Google launches fund to aid Israeli, PA startups

Search big Google has introduced the organising of a $4 million help fund for Israeli startups in AI options and companies. The fund enhances the emergency fund of the Israel Innovation Authority, which offers emergency grants to firms with a brief working horizon (as much as six months).

About twenty startups in want of fast finance with a purpose to proceed in operation will obtain grants. Google will even advise and help them individually, and supply entry to its specialists in improvement, technique, advertising and marketing, and different fields.

The exact variety of startups and the dimensions of the grants will rely on how a lot the businesses themselves search. They might want to current matching funding from the Innovation Authority.

For the reason that terror assault by Hamas on October 7, Google has come out with a number of initiatives. Amongst different issues, Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced a $3 million donation to the NATAL group, which offers psychological help for folks affected by trauma from conflict and terrorist assaults, and $1 million in search advertisements for NGOs in Israel to help them in reaching folks and offering info. Google workers in Israel and world wide have raised thousands and thousands of shekels for emergency companies Magen David Adom, United Hatzalah, and psychological well being service Eran.

The Israeli fund is an element of a bigger, $8 million fund arrange within the wake of the conflict and aimed toward Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 25, 2024.

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