Pitney Bowes Invites Startups in India to Apply for the 2017 Accelerator Program
May 16 2017 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes has Successfully Incubated 18
Startups
Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, today
invites startups in India to apply for the next round of the Pitney
Bowes Accelerator Program. The program focuses on startups that
leverage software for customer information management, mobile, data
analytics, location-based services, ecommerce management and
machine learning.
Pitney Bowes will be accepting applications for the Accelerator
Program until 30 June 2017. Shortlisted start-ups will be notified
by the first week of July and invited to present before a jury.
Selected startups for the program will be announced in August
2017.
Over the last three years, Pitney Bowes has incubated 18
startups in India. The portfolio of emerging businesses includes
location-based services, ecommerce management, data analytics,
Artificial Intelligence, digital healthcare, advertising technology
and machine learning. Past program participants include WedoSky
(Drone-based startup with a mapping and analytics platform),
niKi.AI (Artificial Intelligence powered Chat Interface), MediMojo
(a digital health platform for simplifying healthcare); and
Sponsifyme (A real-time geo-location-based marketing platform for
offline businesses).
“Each year, we see applications from more diverse and innovative
startups. They represent development work on next-generation
technologies across location, commerce and data analytics,” said
Manish Choudhary, Senior Vice President, Global Innovation and
Managing Director, India Operations, Pitney Bowes Inc. “Innovation
is at the heart of everything we do at Pitney Bowes, and we look
forward to working with our next round of startups to develop
physical and digital solutions that drive commerce globally.”
Pitney Bowes is looking for dynamic innovative entrepreneurs who
are building businesses for India and global markets, primarily in
the following areas:
- Global ecommerce (logistics, shipping
management, data analytics)
- Location-based ad-tech
- Location-based platform (services,
advertising, analytics, enterprise apps, GIS-enabled systems,
Indoor navigation and other spatial analysis use cases)
- Big data, mobile analytics and machine
learning
- Data integration, data quality and
master data management
- Industry-specific solutions or
applications related to all of the above
As part of the program, startups will have limited free access
to Pitney Bowes’ software Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
and data for the duration of the program. The program provides
training, technical and business guidance, and mentoring by Pitney
Bowes’ engineering and innovation leaders and software industry
experts. Pitney Bowes continues its partnership with Microsoft, and
selected startups will have access to up to USD $9,000 Microsoft
Azure Cloud Credits over 12 months and five Microsoft Visual Studio
subscriptions for one year. They will also have access to a free
architectural review and technical mentoring session from Microsoft
to help with onboarding.
Pitney Bowes has also formed a strategic alliance with
DigitalOcean, the world’s second largest cloud computing platform
focused on simplifying cloud infrastructure for software
developers. Startups will have access to Cloud credits for 12
months and access to virtual office hours with the DigitalOcean
team for consulting on platform and architecture best
practices.
For more information on the Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program,
please visit http://accelerator.pitneybowes.com/, or email
indiaaccelerator@pb.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company powering
billions of transactions – physical and digital – in the connected
and borderless world of commerce. Clients around the world,
including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on products,
solutions, services and data from Pitney Bowes in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping, mailing, and global ecommerce. And with the
innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients can access the
broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs to drive
commerce. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes, the
Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com
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