Microsoft launches cloud Accelerator in China first 10 companies selected

Zhang announces Microsoft launches at Huayun accelerator

Microsoft recently launched its first venture accelerator in China, the "cloud accelerator". The first 10 start-ups will receive free office space from Microsoft, Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Office software and entrepreneurial guidance.

The first phase of the Microsoft Cloud Accelerator lasts for 6 months (from July 2012 to the end of December 2012). In the first 50 start-up companies, 10 teams were selected through multiple rounds of screening, which involved information aggregation, gaming social platforms, mobile application development, smartphone application testing platforms, corporate networking, etc.

Zhang, Microsoft's senior vice president, said that unlike the current entrepreneurial incubator, Microsoft's Cloud Accelerator has a clear positioning. "We provide a technology platform for the companies in the accelerator, and such companies already have teams and technologies, and Microsoft offers phased acceleration." ”

Zhang introduced that the first batch of selected enterprises after a number of rounds of assessment, which will involve the team, technology, business model, as well as the correlation with the cloud and other indicators.

He said that Microsoft mainly looked at the technology and cloud-related factors of the selected companies, the success of the business model is mainly by partners IDG Capital evaluation.

It is reported that the venture capital fund IDG Capital is Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Phase One project exclusive fund partner. IDG partner Shong revealed today that the first 10 start-ups have already invested 3 of them and are considering further investments.

Turning to Microsoft's Cloud Accelerator, Zhang said Microsoft hoped that in 6 months, the start-up team would grow rapidly, become a cloud expert, and that business models and products would become mature.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's visit to China in May this year announced that it will set up a cloud accelerator project in China before Microsoft launched the Cloud Accelerator project in the US and Israel.

Introduction of 10 Selected start-up companies:

1. Cloud Survey Network

With the rapid development of mobile Internet, the popularity of Android terminals, more and more apps and terminal discomfort caused by app application can not install, program crashes, accidental termination and other problems more and more plagued the vast number of users, the use of Testin real machine automatic test platform, Mobile app developers just upload apps online, by choosing the different real mobile terminals and networks that are needed, the platform automatically completes the application's suitability test on all different models, different networks, installation, running, screen, UI, and records "Scripts", and detailed test reports are sent to the developer via email, Developers can quickly find programs based on logs and screenshots.

2. Cloud Image fretting

Play Map "is the Beijing Cloud image Micro-motion of the three of the application of a category, the other two sections are called" micro-map "and" can map. " In the "Play graph", the user can make homemade GIF format content (about GIF, you can refer to Baidu Encyclopedia (microblogging) in the introduction). The length of the longest 40 seconds, divided into automatic and manual (manual mode, the user can take a continuous shot of 30 frames, and eventually connected to a full GIF image).

3. Atom,inc

Social collaborative software for small and medium-sized enterprises

4. Pivot OpenXLive (get the third place of BizSpark Enterprise Finals)

Beijing Pivot Joint Travel Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in February 2011, is a commitment to mobile Internet and gaming social platform of it enterprises. Their development operations OpenXLive focus on the Windows Phone platform, the gaming and social networking platform on Windows Phone. At present, the openxlive installed capacity of 510,000, monthly active users 210,000, monthly results of 1.31 million submissions.

5. The Borg Borgge

The blackboard newspaper is a product developed by the Borg to solve the problem of personalized information acquisition. Blackboard Newspaper is an intelligent personalized, social reading platform. Poster through the selection of news portals, social platform, micro-blog, and blogs and other heavyweight network media information, based on the user's interest in accurate recommendations, to support users through the PC, smart phones, tablets, smart TV and other terminals on current affairs news, life information, high-definition beauty Map to read, and real-time sharing, interaction. Users can also be based on personal reading preferences to the content and browsing mode customization, experience a large amount of information accurate capture, interface operation of the free and simple reading pleasure, truly "Wonderful Life, the heart of reading!"

6. Shearing Guest Vjianke.com

With the development of Web2.0, information has been liberated from the past scarcity and strict control, but at another extreme, information overload, lack of classification and rating recommendation mechanism. So some people say that pride swims in the information of the ocean, but often feel thirsty intolerable. Clipping is a social reading platform based on interest clippings. Users read the web with clips of their own interest, clipped from the browser's clipping tool, and collected on the cutting Platform album, and socially pushed to friends in their own circles. Through collaborative filtering based on interest tribes, the essence content is kept spread and the rubbish information is filtered out. The appearance is to use the power of social network to reorganize the Internet fragment, in the interest of reading mobile reading while gathering like-minded friends together to enrich the essence of the Internet. The team was founded in Silicon Valley, USA. The members were originally distributed in the United States, Canada and China. Beijing Yi Yun Shearing Technology Co., Ltd. was recently relocated to China.

7. Light-years Infinite, Unidust

Its products for the worm hole Voice assistant, for a cloud based intelligent services, designed to provide users with convenient, fast, accurate information services. Users simply enter commands close to the natural language to obtain a rich and accurate request, and users can choose different data sources. Wormhole Cloud services now has a number of cooperative web sites and data sources, is now available: Express, quotes, train tickets, weather, bus, train, translation, novels, jokes and other nearly hundred kinds of information services, and in the continuous expansion.

8. Snack 2¥q

Snack Studio is a design driven product development team, at the time of its inception was an iOS game team, currently in Windows Phone and Windows 8 platform for day-to-day application and game product development.

9. Apehills

Focus on the design and development of mobile Internet product services, focusing on the integration of art, gaming and education. Products include Bookfaces, OMG American language, TOEIC, Android car, etc. Currently in the Japanese education category of paid software ranked first.

10. Future pay, flying feast net

Flying Banquet Network is the banquet as a new gift, MMS as a gift-giving way, when sending MMS to convey their feelings to express. A new social model for a long-distance dinner party.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)