Vanessa Gao, CEO in Residence of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing said, "This is the best era for business creation. Government support, as well as encouragement from society, provides entrepreneurs with the resources and respect they need to pave the way towards realising their dreams. Over the past 30 months, we have had the honour of working alongside the most outstanding entrepreneurial teams and helping to facilitate their rapid development."
More than 700 entrepreneurial teams applied for the 6th cohort, from which 21 teams were selected:
- Singularity Machine Intelligence extends the search function from the Internet into mobile apps
- Idotools provides mobile phone tools
- iYunxue Age develops and operates online primary and secondary school education products that support Mofangge, the No. 1 brand for online question databases and interactive communities for K12 in China
- Youtejie analyses logs in enterprise information systems for search engines
- Yuexiang Trend produces wearable technologies and has created "Liangliang", a watch that measures multiple vital signs
- Skylark Technology provides a cloud platform with high-density and dynamic computing capacity
- Tenxor, an eye health big data team, provides self-care monitoring devices and a remote consultation service
- Zhichidata applies big data and natural language processing in customer services
- Malong Technology deploys deep learning and computer vision technologies to equip artificial intelligence with fashion tastes
- Meicai is a mobile e-vendor of agricultural products, serving tens of thousands of small and medium-sized restaurants in China
- Ehang has built an intelligent, unmanned aerial vehicle
- Cogtu Technologies, an advertising company, is the creator of native advertisements embedded in images, combining image-recognition, semantic analysis and cognitive analysis technologies in artificial intelligence
- Yourstech created APICloud, a one-stop application development platform combining cloud and end functions
- Goudaifu uses intelligent devices to provide online health consultation and offline treatment services for pets
- Deetin creates intelligent routers designed specifically for the mobile age
- ITjuzi is dedicated to building a database for startups and investments
- Louli is a life-service platform
- Yida Technologies creates an O2O platform for global designers in the mode of "mashup + experts"
- Kemaiduo is a social and personal CRM platform that helps sales personnel develop personal connections and improve business performance
- EulerSpace combines robot control with cloud computing
- Aidmics is a biotechnology team from Taiwan dedicated to reproduction optimisation and building mobile and connected intelligent sperm testing devices and services
Since its launch in China in July 2012, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Beijing has formed strategic partnerships with many industry leaders to help startups connect with clients. Over 90% of the 85 graduates from the programme have already obtained a new round of financing, with a total valuation of over RMB10 billion. Six enterprises have been acquired and a big data company has entered Shenzhen Stock Market's New Third Board.
Once an entrepreneurial team has been selected, all resources are provided for free. With the implementation of the lifelong alumni system, startups can enjoy all the rights and interests of the alumni network, so they will continue to receive support from the company after six months of incubation. In addition, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator has established strategic partnerships with Hong Kong and Taiwan to help local startups realise their dreams.
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