Growth Academy:
AI for Cybersecurity
A hybrid program designed to support startups using AI to innovate responsibly in the cybersecurity market. The program will provide startups with the essential growth skills, internationalization strategies, and Google tools and products to help them scale.
Growth Academy:
AI for Cybersecurity
About the program
About the program
A three-month program for the most promising startups using AI technology to grow and innovate responsibly in the Cybersecurity space, to provide them with essential growth skills, internationalization strategies, and Google tools and products to help them scale. Selected founders will work with a mix of Google and external industry experts in a series of workshops and will receive mentoring across strategy, sales, and partnerships.
After the initial three months of core content, startups continue to receive product support and mentorship from Google to help them address their challenges.
The kick-off and graduation sessions will be held in person. The locations will be made public in the coming months.
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Hear from the last cohort
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Discover key insights about the program's offerings from our recent startup alumni and their mentors, and learn about the ways in which we can assist you in expanding your business.
Key benefits
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Equity-free support
Three months of equity-free support.
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Custom mentoring
Technical consulting, tailored support, and advice from Google mentors and industry experts.
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Strategic support
Support on company and product strategy.
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Ad-hoc leadership training
Learn more about effective leadership skills based on knowledge and data shared by Google.
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Go global
Support from mentors and Google teams on new international opportunities, to expand your business to new markets.
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Networking opportunities
Meet and connect with fellow founders to grow your network, learn from others, and contribute to a bigger community.
Program criteria
Program criteria
- Seed to Series A startups that are looking to scale internationally.
- Focused on leveraging AI to address cybersecurity challenges such as prevention, protection, research, and/or threat analysis and sharing.
- Startups must have demonstrated traction (funding, users, revenue).
- Startups must have a scalable product or service, with both a significant total addressable market and a defensible growth model.
Alumni
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Averlon is the trusted wingmate for cloud security teams, empowering analysts with precise risk prioritization, mitigation, and remediation. Acting as an infinitely scalable digital assistant, it unifies risk insights and delivers recommendations—across policy, runtime, vulnerabilities, containers, and code—adapted to each customer’s unique environment and risk profile to outpace threats with confidence.UNITED STATES
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Cerby enhances enterprise security by connecting applications and manual workflows that don't integrate with central identity systems like Okta or Sailpoint to those providers. This automation eliminates manual security measures, centralizes management, and replaces the need for separate password managers, improving overall security and compliance.
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CounterCraft delivers actionable threat intelligence, powered by deception, drawing attackers away from critical assets with a digital twin of the network. This proactive approach provides real-time threat signals, enabling rapid response to cyber threats, minimizing data breach risks, and offering detailed telemetry on threat actors’ actions.
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DeepTrust helps security and fraud teams prevent financial losses from live voice and video based attacks by providing layered call security across platforms that works in real-time to detect social engineering and deepfakes, then provides employees with personalized guidance on how to handle threats.
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Equixly is an AI-powered platform that automates API penetration testing, focusing on identifying critical business logic vulnerabilities. This allows organizations to proactively manage API security risks and ensure the safety of their digital ecosystems.
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ESPROFILER is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to optimizing enterprise security portfolios. They empower organizations to maximize the value of their security investments by identifying gaps, prioritizing investments, and ensuring maximum product adoption.
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IT-Harvest is a data-driven industry analyst firm that provides a platform for researching 4,000+ cybersecurity vendors and 11,300+ products. Their dashboard and AI Assistant are used to gain insights into the cybersecurity market.
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Mitigant is an innovative Adversarial Exposure Validation platform built for cloud-native infrastructure. This platform integrates Cloud Attack Emulation, AI-Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), and Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) to deliver comprehensive and proactive security for modern cloud-native environments.
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Moxso is an AI-driven cybersecurity company that addresses the human element in cyberattacks. Their platform uses AI to automate targeted phishing simulations and risk-based training for employees. By focusing on the most vulnerable individuals and automating many processes, Moxso helps businesses build a strong security culture and reduce their risk.
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Qalea is a cybersecurity and compliance platform designed for mid-market businesses, that simplifies security management by unifying various protection technologies into a single, user-friendly interface, eliminating the need to deal with multiple vendors. Leveraging AI and large language models, Qalea automates security processes.
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Qualifire is a real-time evaluations platform for LLM-based applications. It helps businesses deploy safe and reliable AI solutions by continuously monitoring, detecting and blocking anomalies, hallucinations, and policy violations in real-time, ensuring their AI applications adhere to quality standards, comply with regulations, and maintain brand integrity.
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Secretarium's zero-trust platform, Klave, drives advancements in Confidential AI by enabling the secure and efficient deployment of AI within enclaves. With built-in support for AI libraries through its SDK, Klave ensures the complete protection of inputs and outputs, as well as the model intellectual property while delivering reliable AI services in the cloud.
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Steryon is a Cyber Resilience & Risk Management Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), tailored for industrial infrastructures and OT asset owners. As a vendor-agnostic technology, it offers a unified view of CPS ensuring continuous operational resilience and intelligent risk management with smart and effective remediation.
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System Two Security is a cybersecurity platform that leverages AI to automate detection engineering and threat hunting. It simplifies and accelerates threat response by creating custom models, automating detection creation, managing detection lifecycles, and optimizing rules for faster adversary detection.
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Wodan AI is a cutting-edge security platform that provides data privacy and end-to-end security for AI users. Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption as the cornerstone technology of the platform, it ensures total data security for AI, enabling the most sensitive and private use cases to leverage AI.
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XFA is the device security solution that seamlessly identifies every device used by people in your organization, informs users about risks, and verifies compliance with the security policy for each device during login — all without needing direct control or management of the devices.
Talking to some of the worldwide leaders in cybersecurity from VirusTotal or Mandiant is very useful. We have access to mentors who have an incredible track record in the industry and such a value can’t be quantified.
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