Monday, 13 January 2020

Microsoft’s ‘Highway to a Hundred Unicorns’ selects 54 startups from Tier 2 cities


  • Top 3 ‘Emerge-X’ winners from each of the five states will receive access to year-long mentorship program and two-day founder bootcamp
  • Fifth edition of Highway to a Hundred Unicorns hosted at Hyderabad in collaboration with Government of Telangana
  • Telangana Emerge X Winners with (L-R) Lathika Pai - Country Head, Microsoft for Startups, MENA & SAARCJayesh Ranjan - IAS Principal Secretary to Government of Telangana, Industries & Commerce (I&C) Dept., & Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Dept., Gayle Sheppard - Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Data and Rajiv Kumar - MD, Microsoft IDC and Corporate Vice President, Electronics & Devices, India 
    Hyderabad, January 13, 2020: In its efforts to enable the startup ecosystem in Tier 2 cities across the country, Microsoft’s ‘Highway to a Hundred Unicorns’ has selected 54 startups from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Kerala and Telangana. The top tech startups selected through ‘Emerge-X’ win Azure credits and a host of business and tech benefits. The competition has received over 530 applications and the top three startups from each state gain access to a year-long mentorship program and a two-day founder bootcamp.
    Highway to a Hundred Unicorns, the Microsoft for Startups initiative, works closely with local governments to strengthen the startup ecosystem in each state. The fifth edition of the outreach program was hosted at Hyderabad in association with the Government of Telangana. More than 150 innovators and entrepreneurs engaged with Microsoft experts, industry stalwarts and ecosystem stakeholders, including members of the state government.
    More than 650 startups that have participated in the five events have benefited from the mentorship and guidance through technology workshops on Azure, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Over 75 ecosystem players including the Global Entrepreneurship Network, TiE, Headstart, NASSCOM, and Startup Grind as well as prominent investors, entrepreneurs and executives in the national startup ecosystem have actively engaged with the innovators at each of the locations. Wholesalebox and Rapidor are among the participating startups in the program that have received recent fresh funding from one of the participating investors.
    Lathika Pai, Country Head, Microsoft for Startups - MENA and SAARC said, “The entrepreneurial energy of startups is rising well beyond the known metropolitan hubs and is remarkably high in Tier 2 cities, despite the obvious challenges. Through Highway to a Hundred Unicorns, we’ve been able to reach some highly promising innovators from each of the five states. In the next phase of our journey, we look forward to engaging with more startups and accelerating their growth and providing them with Microsoft’s platform to go global.”
    Microsoft for Startups is committed to helping entrepreneurs build and scale their companies, by leveraging the cloud platform, enterprise sales team and partner ecosystem. Through its cutting edge technology expertise, strong focus on Microsoft for Startups, a growing partner ecosystem, and the venture fund M12Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help startups evolve from being market ready to enterprise ready.
    Emerge X Winners:
    Sl. No.
    Org Name
    Founder Name
    Maharashtra
    1
    Spider G
    Ashwani Rathore
    2
    Greenovative Energy
    Vinit Kulkarni
    3
    BharatAgri
    Sai Gole
    4
    Innoctive
    Deepesh Kuruppath
    5
    IOPhysics Systems
    Ashish Gawali
    6
    Tilt
    Deepak VS
    7
    Swipez
    Shuhaid Lambe
    8
    NeuroTags
    Abhishek Agrawal
    9
    ScifferAnalytics
    Karan Kabra
    10
    Webcuits Technologies
    Rahul Dupare
    11
    Agile Connects
    Anand Aurangabadkar
    Kerala
    12
    ACELR Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd. (Rapidor)
    Thomson Skariah Thayil
    13
    Genrobotic Innovations Private Limited
    Vimal Govind
    14
    CLAP Research Private Ltf
    Anoop Ambika
    15
    XShip Design and Analytics Private Limited
    Sandith Thandasherry
    16
    Survey Sparrow Private Limited
    Shihab Muhammed
    17
    Concept Realization and IT Solutions P Ltd
    Anand Subhash
    18
    Tranzmeo IT Solutions Private Limited
    Safil Sunny
    19
    BillionLives Business Initiatives Pvt Ltd.
    John Santosh
    20
    Clootrack Software Labs Private Limited
    Shameel Abdulla
    21
    Instio Experiences Pvt Ltd
    Girish Prabhu
    22
    AI Aeronautics
    Vishnu V Vath
    23
    Cavalier Wireless Inc.
    Ajit Thomas
    Gujarat
    24
    Locanix
    Ruchit Surati
    25
    Byte Prophecy
    Mrugank Parikh
    26
    Matrubharti
    Mahendra Sharma
    27
    Oizom
    Jainam Mehta
    28
    Jobsquare Network Private Limited
    Ishit Jethwa
    29
    Plexus MD
    Rohan Desai
    30
    Synersense PVT LTD
    Gunjan Patel
    31
    Gridle.one
    Yash Shah
    32
    Reelo Technologies
    Prit Sanghvi
    33
    EroNkan Technologies
    Ketan Parekh
    34
    AlmaShines
    Kapil Dev Advani
    Rajasthan
    35
    Wholesalebox
    Rohit Dangayach
    36
    Bix42
    Jagdish Ghuge
    37
    Dealshare
    Aditi Sharma
    38
    Secure Learning
    Yogesh Kaushik
    39
    Hyrefox
    Aditya Kedia
    40
    Rarome
    Virendra Maloo
    41
    mPass
    Ankit Tiwari
    42
    mHeal
    Divyansh Srivastava
    43
    Tinkerly
    Sharad Bansal
    44
    medcords
    Nikhil Baheti
    Telangana
    45
    Eyedentify Systems Private Limited
    Dhushyanth Dachiraju
    46
    WeSecureApp
    Venu Rao 
    47
    EasyCommute
    Mayank Chawla
    48
    SignalX Pvt. Ltd.
    Govind Balachandran
    49
    NaPanta
    Naveen Kumar V
    50
    EHNOTE
    Amaranatha Reddy
    51
    Onward AssIst
    Dinesh Koka
    52
    Yoryo Technologies Private Limited
    Amardeep Chougale
    53
    Enmovil Solutions Private Limited
    Ravi Bulusu
    54
    NanoHealth
    Manish Ranjan
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