Google Startups for Sustainable Development Program 2025, Worldwide

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Google Startups for Sustainable Development

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August 5, 2025

Deadline:

September 30, 2025: 12:00 am

Description

The Startups for Sustainable Development program aims to support impact startups and entrepreneurs focused on one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals. We are looking for mission-driven teams who are leveraging technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Who Should Apply

To be considered for the program, your startup should meet the following criteria

  • Impact-Driven:  addressing one or more of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a direct, measurable way

  • Technology-First (software or hardware): Have a technology-based product or service with an innovative angle. We are especially interested in startups leveraging AI.

  • Proven Traction: Applicants should be past the “idea stage”, have at least Proof of Concept, MVP a plus

  • Scalable Model: Demonstrate the potential for significant growth and impact at scale

  • Team: For profit startups with full-time founders

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September 30, 2025

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Google Startups for Sustainable Development

Oranisation Overview

Google's SDG Accelerator announced

The Startups for Sustainable Development program has evolved over the years to serve the needs of startups at scale. The importance of both personal support through mentorship and advising, and technological support through research and AI, has been consistent throughout.Around the world, the number of startups addressing the world’s most pressing social challenges was rapidly growing. To Google, it was clear that technology could help address some of the world’s biggest challenges, from empowering others to use AI to address social challenges, to setting ambitious and long-term environmental sustainability goals.

On Nov 5, 2019, Kate Brandt, Google's Chief Sustainability Officer, with executive sponsorship from VP Engineering Yossi Matias, announced Google's first SDG Accelerator. Focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the program was designed to address the unique challenges founders face when building a social impact company. It planned to include 8 to 10 startups that would take part in a 6-month accelerator program in early 2020.