{"id":976527,"date":"2025-11-25T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976527"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:05:16","slug":"google-doubles-down-on-india-ai-opportunity-with-plan-to-fund-local-ai-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/google-doubles-down-on-india-ai-opportunity-with-plan-to-fund-local-ai-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Google doubles down on India AI opportunity with plan to fund local AI startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc.&#8217;s Google and venture capital firm Accel will partner to fund at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups, in the first such funding partnership involving the search giant.<\/p>\n<p>Under the partnership, Google&#8217;s AI Futures Fund and Accel will co-invest up to $2 million in each startup, Accel partner Prayank Swaroop told Reuters in an interview, with the investments focussed on the wide areas of entertainment, creativity, work and coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc.&#8217;s Google and venture capital firm Accel will partner to fund at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups, in the first such funding partnership involving the search giant. Under the partnership, Google&#8217;s AI Futures Fund and Accel will co-invest up to $2 million in each startup, Accel partner Prayank Swaroop told Reuters in an interview, with the investments focussed on the wide areas of entertainment, creativity, work and coding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976527","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}