{"id":4667,"date":"2017-08-24T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:03:15","slug":"microsoft-accelerator-announces-11th-start-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/microsoft-accelerator-announces-11th-start-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Accelerator announces 11th start-up cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft announced its 11<sup>th<\/sup> cohort of 14 late-stage start-ups for its \u2018Accelerator\u2019 programme to help boost their enterprise readiness and go-to-market (GTM) activities.<!--more-->The 14 start-ups in the cohort are Clonect, Ace Turtle, VideoKen, Kata.ai, Simplilearn, Udaan, Docswallet, MegDap, Liv.ai, KrypC, i-exceed, GIEOM, Hotelogix and MintM.<\/p>\n<p>The start-ups cover diverse markets and sectors like GST-readiness, video processing, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The average age of the start-ups is 3.5 years and have raised around $64mn in funding till date. Their company size averages to 80 employees and clock an Average Revenue Rate of $2.6mn.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Microsoft \u2018Accelerator\u2019 team, the start-ups will get the opportunity to work with its sales and marketing teams which will help them increase their network base.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Accelerator\u2019 has also formed strategic partnerships with various corporates including TCS, Temasek and Wipro to help the start-ups with their GTM efforts globally.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant Microsoft announced its 11th cohort of 14 late-stage start-ups for its \u2018Accelerator\u2019 programme to help boost their enterprise readiness and go-to-market (GTM) activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}