Google Cloud is expanding its work with Enterprise Singapore, Indonesia’s Komdigi, the Vietnam National Innovation Center, and the Startup and Innovation Hub of Ho Chi Minh City to build an AI startup innovation corridor stretching from Southeast Asia to Silicon Valley.
This setup centers on the new Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia, a cross-border initiative built to help founders develop and commercialize proprietary agentic AI products. By combining engineering and go-to-market partnerships with Google Cloud, the program sets up a direct path for regional startups to scale up internationally.
The initiative made its debut during the Google for Startups Sprint at Google’s Asia Pacific headquarters, bringing founders together with investors and government officials spanning 85 countries. Since 2018, these regional accelerators have assisted over 200 early-stage startups in building products, raising US$6.6 billion in funding, and generating 11,300 jobs.
Targeting Seed to Series B AI startups across six countries, the 3-month program includes an immersive, in-person California residency where founders go through technical deep-dives at Google’s Mountain View and San Francisco campuses, plus they get to connect with venture capital clusters along Sand Hill Road and Palo Alto to test their products against global benchmarks.
Eligible startups can tap into full-stack AI infrastructure, including Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), Agentic Data Cloud, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Google Antigravity, backed by up to US$350,000 in cloud credits under the Google for Startups Cloud Program for training, fine-tuning, and serving AI agents.
Participants get early access to next-generation AI models, including the latest Gemini 3.5 models and agentic enterprise tooling before general market release. The program also offers technical upskilling through bootcamps at Google Developer Space, Garuda Spark Innovation Hub, NIC facilities, and SIHUB headquarters, covering agentic coding, AI context engineering, large language model operations (LLMOps), and multi-agent system orchestration.
Teams will also work through structured product development sprints and architectural reviews with technical leads from Google Cloud’s engineering center and Google DeepMind’s AI research lab in Singapore, alongside mentorship from teams across Android, Google Ads, Google Pay, and Google Play, culminating in a product showcase at a Google-hosted demo day and startup summit in Singapore.
Applications are currently open for up to 25 startups to join the equity-free program, which is scheduled to begin in August this year, with EnterpriseSG, Komdigi, NIC, and SIHUB delivering localized support for selected businesses from Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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