Top 3 ‘Emerge-X’ winners from each of the five states will receive access to year-long mentorship program and two-day founder bootcamp
Fifth edition of Highway to a Hundred Unicorns hosted at Hyderabad in collaboration with Government of Telangana
Hyderabad, India, January 16, 2020 : In its efforts to enable the startup ecosystem in Tier 2 cities across the country, Microsoft’s ‘Highway to a Hundred Unicorns’ has selected 54 startups from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Kerala and Telangana. The top tech startups selected through ‘Emerge-X’ win Azure credits and a host of business and tech benefits. The competition has received over 530 applications and the top three startups from each state gain access to a year-long mentorship program and a two-day founder bootcamp.
Highway to a Hundred Unicorns, the Microsoft for Startups initiative, works closely with local governments to strengthen the startup ecosystem in each state. The fifth edition of the outreach program was hosted at Hyderabad in association with the Government of Telangana. More than 150 innovators and entrepreneurs engaged with Microsoft experts, industry stalwarts and ecosystem stakeholders, including members of the state government.
More than 650 startups that have participated in the five events have benefited from the mentorship and guidance through technology workshops on Azure, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Over 75 ecosystem players including the Global Entrepreneurship Network, TiE, Headstart, NASSCOM, and Startup Grind as well as prominent investors, entrepreneurs and executives in the national startup ecosystem have actively engaged with the innovators at each of the locations. Wholesalebox and Rapidor are among the participating startups in the program that have received recent fresh funding from one of the participating investors.
Lathika Pai, Country Head, Microsoft for Startups – MENA and SAARC said, “The entrepreneurial energy of startups is rising well beyond the known metropolitan hubs and is remarkably high in Tier 2 cities, despite the obvious challenges. Through Highway to a Hundred Unicorns, we’ve been able to reach some highly promising innovators from each of the five states. In the next phase of our journey, we look forward to engaging with more startups and accelerating their growth and providing them with Microsoft’s platform to go global.”
Microsoft for Startups is committed to helping entrepreneurs build and scale their companies, by leveraging the cloud platform, enterprise sales team and partner ecosystem. Through its cutting edge technology expertise, strong focus on Microsoft for Startups, a growing partner ecosystem, and the venture fund M12, Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help startups evolve from being market ready to enterprise ready.
Emerge X Winners :
| Sl. No. | Org Name | Founder Name |
| Maharashtra | ||
| 1 | Spider G | Ashwani Rathore |
| 2 | Greenovative Energy | Vinit Kulkarni |
| 3 | BharatAgri | Sai Gole |
| 4 | Innoctive | Deepesh Kuruppath |
| 5 | IOPhysics Systems | Ashish Gawali |
| 6 | Tilt | Deepak VS |
| 7 | Swipez | Shuhaid Lambe |
| 8 | NeuroTags | Abhishek Agrawal |
| 9 | ScifferAnalytics | Karan Kabra |
| 10 | Webcuits Technologies | Rahul Dupare |
| 11 | Agile Connects | Anand Aurangabadkar |
| Kerala | ||
| 12 | ACELR Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd. (Rapidor) | Thomson Skariah Thayil |
| 13 | Genrobotic Innovations Private Limited | Vimal Govind |
| 14 | CLAP Research Private Ltf | Anoop Ambika |
| 15 | XShip Design and Analytics Private Limited | Sandith Thandasherry |
| 16 | Survey Sparrow Private Limited | Shihab Muhammed |
| 17 | Concept Realization and IT Solutions P Ltd | Anand Subhash |
| 18 | Tranzmeo IT Solutions Private Limited | Safil Sunny |
| 19 | BillionLives Business Initiatives Pvt Ltd. | John Santosh |
| 20 | Clootrack Software Labs Private Limited | Shameel Abdulla |
| 21 | Instio Experiences Pvt Ltd | Girish Prabhu |
| 22 | AI Aeronautics | Vishnu V Vath |
| 23 | Cavalier Wireless Inc. | Ajit Thomas |
| Gujarat | ||
| 24 | Locanix | Ruchit Surati |
| 25 | Byte Prophecy | Mrugank Parikh |
| 26 | Matrubharti | Mahendra Sharma |
| 27 | Oizom | Jainam Mehta |
| 28 | Jobsquare Network Private Limited | Ishit Jethwa |
| 29 | Plexus MD | Rohan Desai |
| 30 | Synersense PVT LTD | Gunjan Patel |
| 31 | Gridle.one | Yash Shah |
| 32 | Reelo Technologies | Prit Sanghvi |
| 33 | EroNkan Technologies | Ketan Parekh |
| 34 | AlmaShines | Kapil Dev Advani |
| Rajasthan | ||
| 35 | Wholesalebox | Rohit Dangayach |
| 36 | Bix42 | Jagdish Ghuge |
| 37 | Dealshare | Aditi Sharma |
| 38 | Secure Learning | Yogesh Kaushik |
| 39 | Hyrefox | Aditya Kedia |
| 40 | Rarome | Virendra Maloo |
| 41 | mPass | Ankit Tiwari |
| 42 | mHeal | Divyansh Srivastava |
| 43 | Tinkerly | Sharad Bansal |
| 44 | medcords | Nikhil Baheti |
| Telangana | ||
| 45 | Eyedentify Systems Private Limited | Dhushyanth Dachiraju |
| 46 | WeSecureApp | Venu Rao |
| 47 | EasyCommute | Mayank Chawla |
| 48 | SignalX Pvt. Ltd. | Govind Balachandran |
| 49 | NaPanta | Naveen Kumar V |
| 50 | EHNOTE | Amaranatha Reddy |
| 51 | Onward AssIst | Dinesh Koka |
| 52 | Yoryo Technologies Private Limited | Amardeep Chougale |
| 53 | Enmovil Solutions Private Limited | Ravi Bulusu |
| 54 | NanoHealth | Manish Ranjan |
Image Caption : Telangana Emerge X Winners with (L-R) Lathika Pai – Country Head, Microsoft for Startups, MENA & SAARC; Jayesh Ranjan – IAS Principal Secretary to Government of Telangana, Industries & Commerce (I&C) Dept., & Information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Dept.; Gayle Sheppard – Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Data; and Rajiv Kumar – MD, Microsoft IDC and Corporate Vice President, Experiences & Devices, India.
