Citrix Startup Accelerator offers seed funding for passionate entrepreneurs who have great ideas for the development of new technologies and business models around cloud, mobile and collaboration.  The Citrix Startup Accelerator offers:     * Seed funding ($250k)     * An entrepreneur-friendly environment with access to the global Citrix ecosystem.     * An open and interactive accelerator facility in Silicon Valley that offers mentoring  from successful entrepreneurs, Citrix executives, and partners.

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Artificial intelligence is identifying and testing new therapies faster than ever.

AI Drug Discovery

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 Kyndi operates an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that can analyze large bodies of unstructured and long-form text. The company mainly serves customers in the pharmaceutical industry, defense, financial services, and manufacturing. In the pharma sector, its platform can be used in various stages from research and development (R&amp;D) to marketing. The AI platform is capable of identifying keywords, custom entities, and phrases to detect trends, find answers using natural language processing, provide data context and location, and can learn industry terminologies. It can be used to search through medical literature and reports to produce insights and develop dashboards to track various information from clinical studies.
 
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The innovative cost dynamics of serverless computing allow more customers onto the cloud without breaking the bank.

Serverless Computing

Iron.io offers multiple tools to assist development operations (DevOps) to focus on core tasks, without managing infrastructure. The company entered the serverless computing market in 2016, with the launch of IronFunctions, effectively an open-source platform that can be used by developers and uses containers as the base. It allows users to launch serverless applications and functions on private and public clouds, on-premise servers, and hybrid environments. IronFunctions can be written in a variety of programming languages including Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, Go, and .NET. However, the company currently only provides helper libraries and integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda.The company has expanded its operations since 2017 by adding an office in Tokyo, expanding its engineering and customer success teams, and continuing to improve the company’s products (bug fixes, improvements to internal tooling, and adding concurrency graphs, etc.). Iron.io looks to continue ramping up the development of its products by improving performance and reliability and developing a new user interface.Iron.io also continues to invest in new cutting-edge technologies such as “Computerless,” which eliminates the physical machine altogether and allows for it to be fully encapsulated in fiber optic cable.Key customers and partnershipsIts key customers include Google, Harry’s, Philips, Whole Foods, Veritone, and Counsyl.

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Indo-US-based Hiver is an after-sales service solution provider that claims to be the first Gmail-based helpdesk to offer a shared-inbox management system. The platform was exclusively an email collaboration solution but pivoted to a multichannel approach with the launch of its live chat feature in March 2022. The platform features campaign automation (email, live chat), automated workflows, reporting and analytics as well as collaborative functionality such as email assignment, tagging, alerts, notes, email templates, and workload management.&nbsp;Hiver claimed to increase automation by 50%, improve customer support efficiency by 2x, and improve overall efficiency by 20%.&nbsp;&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe platform caters to client services and support teams across a range of industries, including logistics, real estate, travel, manufacturing, education, non-profits, information technology, and financial services. As of August 2024, the platform has served 10,000+ teams across 1,800+ companies across 30 countries, which included Harvard University, ﻿AppsFlyer﻿, ﻿Upwork.com﻿, Vacasa, and Kiwi.com.

Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

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 UpGuard is a cybersecurity company that provides software solutions for third-party risk and attack surface management. The company offers a platform that combines third-party security ratings, security assessment questionnaires, and threat intelligence capabilities to provide its users with a comprehensive view of their risk surface, providing insights to improve their security posture. The platform is also equipped with proprietary security ratings, data leak detection capabilities, and powerful remediation workflows to proactively identify security exposures of companies.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s solutions are catered to financial services, IT, and healthcare industries.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of October 2023, the company&rsquo;s customer base included leading companies such as Built Technologies, dorSavi, Tech Mahindra, Open-Xchange, Rimi Baltic, and ALI Group.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In June 2021, the company raised USD 19 million in a Series B-1 funding round. The round saw the participation of existing investors including IAG Firemark Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of IAG, Pelion Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, and August Capital. The proceeds were intended to be channeled for product development and global expansion initiatives.
 
 
 
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Kyndi's Natural Language-powered platform helps organizations find answers in unstructured, text-based data at unparalleled speed.

NMLStream provides AI for information technology management.

OpsDataStore, provides the first ever solution to online service quality issues by combining a low latency real time scalable big data back end with partner ecosystem of complementary management software vendors. This ecosystem approach gives customers the ability to choose best of breed vendors and achieve data integration through OpsDataStore. This allows customers to improve revenue, reliability, reputation and customer retention. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Johns Creek, Georgia.

3TEN8 develops a cloud SaaS-based platform that helps mobile operators to understand and optimize their wireless networks and subscriber's experience. They creating cognitive operations technology (AIOps) for closed-loop, self-healing, and self-operating networks in 4G, 5G, and beyond. Its software provides insights and analytics for mobile carriers.  The company 's self-learning artificial intelligence technology predicts outages and network degradations and delivers self-healing actionable insights focused on preventing customer impact. Amr Salem, Naresh Guntupalli, and Elica Rahdar founded 3TEN8 on August 15, 2014. It has its headquarters in Santa Clara in California.

InstaSafe is a security solutions organisation that has been redefining cloud based security by introducing disruptive and cost effective solutions that seek to alter the cybersecurity spectrum altogether.  InstaSafe was founded in 2012 by cybersecurity experts Sandip Kumar Panda, Biju George, and Prashanth Guruswamy. As a Gartner recognised Zero Trust Network Access solutions provider, InstaSafe seeks to leverage ZTNA based concepts to ensure a seamless, secure internet experience for all users in an organisation, irrespective of the device or location from which they use these resources. InstaSafe uses the neoteric conception of Software Defined Perimeters (SDP) to deploy a network centric zero trust architecture that leverages the cloud to provide unprecedented security to its users, along with granular level network access control.  As one of the pioneering players in the SDP industry, InstaSafe has made an impression among organisations looking to switch to security setups that aid their migration to the cloud. Unlike appliance-based solutions, InstaSafe offers a hardware-free, Zero configuration, Self-service style, Fully redundant Security-as-a-Service, which could be deployed in minutes with comprehensive reporting.By effectively eliminating the need for on-premise hardware appliances, InstaSafe provides a viable, scalable, simpler, and more secure alternative to existing legacy based security setups.

Lingoland is foreign language immersion from home.

WhoKnows is the first omni-channel lead gen platform driven by AI and specifically optimized for startups.  We have a unique combination of data (over 370M AI-enriched profiles) and lead gen services (email marketing, paid ads, SEO, telemarketing, etc) that allows startups to experiment rapidly in order to build and scale their specific growth engine.  The best part is that after an initial discovery period, our pricing is based on performance, so you only pay for the leads that are generated and can fix your acquisition costs.

GroupTie is group relationship management software for team leaders. It helps them automate the task of adding new members, writing personal introductions, personalizing group messages, and managing multiple categories of members.

TidalScale has developed a scale-up compute and resource architecture. It specializes in the fields of analytics, cloud infrastructure, information technology, software and data mining.  It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California.

UpGuard's proprietary technology tests an organization's IT infrastructure both internally and externally and calculates the potential risk for future intrusions and outages. Upon evaluating the ongoing configuration state of every server and network device, companies are given an easy-to-understand score called CSTAR — a single number which indicates to IT staff as well as their executives their risk level for data breaches. An organization's CSTAR score can even be used by corporate insurers in creating a cybersecurity insurance policy. Thousands of companies, including ADP, E*TRADE, and Cisco Systems, use UpGuard to validate infrastructure, continuously detect risks, and procure cybersecurity insurance.  UpGuard is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Portland, Oregon.

Tuebora is a start-up focused on addressing problems pertaining to Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance from Access perspective. Its Headquarters is in CA, USA and Development Team is in Bangalore, India. It was started by the same people who pioneered Identity Access Governance (IAG). Tuebora's Identity and Access Management/Governance Solution iGovernance360 is Industry's first ground-up Cloud based Identity and Access Management/Governance Solution. The solution is offered as a Managed Service for Organizations of all sizes. Tuebora was recognized by Gartner as one of the vendors to watch in their recent research report on Identity and Access Governance (December 2012). In March 2013, Citrix Systems made a strategic investment in Tuebora.

Wise.io delivers better customer experience through machine learning. Leveraging cutting-edge data science and built on a powerful machine learning engine that learns from past patterns to predict future behavior, Wise.io applications help business users regain control over complex decision making in the face of ever-growing and increasingly diverse data. By maximizing existing investments and augmenting human decision making with predictive analytics, Wise.io enables enterprises to efficiently scale customer-facing operations while increasing the level of customer care. The company integrates its proprietary high-performance machine learning system with a customer’s SaaS-based business applications to automatically infer prior patterns in order to predict, optimize, and influence future behavior.

Incoming Media focuses on solving big problems around mobile video, analytics, and engagement for premium video publishers and advertisers. It engages mobile audiences with the right content at the perfect moment by delivering ''High Quality Mobile Engagement'' to reduce churn, increase engagement and optimize ad monetization. Incoming Media exists because video consumption is trending away from TV towards mobile, and because mobile media is trending away from pull consumption towards push consumption - where each user is notified of personalized content at the perfect moment. Incoming Media helps media publishers navigate these trends, solving the technical challenges of delivering personalized and highest quality mobile video experiences, and seizing the economic opportunity of attracting premium brand advertising.

CumuLogic is a software provider that enables enterprises and Cloud Providers to deliver AWS-compatible database services. CumuLogic Database Service is an “on-prem” platform empowering developers and DBAs with self service database access, while enabling IT Ops to retain control of the underlying infrastructure for governance and security. Databases supported include MySQL, Percona, MongoDB and Couchbase.  With the CumuLogic platform you can offer database “as a service” on any private infrastructure: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, bare metal or VM pools (note: CumuLogic is *not* a database distribution). By adding the CumuLogic DBaaS platform to your existing environment, you can eliminate 90% of the operational tasks and automate even the most complex operations like clustering and replication for MySQL, or sharding and replica sets for MongoDB.  Enterprise developers have the flexibility to orchestrate data services and design application architectures to fit specific availability, scalability, disaster recovery and performance needs.

Armor5, Inc. is a cloud service provider that’s solving the problem of secure mobile access to enterprise data and applications in a new way. They offer the only zero touch, 100% cloud-based solution that enables access to a company’s network, virtualizes enterprise data and applications, and provisions secure and compliant access for every end user. Armor5 protects enterprise resources when accessed from any device.

Apakau's Cloud Proxy is an intelligent, edge-based networking solution which stops distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against dynamic data. In performing its job, RESTful APIs and DHTML applications are fully protected and see significantly faster performance. Available as a service or a customer-datacenter product, Apakau Cloud Proxy requires NO customer installed code. Instead, only a CNAME is added to the customer DNS in order to work alongside existing solutions for network and web acceleration, and static data prevention. The mobile-first, Internet-enabled world demands this protection and simplicity.

There's massive opportunity to improve how we work on the go. Think about when the plane landed on your last business trip: you turned on your phone and opened your inbox. If you’re a salesperson, what did you see? Emails about cookies in the kitchen, birthday messages, and messages from facilities, all mixed in with critical emails from your most important prospects. What don’t you see? The fact that one of these prospects now has 5 open support tickets. And what can you do? Not much, expect apologize for not being able to respond until you’re back at your desk.  There’s got to be a better way. That’s what we’re building at Tylr Mobile-- a role-specific mobile work app that connects your familiar tools for managing your mobile work with your business data and processes to make you more productive on the go.

CloudVertical offers business analytics for Cloud Computing in a solution that is more effective than manually creating reports using a suite of individual tools from multiple vendors. Basically companies can plug their existing tools into Cloud Vertical (such as Amazon and Cloudkick) and then access operational dashboards, advanced reporting and business intelligence.   Beyond just displaying data, Cloud Vertical also gives companies the actionable insights and reports based on data, adding a layer of intelligence. The company integrates a number of tools commonly used for monitoring, such as VMWare, Cloudkick and Pingdom, which offers users of these products additional insight into their data. The company expects to open their API to 3rd party providers by the end of the year.

AppEnsure Ensures  business critical Applications Performance  AppEnsure delivers an Application Performance Management (APM) solution that works for every Windows or Linux application, irrespective of its source; custom developed or purchased, and irrespective of how it is deployed; physical, virtual, private cloud, or public cloud. We are agnostic to what an App is or does.  AppEnsure automatically identifies the applications, maps their topologies, monitors end-to-end response time and throughput across the entire distributed topology of the application and its supporting infrastructure.   The solution delivers automated root cause analysis when application service level degrades, with resolution instructions provided in clear English to Operations. AppEnsure is offered as both an on-premise basis for enterprise, and on a SaaS basis for cloud deployments.

Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Graymatics provide a richly featured Platform as a Service, which is capable of organizing rich media data, based on true content, over the internet, networked video systems & proprietary media sources, optimized for very high scale.

ZeroMail is all about building a service that fixes the issues with email. Email has been around for decades, and over that time we have progressed to a state where it is used as a universal communication protocol between our friends, our collegues and more fundamentally the topics we are interested in. But current approaches to organising this information don't address the core of the problem, your work flow. We give meaning to your email and give you a process to save you time. That is what we feel really seperates us from the competition.

Hiver transforms Gmail into a collaboration platform by enabling teams to easily manage shared email accounts, like support@. Based out of Bangalore and San Jose, Hiver has over 1,500 customers across 30 countries, including Hubspot, Harvard University, Vacasa, Canva, and Shutterstock. To learn more, visit https://hiverhq.com/Hiver is a small team, solving a large problem for a huge number of businesses. Hiver's platform allows teams with shared inboxes to assign each email as a task, give it an owner and a status, leading to greater transparency and accountability. Teams can also automate tasks like assigning emails from a specific customer to a particular agent. Hiver's Notes function provides an activity log right next to the email thread, showing who worked on the assigned task, what action they took, and shows any discussions around the action. Using Collision Alerts, teams have a simple way to prevent multiple teammates from replying to the same email. Insights into team performance can also be viewed to see who's doing well and who needs coaching to do better, including metrics like average time to reply and the average time to close an email. Hiver's enhanced platform is available now. For a 14-day free trial, please visit: hiverhq.com/signup

Unifyo is an essential tool for high performing sales teams that delivers deal-making relationship insight directly to the sales rep and puts unique activity reports in the hands of the sales manager. The innovative contact management technology has a unique ability to categorise contacts across different systems, accounts and identities. 2000 people are currently using a trial version and Unifyo is oversubscribed for the enterprise customer development programme.

Nukona is a mobile management company that enables IT organizations to easily secure, deploy and manage corporate applications and enterprise data on company-owned and personal mobile devices. Nukona is headquartered in San Diego with offices in San Jose, Calif.

drumbi is rethinking the dialer, and making voice social. You use a smart-phone, but make ''dumb'' calls. drumbi fixes that.

Gridcentric has game changing Virtualization Optimization technology for the OpenStack Cloud and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure markets.  Gridcentric's Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology allows for the instantaneous scaling of Virtualized Cloud Infrastructure while using server hardware resources significantly more efficiently. This results in a more flexible, responsive and cost effective OpenStack Cloud infrastructure.  For VDI, VMS optimizes server memory and cuts the boot I/O by put to 90%, resulting in the more than doubling of VM density per server and the elimination of the need to provision storage to accommodate boot storms, cutting storage costs significantly.

Core Mobile, Inc is revolutionizing the healthcare industry with cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning solutions, offering a comprehensive Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that has demonstrated capability to increase hospital capacity without adding more staff, and improving patient outcomes at the same time.  Core Mobile’s mission is simple: streamline and optimize every aspect of patient journey, from scheduling and clinical documentation to bed management, patient engagement, and post-discharge patient-reported outcomes. Core Mobile addresses the entire patient journey – before, during and after care - using single AI and ML powered application, enabling healthcare providers to deliver exceptional care efficiently and effectively. The platform has demonstrated results during multiple paid pilots at numerous hospitals and has acquired Authority to Operate at US Federal Government Hospitals.

Skype on steroids:  a customize-able virtual collaboration platform hosted in a browser and featuring an interactive 3D interface of real-world meeting environments, with many of the applications normally located on your desktop embedded into the browser.

Unifyle offers internet-based apps that enable users to search, manage, and backup personal data from any device. The company also helps employees search, manage, share, and edit files located in multiple file servers, Sharepoint, FTP, etc using a single dashboard from any device. It provides a secure on-premise solution that is integrated with LDAP and supports several MDM solutions. Unifyle was founded in 2009 and is based in Novato, California, United States.

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