Posted by Iran Karimian, Startup Developer Ecosystem Lead, Canada

It’s an unlucky reality that girls founders are massively underrepresented amongst venture-backed entrepreneurs and VC buyers, with corporations based solely by girls receiving lower than 3% of all enterprise capital investments. In response to this, it has turn into extra obvious of the necessity to spend money on girls entrepreneurs in alternate methods – similar to mentorship steering and technical assist to assist develop and scale their enterprise.

Again in 2020, we launched the Google for Startups Accelerator: Ladies Founders program to bridge the gender hole within the North American startup ecosystem, and supply high-quality mentorship alternatives, technical steering, assist and group for ladies founders within the area. Since then, this system has supported 36 women-led startups throughout North America, who’ve collectively raised $73.46M USD since graduating from their cohort. Now in its fourth 12 months, the equity-free, 10-week intensive digital accelerator program offers women-led startups the instruments they should put together for the following part of their progress journey.

At the moment, we’re excited to introduce the 11 spectacular women-led startups chosen to take part within the 2023 cohort:

Aravenda (Fairfax, VA) is a complete consignment store software program that’s main innovation within the quickest rising section of retail via resales.

BorderlessHR (Ottawa, ON) gives world expertise options for small companies, offering instantaneous matches to pre-vetted expertise and AI-powered interviewers, saving SMBs the price and time spent hiring the precise expertise on time and inside finances. Borderless HR additionally gives a free suite of HR merchandise to assist handle expertise.

Cobble (New York Metropolis, NY) is a platform that helps folks attain collaborative settlement with others on concepts. Cobble gives a mixture of decision-making instruments, curated content material and AI-driven social connections.

Craftmerce (Delaware Metropolis, DE) is a B2B know-how platform that hyperlinks African artisans to mainstream retail companions by offering instruments for distributed manufacturing, enterprise administration, and financing.

Dreami (Redwood Metropolis, Calif.) powers data-driven profession improvement packages for the 36 million folks within the US who face limitations to employment.

Medijobs (New York Metropolis, NY) gives digital recruiting for the healthcare trade.

Monark (Calgary, AB) is a digital management improvement platform, making ready the following technology of leaders via on-demand customized studying.

NLPatent (Toronto, ON) is an AI-patent search and analytics platform that makes use of a fine-tuned giant language mannequin, constructed from the bottom up, to know the language of innovation.

Rejoy Well being (Mountain View, Calif.) is an AI-powered cell utility that makes use of pc imaginative and prescient know-how to ship at-home bodily remedy, enabling people to successfully handle and alleviate continual musculoskeletal circumstances like again and joint ache.

Shimmer (San Francisco, Calif.) is an ADHD teaching platform that connects adults with ADHD and professional ADHD coaches for behavioral teaching.

Complete Life (Jupiter, FL) reimagines growing old for older adults via a simple, one-click platform that connects customers with a Medicare coated healthcare supplier.

By means of data-driven insights, and leveraging the ability of AI and ML, these women-led startups are main innovation within the North American tech scene. We’re thrilled to have them be part of the 10-week intensive digital program, connecting them to one of the best of Google’s packages, merchandise, folks and know-how to assist them attain their objectives and unlock their subsequent part of progress. The 2023 Google for Startups Accelerator: Ladies Founders program kicks off this September.