Google AI Day for Startups explores how early-stage start-ups can build smarter with AI

NSRCEL welcomed more than 130 founders, tech builders and AI enthusiasts as part of the Google AI Day for Startups, in a bid to explore how early-stage start-ups can build smarter with AI.

The panel on: ‘AI’s Next Wave: Agents, Multimodal & Monetization’ explored real use-cases and go-to-market strategies for start-ups building with AI – focusing on what works, what does not, and what is next. The panel featured Sanjay Palsamudram, Mentor, NSRCEL, Siddhant Panda, Investor & Advisor, Soket AI Labs and Vinayak Jhunjhunwala, Co-founder, Superjoin.ai.

This was followed by a deep-dive session with Praful Mehrotra, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud, that navigated through tools like Vertex AI, Gemini 2.5, Veo, Gemma 3.0 and Imagen, and helped attendees map the right AI stack to their product vision.

The hands-on session on Codelabs with Harsh Dattani, Program Manager, Google and Anubhav Singh, Google Developer Expert, gave builders the tools and know-how to start integrating AI from Day One.

Start-ups today not only need to know what AI can do, they also need comprehensive information on how to use it well, and NSRCEL aimed to achieve this very objective through the event.