DFC × Google · Google for Startups Candidate

Google-native,
end to end.

DFC didn't add Google Cloud to its stack — it was born on it. Auth, data, storage, hosting, compute, and analytics all run on Google, in Australia, with data residency by design.

The Google story

The whole platform, one cloud

Firebase Core

LIVE

Auth, Firestore, Storage, Hosting
37 Gen2 Cloud Functions deployed
Including the full PPV commerce path

Cloud Run

LIVE

Three services, scale-to-zero by design
GPU-allocated encoding workloads
australia-southeast1 — data residency

Data & AI

READY

BigQuery-ready analytics pipeline
Secret Manager for every credential
Gemini-assisted safety scoring on the roadmap

The ask

What we're asking Google for

Google for Startups Cloud Program — credits that keep an all-Google platform on Google

A solo, self-taught Australian founder built this entire platform on Google's stack. Startup credits fund the launch-phase compute and GPU encoding for live events — and make DFC a case study in founder velocity on Google Cloud. Technical walkthrough available on request.

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