After completing two successful rounds,
Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI), a global technology company providing innovative products and solutions to power commerce, is inviting applications for the third round of its startup accelerator program. The program focuses on startups that leverage software for location-based services and global ecommerce.
On April 26th, Pitney Bowes announced the launch of the
Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, a commerce enabler that provides access to solutions, analytics and APIs across the full commerce continuum to help clients identify customers, locate opportunities, enable communications, power shipping from anywhere to everywhere, and manage payments. It has also recently launched a series of APIs available in a self-service portal (developer.pitneybowes.com) which hosts resources to develop, deploy and manage the creation of new applications based on its location intelligence and shipping technologies.
Manish Choudhary, Pitney Bowes Senior Vice President, Global Innovation and Managing Director, said, “In an increasingly complex world of commerce, Pitney Bowes is focused on developing product solutions in innovative ways and delivering them to the global marketplace. Startups in India are vital to technology innovation and we look forward to teaming with startups that align well with the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud.”
In the last two years, Pitney Bowes has incubated ten startups in India. Participants of last year included Ipsator Analytics (Consumer Perception Management Platform), Fetchon (Audience Profiling Engine), Kayeura (Indoor Analytics to drive Traffic to Web) and Shipdesk technologies (Multicarrier Rate Shopping Platform).
For its third round, Pitney Bowes is looking for dynamic innovative entrepreneurs who are building businesses for India and global markets, primarily in the following areas –
• Global Ecommerce (logistics, shipping management, data analytics)
• Location-based ad-tech
• Location-based platform (services, advertising, analytics, analytics, enterprise apps, GIS enabled systems, Indoor navigation and other spatial analysis use cases)
• Big data, mobile analytics and machine learning
• Data integration, data quality and master data management
• Industry-specific solutions or applications related to all of the above
The program will be accepting applications until 20th June, 2016. Selected startups will be informed by the first week of July and invited to present before a jury. After the selection process, the startups for the program will be announced in August 2016.
As part of the program, the shortlisted entrepreneurs/startups will have a choice to be located in the PB offices either in Pune or in Noida for incubation and mentorship. Startups in the program will have access to Pitney Bowes’ software, application programming interfaces (APIs) and data for the duration of the program. Training, technical and business guidance and mentoring will be provided to the start-ups from Pitney Bowes engineering and innovation leaders, and from software industry experts.
