Citrix Startup Accelerator, the company’s corporate incubator focused on
providing seed investments to start-ups from around the world, has named
the five finalists of its Startup.Synergy Challenge. These finalists
will present the case for their product live to a panel of judges the
afternoon of May 9 during the Startup.Synergy track at Citrix Synergy,
the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet. An
esteemed panel of judges from Citrix and the Silicon Valley venture
capital community will select the winner of the $100,000 investment from
Citrix, and inclusion in the Startup Accelerator 2012 class. The
finalists chosen to compete include:
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AppEnsure
- Application performance ensurance in dynamic virtualized and cloud
computing environments
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BuildAR
- Commoditizing access to augmented reality for today, and for
tomorrow’s new enterprise apps
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CumuLogic
- Enabling Java platform-as-a-service in public, private and hybrid
IaaS clouds
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Hey
Maya - Virtual personal assistants for access to enterprise apps
from mobile
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ScriptRock
- A new look at configuration management – store, share and test your
system configurations
The winner will be selected by an experienced panel of judges, including:
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Ramu Arunachalam - Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
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Paul Weinstein - founding General Partner, Azure Capital
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Frank Artale - General Partner, Ignition Capital
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Carl Showalte - General Partner, Opus Capital
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Jonathan Siegel - Principal, Right Ventures
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Jason Calacanis - CEO, Mahalo.com
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Matt Marshall - Founder and Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat
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Martin Duursma - VP and GM, Citrix Labs
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Kumar Goswami - VP of Products, VDI-in-a-Box, Citrix
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Jesse Lipson - VP and GM, Data Sharing, Citrix
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Chris Fleck - VP of Mobility Solutions, Citrix
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Andy Cohen - VP of Corporate Development, Citrix
The IT landscape is in a period of dramatic change, shifting
expectations of IT and computing capabilities and providing an
opportunity for entrepreneurs to contribute their ideas. As the
exceptions of the PC Era – mobile users, personal devices, and wireless
access – rapidly become the assumptions of the Cloud Era, Citrix
recognizes that startups can help shape the future. With the Startup
Accelerator program, Citrix continues to lead innovation by enabling
entrepreneurs to benefit from the global Citrix presence, its large
customer base and seasoned go-to-market strategies to help further their
ideas.
Second Investment Successfully Exits Startup
Accelerator
In tandem with naming a new entrant into the Startup Accelerator
program, Citrix will also announce that Drumbi is the second investment
company to successfully exit the Accelerator upon the close of its first
A round of funding. This news comes on the heels of Nukona’s successful
acquisition by Symantec in April 2012. Since launching the program in
2011, the program has announced investments in eleven innovative
companies that are poised to change the face of cloud, mobile and
virtualization technologies. The successful migration path forward of
both Drumbi and Nukona is testament to the value of the Citrix
contribution to leading innovation in the tech industry.
Startup.Synergy
At Startup.Synergy, fifteen
startups will be featured including ten
current portfolio companies and the five Startup.Synergy Challenge
finalists. The sessions held during Startup.Synergy will focus on
providing entrepreneurs with insight into the incredibly fluid IT
landscape of the Cloud Era. It will provide an inside look at tomorrow’s
multibillion tech companies, a framework to appreciate how quickly these
companies are proliferating and showcase how the Citrix Startup
Accelerator is building new bridges to this ecosystem. Registration is
available online here.