2022 Founders Academy for women-led APAC startups

Founders Academy is a twelve-week, skill-building mentorship program for women-led startups in APAC. It is designed to help founders improve their leadership skills, strengthen their team relationships, and address their unique growth challenges including capital and funding. Through group workshops and 1:1 coaching run by Google advisors and industry experts, we aim to support founders solve roadblocks and take their companies to the next level.

Google is looking for growth-stage startups, fulfilling the following criteria:

• Women-founded startups in APAC
• A diverse team, with at least one women founder
• Building an innovative and scalable product or service
• Demonstrating traction (users, revenue)
• Ideally between Seed to Series A stage
• Willing to give back and contribute to the local startup community
• Fully committed to the entire duration of the program (min. 3 hours a week)

Benefits of the Program:

• Workshops around leadership and funding; 1:1 mentoring sessions on business and technology 
• Access to Google's experts, industry leaders, partners, startup ecosystem, and investors 
• A dedicated team of Google mentors help you achieve your program Objectives and goals (OKR) 
• Pitch training, Demo day

Key Dates

• Application Deadline: 2022.7.1
• Program Start Date: 2022.8.22
• Program End Date: 2022.11.18

Apply now!