CHENNAI: Microsoft accelerator programme, Summer’17 Cohort has selected 14 start-ups for providing mentorship and expertise, technology and infrastructure support, apart from giving access to investors and customers. ONDRILA S SARKAR lists them:
Syscloud
Vijay Krishna, Founder and CEO
Headquartered in New York with a development centre in Chennai, SysCloud is a cloud security platform to protect your financial, customer, sales and IP data from insider theft, breaches and outside attacks.
vPhrase
Neerav Parekh, Founder and CEO
Mumbai-based vPhrase helps companies make their reports easier
to understand by explaining the insights in words, using AI. Phrazor, the company’s patent-pending platform, analyses data, derives insights and communicates them in words, in multiple languages.
Acebot.ai
Ravindra Krishnappa
CEO & Co-founder
US-registered Acebot runs from Bengaluru, with a presence in Silicon Valley. It is an intelligent enterprise chatbot solution that leverages conversational UI (chat platforms) to enable collaboration, team productivity and data collation.
Zenatix
Rahul Bhalla
CEO & Co-founder
Gurgaon-based Zenatix is a data-driven energy efficiency company delivering upto 30% reduction in electricity consumption to retail chains and banks using IoT. ‘Let’s start saving the planet, starting with your electricity bill’ goes the company’s motto.
Heckyl
Mukund Mudras, Co-founder
Mumbai-based Heckyl is a big data-based analytical platform for investors, traders and researchers in the financial industry. It provides real time news and data analytics to brokerage firms, short term traders, investors and fund managers.
Tricog
Charit Bhograj, Founder and CEO
Founded in 2015, Bengaluru-based Tricog is an AI startup that connects heart patients with doctors. Tricog ECG devices strategically located at local clinics help doctors detect heart complications within minutes of the patient’s arrival.
Lavelle Networks
Shyamal Kumar, CEO
Bengaluru-based Lavelle Networks is into building enterprise data networking platforms that enable high speed, flexible and safe usage of cloud applications.
QuestionPro
Vivek Bhaskaran, Founder and CEO
Seattle-based QuestionPro, which has an office in Pune provides web-based survey software to analyse customer satisfaction, market research and employee satisfaction.
LetsTransport
Sudarshan Ravi
Co-founder
Bengaluru-based LetsTransport is a logistics tech start-up that offers value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, 24x7 service, etc, all at transparent and economical rates.
FirstHive
Aditya Bhamidipaty
Founder and CEO
Mumbai-based FirstHive is a cross-channel B2C marketing platform that gives businesses the power to engage their customers with their brands across multiple touch points.
Active.ai
Ravishankar, CEO
Founded in 2016, Bengaluru-based Active.ai is a full-stack, enterprise AI platform that offers smart conversational banking for banks and financial services companies.
Witty Parrot
Anil Jwalanna, Founder and CEO
Bengaluru-based Witty Parrot is a smart knowledge automation, collaboration and communication platform for sales, marketing, support and HR verticals. It can be used as a single repository to keep all the regulatory compliance information up to date from various agencies.
SigTuple
Apurv Anand
Co-founder and CTO
Bengaluru-based SigTuple provides machine learning-based solutions for detection of anomalies in medical testing and improves accuracy in disease diagnosis.
Karomi
Vilva Natarajan, CEO
Chennai-based Karomi manages regulatory compliance and speedy approval of packaging artworks for Pharma and FMCG companies and helps get their products reach the market faster.