Google announces startup accelerator programme for women-led startups

Google on Tuesday announced the launch of the Google for Startups accelerator programme for women-led startups. This is the first time that the tech giant is announcing a women-founder focused programme in India.

The programme for women-focused founders will have two cohorts for this year and each cohort will support 20 women founders. The application for the first cohort for this programme will begin from today and Google will select 20 women-led startups for the programme.

The sector agnostic programme will focus on the early stage to a series A startup.

One of the reasons for starting a women-founder focused by Google was the abysmal percentage of funding going to these startups.