Google expands its Launchpad Accelerator program to Europe and Africa
Today, Google has announced the 4th class of its Launchpad Accelerator program, including the initial launch of the program in Europe and Africa. Launchpad Accelerator includes intensive mentoring from 20+ teams across Google and expert mentors from top technology companies and VCs in Silicon Valley.
Participants receive equity-free support, credits for Google products and continue to work closely with Google back in their home country during the 6-month program. Additionally, the latest class will kick-off on July 17th, 2017 and here’s the list of all the various participants:
Africa
- Kenya
- Twiga Foods Ltd: Tech-enabled sourcing and distribution platform that replaces informal wholesale markets in Africa’s urban markets.
- Nigeria
- Delivery Science: Mobile forms that help large organizations obtain field data.
- Gidi Mobile Limited: Mobile learning platform that uses “mastery learning” & social gamification to help users with personal development.
- Flutterwave: Flutterwave builds technology and infrastructure for digital commerce across Africa.
- Paystack: Helps businesses in Africa accept payments from their customers.
- South Africa
- JUMO Marketplace: Jumo is the largest scale, lowest cost financial services marketplace for emerging markets.
Asia
- India
- EdGE Networks: HR solutions provider powered by Artificial Intelligence
- FastFilmz: The Super App for Super Fans of South Indian movies!
- IndiaLends: Credit underwriting and analytics platform for unsecured consumer lending
- RailYatri: Intelligent, big data platform that leverages crowd-sourced content to help long distance travelers
- RecipeBook: Intelligent solutions in food and retail powered by deep learning computer vision.
- SigTuple: Smart screening solutions powered by data driven intelligence.
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- HealthMetrics: Assisting companies managing their employee health benefits efficiently and cost effectively.
- Philippines
- BLOOM: Transforming remittance businesses with blockchain technology.
- Honesty Apps: A Do-it-yourself mobile application platform for both iOS and Android.
- Singapore
- Cicil: We allow Indonesian university students to purchase items online, and pay for them in monthly installments without a credit card!
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- eDoctor: Allows users to consult doctors anytime, anywhere.
Europe
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- PublishDrive: Intelligent SaaS enabled ebook publishing platform to increase sales globally.
- Poland
- DrOmnibus: Multimedia tools that support special needs education and therapy for children with developmental and behavioral disorders.
Latin America
- Argentina
- Increase: Simplifies and modernizes how merchants and companies understand, control and manage their income.
- Brazil
- Arquivei: Empowers companies with smart data from fiscal documents fetch & analysis.
- Contabilizei: Tax reporting and accounting SaaS for small businesses in Brazil.
- Contratado.ME: The marketplace that puts candidates at the center of their job search.
- Guiche Virtual: The app for booking bus tickets in Brazil .
- Chile
- ComparaOnline: The best and the most transparent marketplace for financial products in Latin America.
- Mexico
- InstaFit Workouts: Mobile fitness subscription platform for Spanish speakers.
- Switch: Low cost, mobile bill pay.
It’s great to see Google lend its hand to these various startup businesses, and each class will include 2 weeks of all-expense-paid training. Additionally, the program will be working closely with each company for up to 6 months, and offers access to Google engineers, resources, and mentors.
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