus improving productivity.
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We building quality analysis using vision for smart manufacture. Idea is to provide nano and micto level realtime inspection.
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Smulie is an AI music Ed-tech company with an ambitious mission to transform instrument learning more effectively through our advanced AI technology.
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SNT provides cloud based automated fleet management system leveraging on AI.
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Sourcy is an AI-powered sourcing platform that converts real-time social-commerce trends into factory-ready products—manufactured and delivered in weeks—so consumer brands can launch the right items faster and at lower cost.
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Speedback is a virtual care platform that uses AI messaging to automate patient engagement and data collection, helping healthcare providers improve outcomes, boost revenue, and reduce costs.
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Speedoc is creating an ecosystem for comprehensive medical care at home to decentralise and democratise healthcare system.
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StreamzAI is a AI-first intelligent sales readiness platform that provides always-on personalized sales coaching to every single person in the sales organization to drive measurable sales uplift.
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Supermom is Southeast Asia’s largest AI-powered parenting data platform, empowering moms to learn, earn, and share, while helping brands connect with parents through deep consumer insights.
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At ThinkPrompt, we harness the power of artificial intelligence to offer unparalleled services in translating and processing both digital documents and visual digital products.
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Thuocsi.vn is an online platform to buy medicine, first aid and dispensary items.
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TopCV is a recruitment platform that better connects recruiters and candidates. -
Traotray.VN is a re-sale platform for pre-owned fashion goods.
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Trialo is an AI-driven platform that extracts and analyzes clinical trial data from regulatory submissions, scientific literature, and corporate documents, providing pharmaceutical companies, investors, and research organizations with comprehensive insights to accelerate drug development and inform investment decisions.
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UIB is an AI software company that simplifies complex integrations across communication channels, helping businesses achieve their goals faster and more efficiently.
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AI-powered Alzheimer’s Disease Detection & Care.
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Unravel Carbon is an AI Platform and AI Agents for Business Sustainability.
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We are a leading conversational AI company that helps businesses revolutionize and enhance customer and employee experiences across voice and other digital channels.
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VECA is a platform connecting scraps buyer and sellers in Vietnam.
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One Platform, Infinite Possibilities. Volantis is an AI-powered business orchestration platform that transforms data into smart, scalable operations.
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Vouch, founded in 2016, helps hotels streamline operations and enhance guest experiences with Vouch HOME, a comprehensive platform that integrates contactless check-in, task management for staff, and a guest request system, enabling smarter hotel management and memorable stays.
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Walee is a trading app to connect businesses looking to sell items online with social influencers who want to collaborate with them. -
Wela School System is building an end-to-end school system (software) where students, and parents can view their grades, announcements, and billing statements through a mobile app. The solution automates processes so that schools can ultimately focus on what is important: delivering quality education.
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Xeratic is building AI model management platform for Indonesian enterprises, that also integrating our line of data management products.
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Frequently asked questions
This cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia will accept applications from Pre-Series A to Series B startups with an AI product headquartered in Southeast Asia. These companies should have AI products solving meaningful problems, launched to market with user traction. Their team should have full time cofounders, stacked tech team with dedicated AI engineers.
Startups selected for the Accelerator will outline their visions, AI use cases, and challenges. They will then participate in an in-person bootcamp featuring tailored content, one-on-one mentorship, and specialized support from our global mentor network. Participants will also gain access to Google’s Cloud, Play, Android, AI/ML, and Ads experts.
Following the bootcamp, startups will have access to Google engineers, experts to develop their AI products on Google AI infrastructure, including but not limited to Gemini and Vertex AI.
Over the subsequent 12 weeks, leading to Graduation and Demo Day, startups and the program team will continue with mentoring and coaching sessions, as well as open workshops.
We seek startups in Southeast Asia addressing significant challenges with AI-based solutions, based on the criteria outlined previously.
Completed applications are reviewed concurrently with the application phase to determine eligibility for the accelerator program. Eligible applications then undergo review by a panel of experts and the program team. Shortlisted startups will be invited for an interview or pitch session to assess their team, the problem they are addressing, their proposed solution, and its scalability. Subsequently, a selection board will review these startups to create the final list. The selected startups will then receive the program contract for signature and official announcement.
The Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program is equity-free for all participating startups. Please note that we do require all founders (CEO and CTO) and appropriate team members to be available to join all elements of the program.
The Accelerator's application window opens in May 2026, and selected startups will be notified in early August. The program kicks off in mid-August and aims to graduate the cohort in early November. You can find the detailed timeline under Key Dates.
Startups must meet specific criteria to be eligible for Google product credit offerings. To learn more about the Google Cloud credit eligibility requirements, please visit the Google Cloud startup page.
Yes. You can view our alumni on the directory page.
Our program provides high-potential startups with the comprehensive support needed to scale effectively. Key benefits include expert mentorship, technical assistance from various teams across Google, including DeepMind, alongside early access to emerging Google technologies (conditions applied). The program further drives growth by facilitating strategic industry connections, investor showcases, tech ecosystem immersion tours and access to startup capital assistance from program partners.
Click here to learn more about the program benefits (T&Cs apply).