The Rice AI Venture Accelerator (RAVA), which aims to promote early-stage AI innovation and commercialization, is being launched in collaboration with Google Public Sector and Rice University. With the goal of advancing AI-powered solutions to urgent industry concerns, this partnership allows RAVA to link AI-first startups with top companies in the fields of healthcare, energy, transportation, and the public sector.
The Rice AI Venture Accelerator team recognises the vital need to strike a balance between security and innovation pace in an increasingly AI-driven society. By using the intelligence, security, and ease of use of Google Cloud’s information strategy to their startup, RAVA hopes to establish an ecosystem where founders can be both fearless and accountable.
Participating startups will gain direct access to Google Cloud’s cloud computing, sandbox services, and Artificial Intelligence expertise through this partnership. AI-first firms will be able to quickly prototype, scale more quickly, and save money with Google Cloud’s full-stack AI, data, and security sandbox environment.
The AI-optimized sandbox will include the following capabilities
- AI
- Automated environment provisioning and administration for sectors like as public sector, healthcare, energy, and transportation. These environments will give users access to fully managed services including Healthcare Data Engine, Google Earth Engine, and Google Maps, as well as links to Google Cloud’s unique data sets like AlphaFold.
- AI-powered accelerators for analytics, information retrieval, and machine learning training, such as Graphical Process Units (GPUs) and Google Cloud’s specially designed Arm-based processors (Axion) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
- Google Vertex AI Platform offers a multi-agentic AI framework and a single development platform that contains 160+ first-party (Gemini, Imagen 3) and third-party (Gemma) foundation models in addition to Agent Builder.
- Analytics & Data
- Apigee has modernised API management, enabling the development, administration, and security of APIs for any scale, use case, or environment.
- Looker allows for real-time exploration and sharing of business and embedded analytics, while BigQuery provides access to hundreds of public datasets from many industries.
- Safety
- Google Security Command Centre, the first multi-cloud security solution in the industry, offers Sensitive Data Protection and Model Armour to shield LLM models and data sources against jailbreak attempts, rapid injections, and unauthorised exposure.
In order to maximise their AI literacy and industry uptake, Google Public Sector will also offer specialised training to Rice AI Venture Accelerator startups and supporting teams.
- Google Security Command Centre, the first multi-cloud security solution in the industry, offers Sensitive Data Protection and Model Armour to shield LLM models and data sources against jailbreak attempts, rapid injections, and unauthorised exposure.
It is excited to announce the launch of the Rice AI Venture Accelerator in partnership with Google Public Sector. Its goal is to turn innovative research into practical applications, and partnership builds on Rice’s decades-long tradition of innovation. It is building an ecosystem with Rice AI Venture Accelerator that will provide business executives access to the newest AI-powered technologies.
Google Public Sector is thrilled to be working with RAVA to create an AI Innovation Hub that will help businesses address the most difficult problems in a variety of industries and spur innovation. Its partnership aims to assist entrepreneurs in doing more with less and successfully adjusting to quickly evolving circumstances.
Rice AI Venture Accelerator
Granting top private and public sector companies exclusive access to state-of-the-art early-stage AI technology and cutting-edge AI research and development
The goal of the Rice AI Venture Accelerator Program (RAVA), which is led by Google and Rice University, is to promote early-stage AI innovation and commercialization in top international companies.
By offering innovative and scalable early-stage AI technology solutions, RAVA aims to support AI/ML commercialisation, acceptance, and R&D prospects for its partners’ AI innovation and product teams. Ten top Fortune 500 and public sector companies dedicated to AI innovation and adoption are brought together by RAVA.
RAVA partners are able to access
- Google’s dominance in cloud and computing services, ML/AI research and resources, and sandbox services, including access to their Rapid Innovation Team, which focusses on cybersecurity, AI, and GPU optimisation.
- Access to Houston’s quickly expanding innovation ecosystem and Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute, as well as the university’s top AI academics and their most recent AI research and expertise.
- When it comes to finding and choosing the most promising early-stage AI firms, Non-Sibi Ventures excels.