Four Indian Startups To Join Google for its Inaugural AI for the Planet Accelerator

Google today announced the induction of four Indian startups, Terrastack, Varaha Climate, Farmers for Forests and Climitra Carbon, for the inaugural Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet (APAC) initiative. These startups will be joining a cohort of 16 organisations from across Asia-Pacific working to address urgent environmental challenges using artificial intelligence.

Over the next three months, these organizations will receive access to the latest Google AI stack, tailored technical support and expert mentorship to scale their critical solutions for a more sustainable future. As startups, nonprofits and researchers step up to build climate resilience across the region, this program will help them advance their ideas using frontier AI models to tackle urgent environmental challenges.

The selection of these organizations reinforces Google’s broader support for homegrown climate innovation in India, ensuring that the country’s technological and AI leadership drives sustainable, inclusive growth. The four Indian startups selected for the inaugural cohort are applying AI, satellite intelligence, remote sensing and drones to challenges ranging from sustainable agriculture and agroforestry to carbon removal and biodiversity.

Terrastack is combining satellite and agronomic data to provide plot-level land intelligence for smallholder farmers. The company is part of the programme’s sustainable agriculture track, using data and AI to help make agricultural decision-making more precise and accessible. Varaha Climate is empowering smallholder farmers to earn carbon credits by verifying regenerative agriculture and carbon removal using remote sensing and AI.

Its work forms part of the programme’s focus on scaling climate and carbon solutions. Farmers for Forests is using AI-powered drones to turn smallholder agroforestry into measurable carbon and biodiversity action at scale, bringing technology to the measurement and monitoring needed to expand nature-based climate solutions. Climitra Carbon is deploying Geo-AI to verify the removal of invasive species and their conversion into biochar, linking land restoration with scalable carbon solutions.