Google partners Odisha to groom startups, 250 ventures identified

State aims to emerge as one of the country's top three startup hubs by 2020, facilitate at least 1,000 enterprises over next five years

Internet giant Google and the Odisha government are exploring ways to collaborate for taking startups in the state to the next level.

“We are in discussion with Google for collaborations under the different programmes of the internet giant. Google Startup programme has partnership with three states- Karnataka, Goa and Telangana where they are supporting startups. We are exploring similar partnership with Google”, said a government official.

Google, under its Cloud Startup Program, will provide free credits to early stage companies so that the start-ups can focus on building a business and let Google take the responsibility of scaling and securing their infrastructure.