Google removes the language of “an active actress” from its grant site
A few weeks later, Google said The review will Its diversity programs and their stock and integration programs, the Google FORTUPS Founding website is filled with changes. The most prominent of which is Google is now using the present tense in the past to describe all its boxes programs for the founders of the actress an incomplete representation.
This is a change that happened after December, according to the Internet archives. The site currently says that there are zero zero programs available.
Google founders were launched in 2020 to provide cash grants and guidance and support products for startups with incomplete founders, including women and those of African origin and Latin.
The site says it gave more than $ 50 million to support more than 600 founders. Regardless of the capital, the founders received the guidance and support of the product, such as credits to Google Cloud.
But the grant scene – especially with regard to programs targeting minorities – may have changed dramatically since 2020. Some technology founders who spoke with them have wondered about what could happen for grant programs, such as the Google Startups Fund, amid fierce political and legal attacks on any program called “Dei”.
The programs listed as “previous” funds include this site now the Fund of the Foundation for Women, the Latin Founders Fund, the Ukraine Support Fund, the Black Foundation Fund and the Black Founders Fund.
In addition, the site says that “zero” grant programs are currently available in any region, although the programs that train their founders on AI products, US -for -emerging companies in some industries (energy and climate) accept requests.
It is not clear which of these programs has ended officially, has been suspended, or is restructured in other ways. Google’s response was when he was asked about her condition mysterious, but it is implicitly converting a concentration away from the founders of the actress, an incomplete representation and artificial intelligence.
“We have not yet opened applications in the United States to Google to obtain the money of startups in 2025. Google supports startups for all the prior dusts of the founders’ funds in our graduate community. In 2025, we will invest in startups that focus on artificial intelligence in the United States and we will share more details at a later time.”
Google retracts another language
Techcrunch has noticed other changes in the language of the web pages of this program.
In December specifically She stated that the grants “provided more than $ 50 million to support the founders, an incomplete representative,” while today, today, today, today, The word “actress is incomplete” It was removed.
and The archive page From January 21, the Google used to describe the purpose of the program is “financial support for societies acting” and “to help in the founders of missing and at risk to build their business and develop their business.”
currently, Google says the program It is “financial support for innovators” and practical support “to help the founders build and develop their business.
Google did not respond to our request to comment on changing the language on the site.
Last month, Google And other technology giantsLike Meta and Amazon, it has started controlling the DEI formulation and its activities where the Trump administration puts pressure on the public and private sector to decline such programs. Google I announced earlier this month It will not have diversity goals and It also removed a male From Dei in its annual file 10-k.
Reuters I mentioned this week The companies that publicly distanced themselves about Dei have done the opposite separately, and revealed the exact balance facing companies today because they seek to avoid the legal challenges Dei.
Meanwhile, the United States Granting Programs, which aimed at specific segments of the representative societies, have been attacked for a period of time. The box, which does not know fear, was famous for settling a lawsuit for the granting program for the founders of black women and The program was closed in September. PayPal is also Currently, he is prosecuted Its commitment to granting black and Latin founders over allegations that they are distinguished against other races.
