{"id":234585,"date":"2026-06-21T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:15:15","slug":"supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Kiwi Innovation with the Google for Startups Accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-nz\/company-news\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/\">Supporting Kiwi Innovation with the Google for Startups Accelerator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-nz\/company-news\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/\">https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-nz\/company-news\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-21 18:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"blog.google\">blog.google<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Expansion:<\/strong> Google has expanded its Google for Startups Accelerator program to include New Zealand, joining with Australia for the first time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Target Startups:<\/strong> The program focuses on Seed and Series A startups using AI and machine learning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Program Details:<\/strong> The accelerator is a 10-week, equity-free, hybrid program running from September to November.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Success Stories:<\/strong> The expansion was inspired by successful Kiwi startups Atomic Tessellator and ThroughLine, which achieved significant breakthroughs with Google&#8217;s guidance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Support Benefits:<\/strong> Selected startups gain direct mentorship from Google AI experts, access to Google products and infrastructure, collaboration opportunities with peers in Australia and New Zealand, and strategic masterclasses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Application Deadline:<\/strong> Startups have until July 19th to apply for the program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Impact:<\/strong> The program aims to help Kiwi startups leverage technology to make a global impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporting Kiwi Innovation with the Google for Startups Accelerator https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-nz\/company-news\/supporting-kiwi-innovation-with-the-google-for-startups-accelerator\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-21 18:13:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/images\/Google_AI_Accelerator-9935.width-1300.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234587,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234585\/revisions\/234587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}