The initiative officially begins at the Google Safety Engineering Center in Munich on February 15. Over the next three months, each startup will collaborate closely with Google AI and cybersecurity experts through customized workshops and mentoring sessions to responsibly grow their businesses.
Get to know more about our latest cohort below. And for more information about the Google for Startups Growth Academy and other Google for Startups offerings, visit startup.google.com.
The entire cohort
Alma Security (New York, U.S.): Alma Security serves as a security guard for your apps. It seamlessly integrates into any production environment without requiring code changes to ensure that your apps are protected from end to end.
Authologic (Warsaw, Poland): Authologic is establishing a global e-ID hub through API for government-issued digital IDs, identity wallets, and bank IDs.
BforeAI (Montpellier, France): BforeAI assists companies in predicting and defending against attacks before they occur and safeguarding against fake websites or accounts that seek to harm a company’s reputation.
Blacklight (London, UK): Blacklight is an intelligent security system that utilizes AI to detect threats, identify the most dangerous ones, and prevent these cyberattacks before they cause issues.
Cakewalk (Berlin, Germany): Cakewalk offers Access Management in a streamlined manner, aiding fast-moving companies in ensuring their employees’ access to apps is seamless and secure. The platform enables comprehensive app discovery, automated access requests, and secure on- and offboarding.
Cesare.ai (Paris, France): Cesare.ai specializes in making AI actionable across various industries. It transforms LLMs into professional tools for companies, securely augmenting teams and scaling operations with industry-specific AI solutions.
Ethiack (Coimbra, Portugal): Ethiack is an autonomous ethical hacking platform that continuously tests for weaknesses, identifies vulnerabilities, and shares ways to address them to keep systems safe from cyber attacks.
Gomboc.ai (New York, U.S.): Gomboc.ai automatically resolves cloud security issues to ensure everything continues to function properly, including addressing any security policy violations.
HACKERverse (Chicago, U.S.): HACKERverse is an AI-driven cybersecurity marketplace, community, and digital events host. The HACKERverse marketplace enables Chief Information Security Officers and other buyers to test solutions they are considering through automated demos before making a purchase.
Kriptos (Miami, U.S.): Kriptos is a software that utilizes AI to analyze, classify, and label documents automatically, preventing data leakage, enhancing cybersecurity strategies, and achieving compliance regulations.
LetsData (Dover, U.S.): LetsData provides AI radar against disinformation, offering real-time media and social media monitoring in more than 50 countries to empower state agencies, businesses, and civil societies to proactively manage risks and seize opportunities in the face of disinformation.
Nijta (Lille, France): Nijta helps companies improve their services using recorded customer calls while safeguarding customer privacy by using AI to alter the voices in the recordings to prevent identification.
Patchstack (Pärnu, Estonia): Patchstack focuses on open-source security, identifying new security vulnerabilities and assisting open-source vendors in addressing security issues and mitigating vulnerabilities.
Quantum Dice (Oxford, UK): Quantum Dice utilizes the fundamental quantum properties of light to enable secure encryption through its patented self-certifying Quantum Random Number Generator.
ShareID (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France): ShareID is an authentication-as-a-service solution that enhances authentication to sensitive or regulated services by pairing your official government ID with a facial scan to ensure that it’s unmistakably you.
Talsec (Brno, Czech Republic): Talsec functions as a security agent within your phone apps, providing specialized tools for app developers to protect apps from hackers, conceal important information, and detect sneaky malware.
Zepo (Ciudad Real, Spain): Zepo offers businesses an integrated and automated AI-powered solution to address the significant cybersecurity gap: human risk. Zepo’s intelligence helps customers secure employees and the digital workplace.
