Meet the Google for Startups Accelerator: Girls Founders Class of 2023 — Google for Builders Weblog

Posted by Iran Karimian, Startup Developer Ecosystem Lead, Canada

It’s an unlucky reality that girls founders are massively underrepresented amongst venture-backed entrepreneurs and VC buyers, with corporations based solely by ladies receiving lower than 3% of all enterprise capital investments. In response to this, it has turn out to be extra obvious of the necessity to put money into ladies entrepreneurs in alternate methods – equivalent to mentorship steerage and technical help to assist develop and scale their enterprise.

Again in 2020, we launched the Google for Startups Accelerator: Girls Founders program to bridge the gender hole within the North American startup ecosystem, and supply high-quality mentorship alternatives, technical steerage, help and group for girls founders within the area. Since then, this system has supported 36 women-led startups throughout North America, who’ve collectively raised $73.46M USD since graduating from their cohort. Now in its fourth 12 months, the equity-free, 10-week intensive digital accelerator program gives women-led startups the instruments they should put together for the subsequent part of their progress journey.

In the present day, we’re excited to introduce the 11 spectacular women-led startups chosen to take part within the 2023 cohort:

Aravenda (Fairfax, VA) is a complete consignment store software program that’s main innovation within the quickest rising phase of retail by resales.

BorderlessHR (Ottawa, ON) provides international expertise options for small companies, offering on the spot matches to pre-vetted expertise and AI-powered interviewers, saving SMBs the associated fee and time spent hiring the precise expertise on time and inside funds. Borderless HR additionally provides a free suite of HR merchandise to assist handle expertise.

Cobble (New York Metropolis, NY) is a platform that helps individuals attain collaborative settlement with others on concepts. Cobble provides a mix of decision-making instruments, curated content material and AI-driven social connections.

Craftmerce (Delaware Metropolis, DE) is a B2B expertise platform that hyperlinks African artisans to mainstream retail companions by offering instruments for distributed manufacturing, enterprise administration, and financing.

Dreami (Redwood Metropolis, Calif.) powers data-driven profession growth packages for the 36 million individuals within the US who face limitations to employment.

Medijobs (New York Metropolis, NY) provides digital recruiting for the healthcare business.

Monark (Calgary, AB) is a digital management growth platform, getting ready the subsequent technology of leaders by on-demand customized studying.

NLPatent (Toronto, ON) is an AI-patent search and analytics platform that makes use of a fine-tuned giant language mannequin, constructed from the bottom up, to grasp the language of innovation.

Rejoy Well being (Mountain View, Calif.) is an AI-powered cell utility that makes use of laptop imaginative and prescient expertise to ship at-home bodily remedy, enabling people to successfully handle and alleviate continual musculoskeletal circumstances like again and joint ache.

Shimmer (San Francisco, Calif.) is an ADHD teaching platform that connects adults with ADHD and professional ADHD coaches for behavioral teaching.

Complete Life (Jupiter, FL) reimagines getting older for older adults by a simple, one-click platform that connects customers with a Medicare lined healthcare supplier.

By data-driven insights, and leveraging the ability of AI and ML, these women-led startups are main innovation within the North American tech scene. We’re thrilled to have them be part of the 10-week intensive digital program, connecting them to the very best of Google’s packages, merchandise, individuals and expertise to assist them attain their objectives and unlock their subsequent part of progress. The 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator: Girls Founders program kicks off this September.