BEIJING, Jan. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing held a Demo Day for its fifth cohort,
which included 15 startups presenting their companies to a group of
over 200 venture capitalists, media and industry professionals, At
the event, Microsoft Ventures also announced the succeeding
cohort.
Vanessa Gao, CEO in Residence of
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing said, "This is the best era for
business creation. Government support, as well as encouragement
from society, provides entrepreneurs with the resources and respect
they need to pave the way towards realizing their dreams. Over the
past 30 months, we have had the honor of working alongside the most
outstanding entrepreneurial teams and helping to facilitate their
rapid development."
Since its launch in China in
July 2012, Microsoft Ventures
Accelerator in Beijing has won the
title of "Best Incubator in China"
for two consecutive years and has formed strategic cooperation with
many industry leaders to help start-ups connect and cooperate with
clients. Among the 85 companies that have graduated from the
program, more than 90% have already obtained a new round of
financing, with a total valuation of over RMB 10 billion. Six enterprises have been
acquired and a big data company has landed on Shenzhen Stock
Market's New Third Board.
Over the past two and a half years, Microsoft Ventures
Accelerator in Beijing has been
committed to providing the most professional entrepreneurship
services. Once an entrepreneurial team has been selected, all
resources are provided for free. With the implementation of the
lifelong alumni system, startups can enjoy all the rights and
interests of the alumni network, so they will continue to receive
support from the company after six months of incubation. In
addition, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator has established a
strategic partnership with Hong
Kong and Taiwan to help
local startups realize their entrepreneurial dreams.
In the recruitment of the 6th class startups, 700+
entrepreneurial teams applied and 21 teams were successfully
selected. We look forward to working together to help these
startups succeed as they grow their business. These include:
- Singularity Machine Intelligence extends the search
function from the Internet into mobile APPs to put millions of APPs
in use once they are searched.
- Idotools is committed to providing the most convenient
and practical mobile phone tools for users.
- iYunxue Age is dedicated to developing and operating
online primary and secondary school education products to build
Mofangge, the No. 1 brand for online question databases and
interactive community for K12 in China.
- Youtejie is a product team of Rizhiyi making
search analysis for professional and complex logs in
enterprise information systems into simple and useful search
engines.
- Yuexiang Trend is devoted to biosensing and producing
wearable technologies to create "Liangliang," a watch for daily
physical examination that continuously and automatically measures
multiple vital signs;
- Skylark Technology provides the next-generation cloud
platform with high-density and dynamic computing capacity.
- Tenxor, an eye health big data team, provides the first
self-care monitoring devices in the world and a remote consultation
service.
- Zhichidata applies big data and natural language
processing in customer services to transform them from less
cost-effective to highly profitable services.
- Malong Technology is committed to adopting the world's
leading deep learning and computer vision technologies to equip
artificial intelligence with fashion tastes.
- Meicai is a mobile e-vendor of agricultural products,
which serves tens of thousands of small and medium-sized
restaurants in China.
- Ehang is a company that has built the
easiest-control intelligent, unmanned aerial vehicle in the world,
making the dream of flying come true for everyone.
- Cogtu Technologies, an advertising company, is the
creator of native advertisements embedded in images, combining
image-recognition, semantic analysis and cognitive analysis
technologies in artificial intelligence.
- Yourstech created APICloud, a one-stop application
development platform combining cloud and end functions, redefining
mobile app development with the perspective of Internet.
- Goudaifu uses intelligent devices to provide online
health consultation and offline treatment services for pets.
- Deetin, is a data and artificial intelligence center
focused on creating intelligent routers designed specifically for
the mobile age to build smart homes in the future.
- ITjuzi is dedicated to building a database for startups
and investments in the primary market, promoting entrepreneurship
and investment with data and providing services on the enterprise
level.
- Louli is a life-service platform focused on building as
basic units and the community as its central infrastructure.
- Yida Technologies creates an O2O platform for
global designers in the mode of "mashup + experts."
- Kemaiduo is a social and personal CRM platform that
helps sales personnel develop personal connections and efficiently
improve business performance.
- EulerSpace is a team for intelligent robot platforms
that combine a robot control system with cloud computing
technology.
- Aidmics is a biotechnology team from Taiwan dedicated to reproduction optimization
and building mobile and connected intelligent sperm testing devices
and services.
For more information on Microsoft Venture Accelerators in
Beijing, please visit:
http://www.microsoftventures.com/Accelerators/Beijing.aspx
About Microsoft Ventures
Microsoft Ventures is a
global initiative to help entrepreneurs build great companies.
Working with startups at every stage of maturity, the initiative
provides tools, resources and expertise to help startups succeed.
Visit Microsoft Ventures at www.microsoftventures.com to
learn more about how Microsoft is helping the next generation of
smart companies take flight.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq
"MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and
solutions that help people and businesses realize their full
potential.
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