Chrome for iOS Update

Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 94 (94.0.4606.52) for iOS: it'll become available on App Store in the next few hours.

This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Harry Souders

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

 The Dev channel has been updated to 95.0.4638.17 for Windows, Linux and Mac

A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome

Skip the setup— Run code directly from Google Cloud’s documentation

Posted by Abby Carey, Developer Advocate

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Long gone are the days of looking for documentation, finding a how-to guide, and questioning whether the commands and code samples actually work.

Google Cloud recently added a Cloud Shell integration within each and every documentation page.

This new functionality lets you test code in a preprovisioned virtual machine instance while learning about Google Cloud services. Running commands and code from the documentation cuts down on context switching between the documentation and a terminal window to run the commands in a tutorial.

This gif shows how Google Cloud’s documentation uses Cloud Shell, letting you run commands in a quickstart within your Cloud Shell environment.

gif showing how Google Cloud’s documentation uses Cloud Shell, letting you run commands in a quickstart within your Cloud Shell environment.

If you’re new to developing on Google Cloud, this creates a low barrier to entry for trying Google Cloud services and APIs. After activating billing verification with your Google Cloud account, you can test services that have a free tier at no charge, like Pub/Sub and Cloud Vision.

  1. Open a Google Cloud documentation page (like this Pub/Sub quickstart).
  2. Sign into your Google account.
  3. In the top navigation, click Activate Cloud Shell.
  4. Select your project or create one if you don’t already have one. You can select a project by running the gcloud config set project command or by using this drop-down menu:
    image showing how to select a project
  5. Copy, paste, and run your commands.

If you want to test something a bit more adventurous, try to deploy a containerized web application, or get started with BigQuery.

A bit about Cloud Shell

If you’ve been developing on Google Cloud, chances are you’ve already interacted with Cloud Shell in the Cloud Console. Cloud Shell is a ready-to-go, online development and operations environment. It comes preinstalled with common command-line tools, programming languages, and the Cloud SDK.

Just like in the Cloud Console, your Cloud Shell terminal stays open as you navigate the site. As you work through tutorials within Google Cloud’s documentation, the Cloud Shell terminal stays on your screen. This helps with progressing from two connected tutorials, like the Pub/Sub quickstart and setting up a Pub/Sub Proxy.

Having a preprovisioned environment setup by Google eliminates the age old question of “Is my machine the problem?” when you eventually try to run these commands locally.

What about code samples?

While Cloud Shell is useful for managing your Google Cloud resources, it also lets you test code samples. If you’re using Cloud Client Libraries, you can customize and run sample code in the Cloud Shell’s built in code editor: Cloud Shell Editor.

Cloud Shell Editor is Cloud Shell’s built-in, browser-based code editor, powered by the Eclipse Theia IDE platform. To open it, click the Open Editor button from your Cloud Shell terminal:

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Cloud Shell Editor has rich language support and debuggers for Go, Java, .Net, Python, NodeJS and more languages, integrated source control, local emulators for Kubernetes, and more features. With the Cloud Shell Editor open, you can then walk through a client library tutorial like Cloud Vision’s Detect labels guide, running terminal commands and code from one browser tab.

Open up a Google Cloud quickstart and give it a try! This could be a game-changer for your learning experience.

Cloud Shell Editor has rich language support and debuggers for Go, Java, .Net, Python, NodeJS and more languages, integrated source control, local emulators for Kubernetes, and more features. With the Cloud Shell Editor open, you can then walk through a client library tutorial like Cloud Vision’s Detect labels guide, running terminal commands and code from one browser tab.

Open up a Google Cloud quickstart and give it a try! This could be a game-changer for your learning experience.

Improved Google Play Console user management: access requests, permission groups, and more

Posted by Mike Yerou, Software Engineer, Google Play

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User management is an important responsibility for businesses of all sizes. The challenge is to make sure that every team member has the right set of permissions to fulfill their responsibilities, but without overexposing unrelated business data.

Over the years, you’ve asked us for better user and permission management tools in Play Console to help you handle growth efficiently and with confidence. And with the redesigned Google Play Console, we did just that. We decluttered the interface to make it easier to find what you want, and added new features to help you manage your teams easier.


Users and Permissions screen

The users and permissions page has been redesigned to make it easier for admins to manage their teams.


Permission names and descriptions were rewritten to make it easier to understand what you are — and aren’t — allowing users to do. You’ll also see clearer differentiation between account and app-level permissions.

New search, filtering, and batch-editing capabilities allowed you to quickly view and act on a subset of users.

And finally, to make auditing easier, we added a CSV export functionality for users of a developer account.


New access requests

While admins generally set permissions for users, you told us it would be helpful to allow users to request permissions as they figure out what’s required for their workflow. Well, now they can. Admins will still need to approve the request, but empowering users to ask for the exact permissions they need is a significant time-saver for admins.

In Play Console, users will now see a “Request access” button next to each action that is supported but not enabled due to missing permissions. To request the permission, users need to include an explanation of their need to the admin. Admins will be notified via their Inbox and can grant the permission for the specific user and app, reject it once, or reject it permanently to prevent users misusing the feature. Currently, this function is only supported for app permissions.


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Team members can now request access for specific permissions.


New permission groups

When companies reach a certain size, it’s not uncommon for more than one person to have the same role, such as project managers or designers. When that happens, admins may find themselves assigning the same set of permissions over and over again.

To save you time, we recently introduced permission groups. Admins can now create a group with a set of permissions, and when a user is added to that group, they will inherit those permissions automatically. You can even choose to have the permissions in that group expire after a certain date. Users can be in multiple groups, and these groups can have overlapping permissions. We hope you’ll be able to use permission groups to improve your own working practices and encourage greater delegation and ease of user management.

We hope these new changes help you improve admin productivity and help your team get the most out of Play Console. To learn more about managing permissions, check out our Help Center.


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An update on Memory Safety in Chrome

Security is a cat-and-mouse game. As attackers innovate, browsers always have to mount new defenses to stay ahead, and Chrome has invested in ever-stronger multi-process architecture built on sandboxing and site isolation. Combined with fuzzing, these are still our primary lines of defense, but they are reaching their limits, and we can no longer solely rely on this strategy to defeat in-the-wild attacks.

Last year, we showed that more than 70% of our severe security bugs are memory safety problems. That is, mistakes with pointers in the C or C++ languages which cause memory to be misinterpreted.

This sounds like a problem! And, certainly, memory safety is an issue which needs to be taken seriously by the global software engineering community. Yet it’s also an opportunity because many bugs have the same sorts of root-causes, meaning we may be able to squash a high proportion of our bugs in one step.

Chrome has been exploring three broad avenues to seize this opportunity:

  1. Make C++ safer through compile-time checks that pointers are correct.
  2. Make C++ safer through runtime checks that pointers are correct.
  3. Investigating use of a memory safe language for parts of our codebase.

“Compile-time checks” mean that safety is guaranteed during the Chrome build process, before Chrome even gets to your device. “Runtime” means we do checks whilst Chrome is running on your device.

Runtime checks have a performance cost. Checking the correctness of a pointer is an infinitesimal cost in memory and CPU time. But with millions of pointers, it adds up. And since Chrome performance is important to billions of users, many of whom are using low-power mobile devices without much memory, an increase in these checks would result in a slower web.

Ideally we’d choose option 1 - make C++ safer, at compile time. Unfortunately, the language just isn’t designed that way. You can learn more about the investigation we've done in this area in Borrowing Trouble: The Difficulties Of A C++ Borrow-Checker that we're also publishing today.

So, we’re mostly left with options 2 and 3 - make C++ safer (but slower!) or start to use a different language. Chrome Security is experimenting with both of these approaches.

You’ll see major investments in C++ safety solutions - such as MiraclePtr and ABSL/STL hardened modes. In each case, we hope to eliminate a sizable fraction of our exploitable security bugs, but we also expect some performance penalty. For example, MiraclePtr prevents use-after-free bugs by quarantining memory that may still be referenced. On many mobile devices, memory is very precious and it’s hard to spare some for a quarantine. Nevertheless, MiraclePtr stands a chance of eliminating over 50% of the use-after-free bugs in the browser process - an enormous win for Chrome security, right now.

In parallel, we’ll be exploring whether we can use a memory safe language for parts of Chrome in the future. The leading contender is Rust, invented by our friends at Mozilla. This is (largely) compile-time safe; that is, the Rust compiler spots mistakes with pointers before the code even gets to your device, and thus there’s no performance penalty. Yet there are open questions about whether we can make C++ and Rust work well enough together. Even if we started writing new large components in Rust tomorrow, we’d be unlikely to eliminate a significant proportion of security vulnerabilities for many years. And can we make the language boundary clean enough that we can write parts of existing components in Rust? We don’t know yet. We’ve started to land limited, non-user-facing Rust experiments in the Chromium source code tree, but we’re not yet using it in production versions of Chrome - we remain in an experimental phase.

That’s why we’re pursuing both strategies in parallel. Watch this space for updates on our adventures in making C++ safer, and efforts to experiment with a new language in Chrome.

New graphs for metrics over time in Meet Quality Tool

What’s changing 

We’ve added detailed metrics over time for endpoints in Meet Quality Tool, which will help admins perform more advanced troubleshooting. When clicking any endpoint in the meeting timeline, admins can now view charts showing: 
  • Average CPU usage, 
  • Connection delay, 
  • Microphone audio level (what is heard at the user's location), 
  • Received audio level (audio from others), 
  • Sent video packet loss, 
  • Received video packet loss.

When viewing metrics for meetings that are still in progress, you can refresh to see a timeline and metrics with near-real-time values.


Please note: The available metrics for any given endpoint depend on which device and Meet client was used for the connection.


Who’s impacted

Admins


Why it’s important

There are many factors that can affect the quality of a meeting — by providing detailed information and metrics of those factors overtime, admins can more effectively analyze and troubleshoot issues and therefore improve the quality of meetings for their users.


For example, the graph below shows a user who experienced a loss of video during a meeting. 


The admin can further drill down into the metrics and see that the exact time of the video loss corresponds with the loss of the user’s network connection. Using these metrics, the admin was able to quickly diagnose this as a temporary network connection issue.


Getting started


Rollout pace

  • This feature is available now.

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers



“Hey Google, read with Reese’s Book Club”

As a young girl growing up in Venezuela, I had an insatiable appetite for reading. From fictional novels to computer science manuals, you name it, I would read it. Books allowed me to get lost in other worlds, expand my imagination and ultimately inspire me to dream bigger. These days, you can catch me reading with my two young kids or when I take some quiet “me time” on the weekends.


That’s why I’m delighted that Google Assistant has partnered with Reese’s Book Club to offer a hands-free, immersive reading experience on Nest smart speakers, smart displays and Assistant-enabled mobile devices in English-speaking countries across the globe. Assistant users can now discover Reese Witherspoon’s monthly book picks, take a quiz for personalized book recommendations and get exclusive commentary about each book pick from Reese herself.
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Google Assistant has partnered with Reese’s Book Club to offer a hands-free, immersive book curation experience.

To get started, simply say “Hey Google, read with Reese’s Book Club” on your Assistant-enabled device.

You can easily link your account if you’re an existing Reese’s Book Club member —  or sign up with your Google account if you’d like to join. And you can still access this great content even if you aren’t a member: In addition to checking out the current and previous month’s book picks, you can find out why Reese recommends a particular monthly book pick, or hear her personal book reviews. And if you want to read the full book, simply head to Google Play Books to make a purchase. You can also add books to your “book pile” so you can better keep track of what you’d like to read next. 


What I like most about the book club is that each monthly book pick features interesting and diverse narratives from a female perspective. I can’t wait to read with Reese and hope you enjoy it just as much as I do.

Googler Marian Croak is now in the Inventors Hall of Fame

Look around you right now and consider everything that was created by an inventor. The computer you’re reading this article on, the internet necessary to load this article, the electricity that powers the screen, even the coffee maker you used this morning. 


To recognize the incredible contributions of those inventors and the benefits they bring to our everyday life, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has inducted a new group of honorees every year since 1973. In this year’s combined inductee class of 2020/2021, Googler Marian Croak is being honored for her work in advancing VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Technology, which powers the online calls and video chats that have helped businesses and families stay connected through the COVID-19 pandemic. She holds more than 200 patents, and recently was honored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 


These days, Marian leads our Research Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, which is responsible for ensuring Google ​​develops artificial intelligence responsibly and that it has a positive impact. We chatted over Google Meet to find out how plumbers and electricians sparked her interest in science, how her inventions have made life in a pandemic a tiny bit easier for everyone, and what the NIHF honor means to her.  

When was the first time you realized you were interested in technology?


I was probably around 5 or 6. I know that we don’t usually think of things like plumbing or electricity as necessarily technology, but they are. I was very enchanted with plumbers and electricians who would come to our house and fix things. They would be dirty and greasy, but I would love the smell, you know? I felt like, Wow, what a miracle worker! I would follow them around, trying to figure out how they’d fix something. I still do that today! 


So when you have electricians come to your house, you’re still like, “Hey, how did you do that?”

There was a leak once, and I was asking the plumber all these questions, and he asked me to quiet down! Because he needed to listen to the invisible flow of water through the pipes to determine the problem. It was amazing to me how similar it was to network engineering!


You’ve had a few different roles at Google and Alphabet so far. How did you move to where you are today?


When I first came to Google, my first role was bringing the Internet to emerging markets. Laying fiber in Africa, building public Wi-Fi in railroad stations in India and then exploring the landscape in countries like Cuba and countries where there wasn’t an openness yet for the Internet. And that was a fascinating job. It was a merger of technology, policy and governmental affairs, combined with an understanding of communities and regions. 


Then I worked on bringing features and technology and Google’s products to the next billion users. And after I did that for a few years, I joined the Site Reliability Engineering organization to help enhance the performance of Google’s complex, integrated systems. Now my current role is leading the Research Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology group. I'm inspired that my work has the potential to positively impact so many of our users. 


Today you’re being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for your work in advancing VoIP technology. What inspired you to work on VoIP, and can you describe that process of bringing the technology to life?


I have alway been motivated by the desire to change the world, and to do that I try to change the world that I’m currently in. What I mean by that is I work on problems that I am aware of, and that I can tackle within the world that surrounds me. So when I began working on VoIP technology, it was at a time in the late ‘90s when there was a lot of change happening involving the internet. Netscape had put a user-friendly web browser in place and there was a lot of new activity beginning to bubble up all over the online world. 


I was part of a team that was also very interested in doing testing and prototyping of voice communications over the internet. There were some existing technologies but they didn't scale and they were proprietary in nature, so we were thinking of ways we could open it up, make it scalable, make it reliable and be able to support billions of daily calls. We started to work on this but had a lot of doubters telling us that this wouldn’t work, and that no one would ever use this “toy like” technology. And at the time, they were right: It wasn't working and it wasn't reliable. But over time we were able to get it to a point where it started working very well. So much so that eventually the senior leaders within AT&T began to adopt the technology for their core network. It was challenging but an exciting thing for me to do because I like to bring change to things, especially when people doubt that it can happen.


What advice would you give to aspiring inventors? 


Most importantly, don’t give up, and during the process of creation, listen to your critics. I received so much criticism and in many ways it was valid. That type of feedback motivated me to improve the technology, and really address a variety of pain points that I hadn’t necessarily thought of. 


What does being inducted into the NIHF mean to you? 


Well it's humbling, and a great experience. At the time I never thought the work that I was doing was that significant and that it would lead to this, but I’m so I'm very grateful for the recognition.


What does it mean to be a part of a class that sees the first two Black women inducted into the NIHF?


I find that it inspires people when they see someone who looks like themselves on some dimension, and I’m proud to offer that type of representation. People also see that I'm just a normal person like themselves and I think that also inspires them to accomplish their goals. I want people to understand that it may be difficult but that they can overcome obstacles and that it will be so worth it.

Google Fiber starts pulling fiber in West Des Moines

Today, we’re starting to place Google Fiber in the City of West Des Moines’s conduit network. Once we’ve completed the first segment, customers in some areas of the northeast corner of the city will be able to sign up for 1 Gig or 2 Gig internet service. 



If you are interested in getting updates on availability in your neighborhood, sign up on our website (and in the meantime, make sure your house is ready to go, sign up for your free connection to the conduit network at the city’s Plant the Speed website.)

We’re also very excited to be the presenting sponsor of the Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural Raccoon River Rally. We’re looking forward to meeting you there (and seeing your awesome cardboard boats!)

Posted by Sarah Sparks, West Des Moines Customer Acquisition Manager




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Investing in economic equity for Latinos

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Nine years ago, I stood as a volunteer in a room full of Black and Latino startup founders gathered together in the Google San Francisco office to pitch their companies.  This introduction to the startup world was magical—the energy in the room, the powerful ideas and the potential of people who looked and sounded just like me.

For more than a year after that experience, I did everything I could to land a full-time position with the Google for Startups team.  Lucky for me, a role opened up, and ever since I’ve been on a mission to help level the playing field for underrepresented founders around the world.

Fast forward to today and I still get butterflies in my stomach when I meet with founders and learn about their startups. My mission has not changed and I am proud to say we are more determined than ever to continue creating economic opportunities for Latinos.

Today, we are deepening our commitment to racial justice with a $15 million expansion focused on economic equity for Latinos in the U.S.  Our goal is to help Latino entrepreneurs, job seekers and students have equitable access to funding, training and the support they need to succeed in today's economy.

Despite being the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. small business ecosystem, and growing revenues at a faster rate, Latinos continue to struggle to secure funding and capital — the necessary fuel for business owners to grow their companies.  Since 2015, more than $15 billion has been raised by Black and Latino founders, representing only 2.4 percent of the total venture capital despite representing more than 18.7% of the population. When Latino-owned businesses look for financing they remain significantly less likely to be approved for a loan despite reporting strong metrics on key lending criteria.

In an effort to close the opportunity and wealth gap for Latinos, we are unveiling a set of programs designed to open the doors to funding, training for the digital economy and empowering communities.


Introducing the Google for Startups Latino Founders Fund

We are making a $7 million commitment to the Latino startup community to help founders get access to capital needed to scale, and support organizations working to grow a robust community of Latino founders.

The Latino Founders Fund will give top founders cash awards up to $100,000 in non-dilutive funding: critical capital that helps founders retain ownership of their company and avoid debt. We’ve seen the profound impact the role that non-dilutive capital can have to supercharge a founder’s journey. While the capital is important, the fund includes much more than a check. Recipients from the Latino Founders Fund will receive hands-on programming and support from Google, deep mentorship from technical and business experts, as well as a vibrant community of fellow founders. This support will include $1 million in donated ads from Google.org, helping the founders raise brand awareness and reach new customers.

In addition to investments into Latino-led startups, we will allocate $1 million of the fund to support programs and community building organizations in the Latino startup ecosystem. We will expand our support of the Google for Startups partner network, and will also seek out new Latino focused organizations committed to this effort. For example, we’ll be providing scholarships for Latino founders to participate in Founder Gym, a long-time Google for Startups partner who runs a 6-week program training founders to raise funding for their startups.

We know that racial equity and economic opportunity are inextricably linked. This continues and expands on the success and impact of our Black Founders Fund, which welcomed 50 new founders today. In less than a year, recipients of the initial fund have gone on to raise more than $50 million in follow-on capital, and the vast majority of awardees have used those funds to create jobs.


Supporting Latino students and job seekers

Helping Latino students develop the digital skills they need to find and secure internships and jobs that will help them build successful careers is critical to closing the wealth gap. According to the National Skills Coalition, Latino workers are 14 percent of all workers, but account for 35% of those with no digital skills, and 20 percent of those with limited skills. This is why we are expanding the Grow with Google Career Readiness Program in partnership with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) to reach Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).  We’ll provide a $2 million investment for college career services centers across the US to help train 200,000 Latino college students by 2025 in digital skills. Our hope is this program will open the doors to opportunities that didn't exist before for Latino students by providing tools and resources to help them on their journey to an internship or job out of college, which can have a profound impact on their lifetime earning power.

For Latinos already on a career journey or those looking to make a change, we are making a $1 million Google.org grant to the Hispanic Federation to enhance the capacity of Latino-led and Latino-serving nonprofit organizations to provide career-aligned digital skills training to more than 6,000 Latinos over the next year. This is an expansion of our initial 2019 grant when Google.org seed-funded the Hispanic Federation to launch an accelerator to strengthen institutions serving the Latino community with workforce development and digital training programs. Over the last two years, in spite of the pandemic and economic downturn, through our partnership with Hispanic Federation we have reached more than 6,000 Latinos with digital skills training across several states.  This builds on our ongoing commitment to the Latino community, which includes more than $20 million in Google.org grants over the past five years to help create more access to economic opportunity.

For a long time, Latinos have unfairly missed out on economic opportunities. Meeting and supporting Latinos throughout their entrepreneurial, educational and career journey is critical to closing the wealth gap. Today, we are reaffirming our long term commitment to help and empower Latinos reach economic equity.  Our hope is these programs will create clear paths to financial prosperity and even more opportunities in the future.


Invirtiendo en equidad económica para Latinos

Por Daniel Navarro, Google for Startups


Hace nueve años estuve como voluntario en una sala llena de fundadores de startups Afroamericanos y Latinos que se reunieron en nuestra oficina de San Francisco para presentar sus empresas. Esta introducción al mundo de las startups fue mágica: la energía en el salón, las ideas poderosas y el potencial de las personas que se veían y sonaban como yo.

Durante más de un año después de esa experiencia, hice todo lo que pude para conseguir un puesto de tiempo completo con el equipo de Google for Startups. Por suerte mía, se abrió un puesto un año después, y desde entonces se ha convertido en mi misión ayudar a nivelar el campo de juego para los fundadores subrepresentados en todo el mundo.

Hoy en día todavía siento mariposas en mi estómago cuando me reúno con los fundadores y conozco sus nuevas empresas. Mi misión no ha cambiado y me enorgullece decir que estamos más decididos que nunca a seguir creando oportunidades económicas para los Latinos.

Hoy estamos ampliando nuestro compromiso con la justicia racial con una expansión de $15 millones de dólares enfocándonos en equidad económica para los Latinos en los Estados Unidos. Nuestro objetivo es ayudar a los empresarios, los solicitantes de empleo y los estudiantes a tener un acceso equitativo a la financiación, la capacitación y el apoyo que necesitan para tener éxito en la economía actual.

A pesar de ser el segmento de más rápido crecimiento del ecosistema de pequeñas empresas en Estados Unidos, y que sus ingresos aumentan a un ritmo más rápido, los Latinos continúan luchando por asegurar inversión y capital -- el combustible necesario para que los dueños de negocios hagan crecer sus empresas. Desde 2015, los fundadores de empresas Afroamericanos y Latinos han recaudado más de $15 mil millones de dólares, lo que representa solo el 2.4 por ciento del capital de riesgo total a pesar de representar más del 18.7% de la población. Cuando los negocios de propiedad de Latinos buscan financiamiento, es significativamente menos probable que sean aprobadas para un préstamo a pesar de reportar métricas sólidas sobre criterios clave de préstamos.

En un esfuerzo por cerrar la brecha de oportunidades y riqueza para los Latinos, estamos presentando un conjunto de programas diseñados para abrir las puertas al financiamiento, capacitación para la economía digital e invertir en sus comunidades.

Presentamos el Google for Startups Latino Founders Fund

Estamos haciendo un compromiso de $7 millones de dólares con la comunidad de startups Latinos para ayudar a los fundadores obtener acceso al capital necesario para escalar y apoyar a las organizaciones que trabajan para hacer crecer una comunidad sólida de fundadores Latinos.

El Latino Founders Fund otorgará a los mejores fundadores premios en efectivo de hasta $100,000 dólares en fondos no diluibles: capital crítico que ayuda a los fundadores a conservar el control de su negocio y evitar deudas. Hemos visto el profundo impacto que puede tener el capital no dilutivo para impulsar la trayectoria de un fundador. Si bien el capital es importante, el fondo incluye mucho más que un cheque. Los destinatarios del Latino Founders Fund recibirán programación práctica y apoyo de Google, una profunda tutoría de expertos técnicos y comerciales, así como una vibrante comunidad de compañeros fundadores. Este apoyo incluirá $1 millón en anuncios donados de Google.org, lo que ayudará a los fundadores a aumentar reconocimiento de marca y llegar a nuevos clientes.

Además de las inversiones en startups lideradas por Latinos, asignaremos $1 millón de dólares del fondo para apoyar programas y organizaciones de construcción comunitaria en el ecosistema de startups Latinos. Ampliaremos nuestro apoyo a la red de socios de Google for Startups y también buscaremos nuevas organizaciones enfocadas en los Latinos comprometidas con este esfuerzo. Por ejemplo, proporcionaremos becas para que los fundadores Latinos participen en Founder Gym, un socio de Google for Startups desde hace mucho tiempo que dirige un programa de formación de fundadores de 6 semanas para recaudar fondos para sus startups.

Sabemos que la equidad racial y las oportunidades económicas están indisolublemente vinculadas. Esto continúa y amplía el éxito y el impacto de nuestro Black Founders Fund, que hoy dio la bienvenida a 50 nuevos fundadores. En menos de un año, los beneficiarios del fondo inicial han recaudado más de 50 millones de dólares en capital de seguimiento, y la gran mayoría de los adjudicatarios han utilizado esos fondos para crear puestos de trabajo.

Apoyo a estudiantes Latinos y solicitantes de empleo

Ayudar a los estudiantes Latinos a desarrollar las habilidades digitales que necesitan para encontrar y asegurar prácticas y trabajos que los ayudarán a construir carreras exitosas es fundamental para cerrar la brecha de riqueza. Según la National Skills Coalition, los trabajadores Latinos son el 14 por ciento de todos los trabajadores, pero el 35 por ciento de los que no tienen habilidades digitales y el 20 por ciento de aquellos que tienen habilidades limitadas. Es por eso que estamos expandiendo el programa Grow with Google Career Readiness Program en asociación con la Asociación Hispana de Colegios y Universidades (HACU por sus siglas en inglés) para llegar a las Instituciones de Servicio a Hispanos (HSI). Proporcionaremos una inversión de $2 millones de dólares para centros de servicios profesionales universitarios en los Estados Unidos para ayudar a capacitar a 200,000 estudiantes universitarios Latinos para el 2025 en habilidades digitales. Nuestra esperanza es que este programa abra las puertas a oportunidades que no existían antes para los estudiantes Latinos al brindarles herramientas y recursos para ayudarlos en su camino hacia una práctica o un trabajo después de la universidad, lo que puede tener un impacto profundo en sus ingresos de por vida.

Para los Latinos que ya están en su trayecto profesional o para aquellos que buscan hacer un cambio, estamos otorgando una subvención de $1 millón de dólares a la Federación Hispana para mejorar la capacidad de las organizaciones sin fines de lucro lideradas por Latinos y que sirven a Latinos para brindar capacitación en habilidades digitales alineadas con carreras a más de 6,000 Latinos durante el próximo año. Esta es una expansión de nuestra subvención inicial del 2019 cuando Google.org financió la Federación Hispanapara lanzar un acelerador para fortalecer las instituciones que sirven a la comunidad Latina con programas de capacitación digital y desarrollo de la fuerza laboral. Durante los últimos dos años, a pesar de la pandemia y la recesión económica, a través de nuestra asociación con la Federación Hispana hemos llegado a más de 6,000 Latinos con capacitación en habilidades digitales en varios estados. Esto se basa en nuestro compromiso continuo con la comunidad latina, que incluye más de $20 millones de dólares en subvenciones de Google.org durante los últimos cinco años para ayudar a crear más acceso a oportunidades económicas.

Durante mucho tiempo, los Latinos se han perdido injustamente de oportunidades económicas. Conocer y apoyar a los Latinos a lo largo de su trayectoria empresarial, educativa y profesional es fundamental para cerrar la brecha de riqueza. Hoy, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso a largo plazo de ayudar y empoderar a los Latinos a alcanzar la equidad económica. Nuestra esperanza es que estos programas creen caminos claros hacia la prosperidad financiera e incluso más oportunidades en el futuro.