Title: Corporate Run Startup Accelerators By Line: Cases across sectors in India
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1 Infosys Innovation Fund
Infosys Helps early stage startups through strategic partner- ships
2015 Non-
residential , Bangalore
1. Early stage startups - Series A or B, occasion- ally seed with a product-market fit 2. Focus areas -
Machine Intelli- gence, Infrastruc- ture and Cloud, Collaboration and Design, Big Data and Analytics, New Business Models etc.
Early-stage capi- tal, mentorship, product valida- tion, customer in- troductions and go-to-market scale.
WHOOP, CloudEndure, ideaForge, Stellaris Venture Partners, UNSILO, TidalScale
Strategic partnership
innova- tionfund@i nfosys.co m
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2 LaunchPad Cisco To de-
velop an ecosys- tem of compa- nies, startups and part- ners in order to harness the full potential of digital- isation.
2016 Cisco
Campus, Bangalore
1. Mid-to-late stage technology and technology-ena- bled B2B/B2B2C startups.
2. Focus areas - Networking and Infrastructure, Collaboration, Security, IoT, Video, Analytics, Cloud, Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Natural Language Pro- cessing, Last Mile Connectivity etc.
Co-working space, work- shops, speaker sessions, mentor- ship program and investor/industry connects.
Startups also have access to industry leading Cisco technology platforms in Wire- less/Mobility, IoT, Collaboration, Se- curity, Network- ing, and Cloud.
Algo Engines, Teslon, Astrome, Pickcel, Dataglen, Appknox, MishiPay
4 months co- hort-based
cisco- launchpad
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3 DNA Bosch Discover,
Nurture and Align - to build and strengthe n new solutions with Bosch’s compo- nents, technol- ogy plat- forms and busi- ness so- lutions.
2016 Bangalore For startups and so- cial enterprises work- ing for the BoP seg- ment:
1. Focus areas: Aer- ospace, Agritech, Mobility, Energy, Medtech or Smart Cities.
2. Building solutions in enabling tech- nology areas :IoT, Deep learn- ing, Analytics, Cloud, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Vir- tual/ Augmented Reality and Block chain.
3. Building new so- lutions with BOSCH’s compo- nents and tech- nology platforms.
Incubation spaces, mentor- ship in product design, PR and strategy.
BOSCH’s ecosys- tem of experts, resources, tech- nology and chan- nel partners.
Akasa Labs, Yostra, Aerx- Labs, Autov- rse, Cosine Labs, Titan Bots
18 weeks co- hort based
http://www .boschac- celera- tor.in/
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4 GenNext Hub Reliance In- dustries and Microsoft Acceletor
To help startups scale from a Minimum Viable Product to a Mini- mum Vi- able Com- pany
2014 Mumbai 1. Registered tech- nology startups in Retail, Telecom, Mobile Apps, FinTech, Healthcare, Cloud Services, Media, IoT and SME solutions
Funding options in the early part of the program.
Plug and play of- fice space.
Access to tech- nical and busi- ness resources and mentorship from Microsoft Ventures and Biz- Spark.
Engagement with RIL business units.
Mobiotics, Dat- tus, Megdap, VDeliver, Curefy, En- guru, Health Vectors
4 months co- hort-based
info@gen- nexthub.co m
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5 Innovate MK Mahindra Tech, Li- vidia Ltd.
and The Cube
An eco- system to en- courage tech en- trepre- neurship in the Milton Keynes area in the UK
2017 Milton Keynes, UK
Tech startups 5 days/week ac- cess to resident entrepreneurs
Mentor and founder commu- nity access
Connectivity to like-minded pro- fessionals
Access to innova- tion facilities
FatPencil, Scholics, crowd, CAPE, Nth Dimension
Monthly paid packages - separate for residential and non-resi- dential sup- port
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6 BizLab Airbus Global
aero- space accelera- tor for startups and intra- prenuers
2015 Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany) and Ban- galore (In- dia)
Startups in the aero- nautical industry with a focus on digitalisa- tion, data processing, communication net- works, robotics etc.
BizLab mentor- ship and coach- ing (tech, legal, fi- nance, marketing) Office Space
<$5000 free credit of Amazon Web Services
Prototyping and Test Facilities
Demo Day with Airbus partners, venture capitalists and customers
Earth2Orbit, eFlight, Ac- celo, Neewee, Stelae Tech- nologies, Inno- vative Bina- ries, SYm- bosim
6 months https://ww w.airbus- bizlab.com /ap- ply/2017
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7 YES Fintech YES BANK Platform for FinTech startups to co-cre- ate inno- vative solutions
2017 Mumbai and Hy- derabad
1. Technology based startups with an MVP and growing customer base 2. Key focus areas:
payments, lending, trade finance and forex solutions, wealth manage- ment, fin educa- tion, reg-tech.
Engagement with industry mentors, included 3-week on-site interven- tion
Access to T-Hub and Anthill Ven- tures’ respective incubation and venture capital re- sources
Access to the global Fin Tech community and YES BANK’s cus- tomer database
Global platforms to showcase in- sights
Working space at AWFIS in 4 cities
FRS Labs, Signzy, Any- TimeLoan.in, soCash, Au- thMe, PayKey
14 weeks, non-residen- tial, cohort based
https://ww w.f6s.com/
yesbank- fintechac- celera- tor2017/con nect
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8 Microsoft Accelerator
Microsoft with collab- orations with various corporations
Accelera- tion sup- port and ecosys- tem en- gage- ment for tech startups at every step
2012 Banga- lore, Seat- tle, Lon- don, Ber- lin, Tel Aviv, Shanghai, Beijing
Later stage startups Support across the lifecycle of a startup - from idea to IPO
Tech support through BizSpark
Go-to-market and strategic relation- ships support through Microsoft Ventures
connecteam, agrint, AidBits, Contact, Ar- bitrip, Data- Rails, Clus- terTV, drupe, covercy
4 months, residential
https://ww w.f6s.com/
mventure- sin
9 BC-GSV Brand Capi-
tal and GSV Labs
Accelera- tor pro- gram as- sembling the prac- tices from the world's best ven- tures
2016 Bangalore and Gur- gaon
Innovations in EdTech, FinTech, HealthTech and Con- sumer Services
Close mentor- ship, networking, community and partner support Funding access
Equity in each participating ven- ture in exchange of benefits given through the plat- form
Ping2Park, GeeksDemy, MindIQ Solu- tions, Puzzelo, FinUp, Origi- nal4Sure, GrokCare
15 weeks, co- hort-based
https://ww w.f6s.com/
bcgsv/apply
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10 Brigade REAP Brigade Group sup- ported by Microsoft Accelerator and JLL
Real Es- tate Ac- celerator Program (REAP) helps create sustaina- ble and scalable busi- nesses in the real estate in- dustry
2016 Bangalore Startups in the real estate and hospitality sector in India
Customer, men- torship and indus- trial access
Workspaces across 5 locations in Bangalore
Investor Pitch and Demo Days for investment and fi- nancial access
Expertise in all supporting areas including tech, strategy, legal, product develop- ment etc.
NATURA Ur- ban Land- scape, aapka- painter.com, DesignDesne, SoukWagon.c om,
coworkyard
4 months info@bri- gadereap.co m
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11 Five.Eight Acceler- ator
GE
Healthcare
Global healthcar e startups with a solutions for low- cost set- tings are targeted for sus- tainability and scalabil- ity
2016 Bangalore All global healthcare startups in their ma- ture or later stage of innovation accelera- tion
Funding up to
$5M per startup, on a case by case basis
Access to healthcare mar- ket-related and customer infor- mation
Technological and Clinical Sup- port
Support on mar- keting and busi- ness develop- ment
Tricog health and portfolio companies from four so- cial impact in- vestors - Av- ishkaar-Intel- lecap Group, Acumen, Villgro and Unitus Seed Fund
Non-residen- tial, remote support
http://shs.ge healthcare.c om/five_eig ht_form.asp x
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12 Intel India Maker Lab
Intel Targeted at hard- ware and systems innova- tors, In- dia Maker Lab aims to to ac- celerate Design- in-India capability
2015 Bangalore Hardware systems based startups with focus areas: elec- tronics product, IoT, Embedded Product systems, Design, Computing in do- mains such as MedTech, SMART Cities, Automobiles, CleanTech, Industrial IoT, Consumer IoT, and other relevant technology areas.
Multi-stage fi- nancing support
Access to Intel In- dia Maker Lab in Bangalore and SINE facilities in Mumbai
Technical, infra- structural and equipment sup- port
Bootcamp mod- ule to kickstart the program along with access to mentors and experts
Testing and man- ufacturing con- nects facilities
Visibility and showcase oppor- tunities
Coworking spaces in Mum- bai and Banga- lore
Afresh Tech- nologies, Apei- ron Mobility, Bharati Ro- botic Systems, BleeTech In- novations, Ep- ocare, Frag- gingmonk Technologies
Residential upto 6 months, with 7 months vir- tual phase
https://ww w.in- tel.in/con- tent/www/i n/en/do-it- your- self/about- maker- lab.html
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13 Vertica Hewlett
Packard
To ena- ble startups to har- ness the HPE Ver- tica Ad- vanced Analytics Platform to build their own enter- prise strength products to solve data re- lated chal- lenges
2015 Early stage compa-
nies looking to de- velop big data solu- tions
Removal of barri- ers for developing high performing data solutions
Special access and pricing to ac- cess HP technol- ogy, tools and products
One year pro- gram with Bootstrap and Growth phases
startup.ac- celera- [email protected] om
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14 Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator
Oracle A non- tradi- tional, custom tailored accelera- tor pro- gram run by Ora- cle’s R&D de- partment
2016 Bangalore Early stage technol- ogy-based and -ena- bled companies
Oracle Cloud Ac- cess
Advisory and Mentorship
R&D Engage- ment
Coworking space
Access to Ora- cle’s Customer and investor base
ezeDox, fare- bond.com, Re#hash, Sonder Con- nect, Tydy, Niyo Solutions
6 months, non-residen- tial, with a possible 2 year Oracle cloud credits extension
https://ww w.ora- cle.com/in/s tartup/ap- ply.html
15 #MaketheFuture Accelerator
Shell Awards
pro- gramme that se- lects and grooms three startups for a final awards event in Singa- pore
2017 Bangalore 1. Cleantech startups in the post-pilot or prototype stage 2. Focus areas: en-
ergy efficiency, re- duce energy waste, reduce CO2 emissions, energy generation from a new source and broadened en- ergy access.
Coaching from experts to take ideas into relaity
Accelerator event in Singapore to discuss business plan with experts and seasoned en- trepreneurs
Smart Joules, Carbon Mas- ters, Gravity Labs
3 shortlisted finalists are guided for a final pitch to decide to win- ner
http://www.
shell.in/en- ergy-and- innova- tion/make- the-future- accelerator- india.html