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iStart Valley, a leading business accelerator for the emerging technology based startups is excited to announce the winning startups from the Third batch of its Accelerator Program. Top seven startups were selected for the six months Accelerator program that underwent an intense and rigorous immersive experience. During the program startups evaluated their Product-Market Fit, gained traction on customer development approach, validated the addressable market and utilized the growth hacking tools. Besides gaining access to the number of free resources, Startup teams received coaching and mentoring by iStart Valley’s Entrepreneurs in residence and several other seasoned serial entrepreneurs.
Top 3 winning startups were chosen from the Final Pitch held at the end of the program based on the criteria such as traction, disruptive power of the Startup, Feasibility, Team Effectiveness etc. Winner of the First place is ProjectMQ, the global discovery platform exclusively for independent video games. Project MQ team has finalized a partnership with Kinguin, the "Ebay of Video Games", to support independent video game developers (indie devs) worldwide. As a top influencer for independent video games (indie games), and Project MQ hand-picks the best indie games from around the world. Project MQ has also been selected for the Tampa Bay Wave's new startup cohort for TechDiversity Accelerator, a first of its kind in the world. Marcus Howard, CEO and Co-founder of Project MQ sharing his experience said “iStart Valley Accelerator program has a one-of-a-kind schedule flexibility that's perfect for bootstrapped and early-stage startups. Their structure helped me fit the meetings and online assignments around my day job, family, and other responsibilities. It covers all the best practices you need to validate your startup solution, and prepare your business for an investment!”
Runner-up is Amazity, an innovative platform that Transforms Smart City into Amazing city. Amazity is built on the emerging concepts of Internet of Things, Big Data and leverages the industry leading platforms such as Tridium from Honeywell and Service Now. Amazity was also short listed as top 500 Startups in India and competing for the Smart-Fifty. MJ Charmani, Founder and Chair of iStart Valley said “We are pleased with the progress of these winning Startups from the current batch. It’s impressive that startups across the border have been able to participate and collaborate with the rest of the startup teams. iStart Valley will continue to work with the startups that have successfully graduated beyond the program to help them accelerate their growth”. Startup Team – Cycloid was awarded as the “The Most Innovative Startup” which utilizes the combination of the built in data of the On Board Diagnostics forecasts about individual vehicles. Cycloid was also a Semi Finalist at the MIT pre-accelerator program. Startup “Root”, an Artificial Intelligence driven Healthcare market focused job portal was chosen as the “The Most Promising Startup”.
Next batch of the Accelerator will begin starting Mid-September and the startup teams can apply at - f6s.com/istartvalley/apply
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v 13 Startups participated/Graduated from the Startup Accelerator making significant progress beyond the 6 Months accelerator program.
v 100+ Young Adults and Teens graduated from iStart Valley’s Entrepreneurship Program as part of E-Mindset Initiative help achieve the first Milestone.
v Expanded the Board of Advisors to include the top leaders from the Academia that includes leaders from Accelerators and Incubators in UC Davis, Harvard Medical School and Arizona State University
v Created the office of entrepreneurship in residence and appointed Tom Charman as the Global Entrepreneur in Residence and Denis Salins as the Executive Entrepreneur in Residence.
v Achieved the Bronze Seal of Transparency from Guidestar, a world’s largest non-profits reporting agency
v Launched the Human Capital Accelerator Initiative and training programs on Blockchain Technology, Neuroscience Crash Course and Python programming for young adult 30+ Participants benefited from these low-cost and high value training programs that prepare them to 4th Industrial Revolution.
v Began the exploration of the opportunities for global impacts and lay a strong foundation in the Indian Market for finding roots to launch the programs in India. Our Chairman and Founder – MJ Charmani, met with India’s leading accelerator – AXILOR and many other leading organizations in the South Asian sub-continent forging the alliances for the future.
v Gained Partnership with American Airlines Business Extra program to offer the unique advantage for the Startups to accumulate the Mileage in addition to their individual Mileage.
v iStart Valley promoted the events such as Earthack, a Hackathon celebrating Earthday and Plano Startup Weekend with total participation of 300+ Startup Enthusiasts
v iStart Valley was once again Co-Sponsor and promotor of National Small Business Week 2017 organized by SBDC America.
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November 11th 2017
iStart Valley, a leading business accelerator for the emerging technology based startups is excited to announce the startups selected to the Third batch of the Accelerator Program. Top six startups were chosen from the thirty-five applicants in the final round of the selection process. iStart Valley leverages the F6S Platform to invite startups to apply for the six months Accelerator program. These selected startup teams will go through a rigorous idea validation and focus on customer development following the Lean Launchpad methodology. Startup teams also work on exploring the Product-Market fit, evaluate the addressable market and learn to utilize the growth hacking tools. Besides gaining access to the number of free resources, Startup teams will receive coaching and mentoring by iStart Valley's Entrepreneurs in residence and several other serial entrepreneurs.
The last month of the Accelerator program will aim at Startups presenting to iStart Valley's growing Venture Capitalist and Super Angels network for funding. The key differentiator of the program is the pairing of startups with Venture Capitalists who share common interests and are the right fit based on their portfolio to expedite the funding process. The best Startup Team among the Third Batch will walk away with $1500 cash prize.
Startup teams preparing to launch and accelerate their early-growth with the brightest ideas in the emerging technologies are listed as below.
RIDR - A Ride Sharing with a Hybrid Approach. It is a ride sharing application that provides people statistics on the environment impact of their ride, money they are saving and lets the companies personalize their ride sharing view.
ProjectMQ - is the global discovery platform and incubator exclusively for independent video games. With ProjectMQ's invite-only app, gamers can enjoy hi-def multimedia from the world's best indie games. - Search less. Play more. Discover video games you'll love with ProjectMQ: A New Hope for Indie Games.™
Cycloid utilizes the combination of the built in data of the On Board Diagnostics, included in every car built after 1996, and external monitors to create a personalized system linked to the cloud with data, statistics, and forecasts about individual vehicles. These statistics allow for a consumer to foresee an issue before it occurs, and save a substantial amount of money.
Root is an Artificial Intelligence driven marketplace application matching healthcare professionals seeking short and long term employment opportunities and healthcare facilities seeking to fill such positions. Root's goal is to make healthcare recruiting and placement transparent, fast, and simple.
Amazity Transforms Smart City into Amazing city. Captures data from various sources like Social, Streams, IOT, IT etc. Integrates different smart city systems like traffic management system, Parking management system, Energy management system etc. Analyses and correlates the data input across the smart city systems with preventive and Predictive analysis/alerts. Meaningful dashboards for various stakeholders of smart city including Citizens.
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iStart Valley, a leading business accelerator is announcing the appointment of Entrepreneurs in Residence. In an effort to better support the needs of aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, innovators and creators, iStart Valley is bringing on board high caliber and best-in-class experts who have deeper and broader experience in making technology ventures successful. Search for Entrepreneurs in residence which started two months back resulted in an overwhelming response.
After reviewing seventy-five applicants, Board Advisors and the Executive Committee have selected Tom Charman as the Global Entrepreneur in Residence and Denis Salins as the Executive Entrepreneur in Residence. Both Tom and Denis started their entrepreneurial journey as teenagers and have rich experience in creating successful startups and mentoring entrepreneurs. Welcoming the entrepreneurs in residence, MJ Charmani, Chairman and Founder of iStart Valley, said “We are very excited to have both Tom and Denis join us at a very important juncture. We look forward to work with them to refine and enrich our Startup Accelerator and Human Capital Accelerator Programs. Tom and Denis will also help us shape our experiential entrepreneurship Programs to position iStart Valley as the #1 Provider of Entrepreneurial Services to early Stage Entrepreneurs and Startups.”
Global Entrepreneur in Residence, Tom Charman, is based in London, UK. Named the Future Face of Innovation and Technology in the UK, Tom focuses on areas including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. He’s been featured in international publications such as the TATA Consultancy Report of 2016 and Success Magazine and has advised both the UK and EU governments on entrepreneurship and the implications of regulation within cutting edge technology. He has previously mentored for organizations including Stanford University and was named one of the young entrepreneurs to watch in 2017 by startups.co.uk. He was named as one of the finalists for the future business leader of the year by FMCG company MARS and has since joined both KAIROS and Founders of the Future, as one of the world’s most innovative young entrepreneurs.
Denis Salins, Executive Entrepreneur in Residence, based in Shreveport, Louisiana, is a Chief Technology Officer of EMR Technology Solutions, a fully integrated software platform to help physicians manage the business-practice and documentation of medicine. Over the years, Denis has grown many businesses from offshoring development and back office work, to sales and vacations. Denis has always loved the adventure of taking an 'idea' and find the value-proposition. Personally having developed full-stack applications (C# and Python) for web and mobile, Denis is an expert in helping Startups choose the right Technology Platforms and adopt the successful business models.