Google recently announced a new program known as -- "Solve for India". Going by the name, the program is entitled to solve problems that a major part of the Indians have been facing from years together. With this initiative, Google focuses in expanding and energizing the start-up ecosystem and inspire the sprouting entrepreneurs to "Solve for India" and its underserved users need, says Google.
The "Solve for India" program is aim to inspire the new slot of entrepreneurs and startups in emerging cities like Pune, Jaipur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Kolkata, Madurai, Indore, Nasik, Kanpur, and Chennai. Google further notes that "Solve for India" program will provide a platform for developers, entrepreneurs in tier 2 cities to hear from experts and learn about the latest Google technologies and get access to direct mentoring and support from Google.
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The Google’s ‘Solve for India’ program will provide entrepreneurs get an opportunity to get lessons directly from Google engineers, who will share product usage awareness, how to develop mobile first solutions with strong offline and language capabilities and help them to make solutions across areas like Agriculture -tech, Education, Healthcare, Sanitation, Transportation and many more.
"A major part of India's Internet users are Indian language users, and up to 80% of them access the Internet from their mobile phones. But the present Indian startup ecosystem is crafting products for English speaking audience and caters only to 15 per cent of the total population. There's growing number of entrepreneurs in smaller Indian cities who aim on building solutions that facilitates to the real needs of India.
The Program Manager Lead for Google India, Karthik Padmanabhan said, through this initiative program we want to bring the best of Google under one program and join forces with them to help create products that serve the requirements of a billion Indians.
Hundreds of Developers and Entrepreneurs will be able to gain from a wide category of Google's program starting from Google Launchpad mentoring program which will help them to develop, scale and accelerate early stage product ideas into category leaders. Enroll for the fourth batch of Launchpad accelerator program that provides six month mentorship program that cover all aspects of product design, business models, technology support to build for scale and go to market strategies along with $50,000 equity free investments. And for startups who're looking to build scalable products Google will provide over $20,000 of cloud credits.
Google said that developers can also look forward to build on their skills and learn from experts on latest in Android, Firebase, Machine learning, Cloud APIs, Progressive Web Apps and Indian Language Translation solutions.
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