Meet the Startups
Twelve startups have been selected for the fourth Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders cohort. These startups are leveraging AI and ML technology to bring solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges in healthcare and medicine, energy, finance and even empowering the creator economy. We're excited to work with these startups over the next 10 weeks and help accelerate their growth journey.
AfroHealth, Inc.
Dallas, TX
AfroHealth is a digital health & wellness platform that harnesses the power of AI and human touch to provide personalized healthcare coaching to Black and Brown communities. AfroHealth is dedicated to closing the health disparity gap by making quality, culturally competent healthcare accessible and affordable.
Glenwood, MD
Akeptus is an AI-powered energy management platform that provides real-time insights and control to optimize usage, reduce waste, and strengthen grid resilience. Leveraging predictive analytics and patented NILM technology, Akeptus delivers appliance-specific energy insights and recommendations that empower utilities and consumers to manage consumption intelligently.
New York, NY
CareCopilot is an intelligent, curated marketplace of key services that families need when caring for elderly loved ones.
Alpharetta, GA
eBanqo is a customer engagement AI platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to provide instant and seamless service to their customers across all channels, 24/7.
Hamilton, ON
Expedier is the first Black-led, Black-Owned & BIPOC facing Digital Bank in Canada serving 6 million underserved BIPOC Canadians.
San Francisco, CA
Hue is an AI-powered video platform that helps brands generate and display short-form video reviews on e-commerce. Hue sources reviews from a vetted community of real people across skin tones, skin types, and ages, and provides customers visual proof that products work for their unique needs, improving brand’s and retailer’s conversion, sales and time on site.
Washington, D.C.
IndyGeneUS (pronounced “indigenous”) is a precision medicine company using next-generation sequencing technologies to identify unique gene variants in diseases that affect underrepresented populations. By pairing a patient-centric approach and philosophy with a proprietary blockchain-encrypted precision health discovery platform, IndyGeneUS aims to become the trusted resource for delivering high-quality and reliable disease insights and molecular and cellular therapeutic development and bioprocessing, inclusive of populations underrepresented in genetic research.
St. Louis, MO
Kwema is the world's first smart badge reel containing a hidden duress button, that empowers clinicians to unobtrusively call for help when facing patient violence.
New York, NY
My Home Pathway is a technology platform that uses a proprietary algorithm to guide first-time home buyers to approval faster by analyzing data and providing individualized recommendations to improve risk profiles to meet mortgage underwriting requirements of their partners.
Boulder, CO
Pagedip is a no-code content publishing app that allows users to create beautifully efficient, powerfully effective and demonstrably measurable documents that work better for teams and their customers.
Scottsdale, AZ
Plannly Health is a patent-pending risk management software dedicated to mitigating the risk of human errors in hospitals, by offering a digital health solution that addresses provider stress, burnout, and critical life events or changes.
Chicago, IL
Rivet is an AI-driven platform that helps creator teams use machine learning to find and understand their high-potential fans and provides actions and automations to unlock more revenue from them.