Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program Inducts Six Startups in India
August 03 2016 - 12:05AM
Business Wire
“Scale-Up” program helps emerging startups
expand With Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud technologies
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, has
named six startups to the summer session of the Pitney Bowes
Accelerator Program.
The company also announced a new six-month program called
“Scale-Up” designed to give young and emerging startups an
opportunity to expand using Pitney Bowes cloud services and
APIs.
The global Pitney Bowes Innovation team leads the programs. They
recently trained 1,100 engineers and software developers in
technology areas such as mobile, SaaS, AI, analytics and IoT. The
new Pitney Bowes brand is at the center of the company’s Design
System which integrates Design Thinking, Globalization and Talent
Acquisition. In April 2016, the Company launched the Pitney Bowes
Commerce Cloud, a commerce enabler providing access for clients and
developers to Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics and application
programming interfaces (API’s) across the full commerce
continuum.
The Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program provides mentorship, access
to venture funds and networking to innovative startups in the areas
of customer information management, mobile, data analytics,
location-based services, ecommerce management and machine
learning.
The Accelerator startups will have access to select Pitney Bowes
software and APIs for six months. In addition, Pitney Bowes will
provide mentorship with leading engineering and innovation experts
for technical and business guidance. The startups will be placed in
Pune or Noida for incubation and will have opportunities to network
with prospective investors.
The six startups named to the Accelerator Program are:
- eCourierz - an online automated
shipping tool
- Infinite Analytics - a big data and
social analytics company for a 360-degree-view of the customer
- Medimojo - a digital health platform
for simplifying healthcare
- Niki - an Artificial
Intelligence-powered bot that simplifies the ordering
experience
- Sponsifyme - a real-time
geolocation-based marketing platform for offline businesses
- Wedosky - a drone-based startup with a
mapping and analytics platform
“One of the greatest drivers of innovation is collaboration,”
said Roger Pilc, Chief Innovation Officer of Pitney Bowes. “The
Accelerator Program brings our people together with startups and
emerging technology companies to develop APIs on our Commerce Cloud
platform, network with peer startups and our global teams, and
collaborate together on emerging technologies.”
“These six startups are developing technologies for the physical
and digital worlds of commerce,” said Manish Choudhary, Senior Vice
President, Global Innovation and Managing Director, Pitney Bowes
India. “We’re especially pleased to host two women-led startups in
the Accelerator Program, because diversity is also a great driver
of innovation.”
Last year, Pitney Bowes incubated four startups as a part of the
program: Ipsator, Fetchon, Kayeura, and Shipdesk, and two to
an Accelerator Collaboration Program: Loginext and
Primaseller.
Ranga Jagannath, Co-founder of Fetchon, said, “Through the
Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program, we were exposed to technologies
and products that reinforced our belief in the prospects for
proximity driven experiences for brands and consumers.”
The Pitney Bowes Accelerator Program has entered into a
partnership with Microsoft. Microsoft will provide subscriptions to
Microsoft’s Visual Studio and Azure Cloud Credits up to USD$ 27,000
over three years via the BizSpark program.
For more information about the Pitney Bowes Accelerator program,
please visit accelerator.pitneybowes.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 and services 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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