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Google today announced the third batch of Indian startups that will join the Launchpad Accelerator programme at Google Headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. The seven Indian startups selected to be a part of the programme include Flyrobe, HashLearn, Rentomojo, KaptureCRM, Curofy, Happy Adda Studios, and Playment.
The selected startups will become a part of the six-month mentorship programme for mid to late stage startups will include $50K in equity-free funding, a two-week all-expenses paid boot camp at Google Headquarters, six months of ongoing mentorship and access to Google’s full suite of Launchpad initiatives and connections and product credits including Google Cloud and other products. They will join the programme from January 30, 2017 at Launchpad Space in San Francisco.
Paul Ravindranath G, Program Manager, Launchpad Accelerator said, “We are delighted to help Indian startups in their journey and help them to scale and find success in their endeavours. Access to good mentoring and advice at early to mid -stage can make a meaningful difference. Over the last one year, 13 Indian startups have participated in the programme and many have already gained from the programme and have successfully raised funding. We hope the next batch will continue to find value in the programme and help them to succeed.”
These startups will join other startups from Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Mexico. The two-week boot camp will start by determining each startup’s critical challenges, and then deploy precise mentorship, actionable solutions, and Google resources that enable their product/app to scale.
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Prior to this in December 2015, Google announced the launch of the Launchpad accelerator program. At that time six Indian startups, Frankly.me, Holachef, Justride, Murmur, Nestaway and English Dost were selected for the programme from India. Earlier this year, six Indian startups were selected for the second batch of its accelerator programme. The startups included Taskbob, MagicPin, Programming Hub, ShareChat, RedCarpet, PlaySimple Games.
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