Our Launchpads.
Wellstreet launchpads
Who can participate?
Guests: we offer “Guest Passes” with the aim of inviting and giving back to the startup community. We also use these occasions to validate deal flow and make it an opportunity to demonstrate our proactive approach.
Support: we also leverage the partnership to support key strategic events and initiatives, such as the opening of our Hub in Gothenburg or when we curated a Launchpad Event for underrepresented founders through our partner initiative Shift.
What do participants get?
Benefits: because participants are our portfolio companies or companies that we are looking into making an investment in, we can curate the content to a very high degree and make it relevant “now”, at all stages of growth.
Competitive advantage: through our partnerships, we give our companies the best chance of success - it's a competitive advantage, giving them access to mentors and an international network.
Network access: our events allow us to bring the best of our network together with all our portfolio companies and the community.
Method: each event comprises a collection of sessions: workshops, fireside chats, technical training and mentoring 1-on-1s.
Access to partner's offerings: we also promote and encourage our portfolio and entrepreneurial network to collaborate and exchange knowledge and expertise with each other. We promote this possibility in different settings, both through larger events and 1-on-1 meetings.
What our companies say.
It was impressive to hear a person talk about a business he does not know at all and still is able to say so many good things. Greg gave us confidence to try a few new things.
Google Launchpad is a great format for ensuring continuous insights, inspiration and food for thought on the growth journey. The recurring opportunity to focus on different aspects of a growing business under the guidance of experienced mentors and together with other founders is very valuable.
The Google for Startups days have been highly useful for us and the different types of sessions has made it relevant across our organisation with team members from different levels and functions participating. I personally especially enjoyed the assigned mentorship sessions.
I believe the Google Sales Academy training was one of the best group sessions we have had. Previous to this the best sessions have been the 1-on-1s. Sales process is very interesting and also complex and less intuitive from my background. I believe it was really great!
A selection of our mentors.
Patrice Lusth
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Experienced fintech executive. He was an early employee at Klarna working with strategy, expansion and financing. Joseph also led strategic business development and expansion at companies such as Benify and Swish before co-founding Saffron and later founding Phoenician Ventures and Hardcorepayments.com.
Joseph Hajj
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Omar Nawaz 🇬🇧
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Mattias Ekman 🇸🇪
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Googler - Africa Onboarding specialist | Google For Start-ups Africa | Africa focused tech-enthusiast
Mitchell Wubben 🇮🇪
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Lai Kim Lim 🇸🇪
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Kate Gray 🇬🇧
Julie Robles 🇫🇷
Arnt Eriksen 🇬🇧
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Hanna Moisander 🇸🇪
Christian Zanders 🇸🇪
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Andreas Drugge 🇸🇪
Anton Ijäs 🇸🇪
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Andrea Vasco 🇬🇧
Looking back at the first launchpad.
The open day was a unique experience when we shared what our partnership with has to offer to our community. Leaders from both Wellstreet and Google presented the plans for the program and Lead Mentors from Google's European pool and from our network gave us a taste of the startups access.
Google for Startups is Google’s initiative to help startups thrive across every corner of the world. It provides the best of Google's products, connections, and best practices to enable startups to build something better. Google is a thought leader when it comes to building and scaling products and businesses using the most advanced technologies. When you join the Google for Startups partner network, you join a community of accelerators, co-working spaces, funds, and startup ecosystem-focused organisations working to help entrepreneurs all around the world.
More than an investor.
