{"id":1000356,"date":"2026-04-01T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000356"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:38:51","slug":"google-india-invites-ai-startups-for-2026-startup-accelerator-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/google-india-invites-ai-startups-for-2026-startup-accelerator-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Google India invites AI startups for 2026 startup accelerator programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google India is inviting applications for the 2026 cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator programme, focussing on artificial intelligence (AI)-first startups from seed to Series A stages. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said the three-month, equity-free initiative will target Indian companies tackling local challenges or developing specialised models for global use. It prioritises four areas: agentic AI for reasoning and automation workflows, multimodal AI covering audio, video, and image generation, physical AI in smart manufacturing and robotics, and sovereign AI for localised models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google India is inviting applications for the 2026 cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator programme, focussing on artificial intelligence (AI)-first startups from seed to Series A stages. In a statement, the company said the three-month, equity-free initiative will target Indian companies tackling local challenges or developing specialised models for global use. It prioritises four areas: agentic AI for reasoning and automation workflows, multimodal AI covering audio, video, and image generation, physical AI in smart manufacturing and robotics, and sovereign AI for localised models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}