{"id":2349,"date":"2017-01-09T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:39:27","slug":"uber-announces-uberpitch-2016-winners-invest-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/01\/09\/uber-announces-uberpitch-2016-winners-invest-50000\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber announces &#8216;UberPITCH 2016&#8217; winners, to invest $50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online cab-hailing firm Uber on Monday announced the winners of &#8216;UberPITCH 2016&#8217;, an India-wide competition to find the brightest startups.<\/p>\n<p>The winning companies are e-commerce startup SeekSherpa, agriculture firm LeanAgri and health startup Ambee.<\/p>\n<p>Uber will invest $50,000 in the companies and invite them to San Francisco where they will get guidance from top executives and other venture capitalists.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our leaders at headquarters in San Francisco can not wait to meet them and help them on the next stage of their journey,&#8221; said Amit Jain, President, Uber India, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>SeekSherpa is a digital platform for locals to market and sell unique experiences to travellers.<\/p>\n<p>LeanAgri aims to provide end-to-end solutions to farmers to increase their farm productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Ambee is a network of hospital and private ambulances on a single technology platform, enabling users to find the nearest ambulance to go to a destination of their choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online cab-hailing firm Uber on Monday announced the winners of &#8216;UberPITCH 2016&#8217;, an India-wide competition to find the brightest startups. The winning companies are e-commerce startup SeekSherpa, agriculture firm LeanAgri and health startup Ambee. Uber will invest $50,000 in the companies and invite them to San Francisco where they will get guidance from top executives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/01\/09\/uber-announces-uberpitch-2016-winners-invest-50000\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber announces &#8216;UberPITCH 2016&#8217; winners, to invest $50,000<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}