NetApp Excellerator Cohort 8: Meet 8 startups using data, cloud to power their impact across sectors
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For State of Mind AI, an employee experience analytics solution, its cloud-first product helps one interact with end-users in real-time. “Leveraging the cloud also helps us scale our product performance on the fly while keeping data secure, safe, and protected. In addition, it helps us optimise costs as an early-stage startup,” shares Manoj Kumar, Founder, State of Mind AI.
Metabob, an AI company which has developed a tool to debug and visualise Python code, is dependent on using cloud-based solutions to gather and process training data. “We are a data-first company. The need to pipe data into the same locations as our training data is essential. So, leveraging cloud resources remains an essential part of our daily work,” shares Massi Genta, CEO, Metabob.
According to the Egon Zehnder Global Diversity Report 2020, women hold just 23.3 percent of board positions globally. As men continue to get the lion’s share of senior positions in boardrooms across the world, the trend has triggered conversations around what is stopping organisations from becoming
‘Digital today is the most advertised category’ – 30 quotes of the week on digital transformation
From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of February 1-7 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world.
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Only three percent of the world is on the cloud. If you don t get senior management together, it does not happen. - Andy Jassy, Amazon
Climate change is an urgent and complex challenge, and CXOs need to come up with stricter regulations. Sustainability needs to be managed every day. - Mayank Chauhan, LogicLadder
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India’s startup ecosystem is flooded with data and insights about funding in the B2B technology space. However, there is hardly any statistics on B2B technology startups led by women leaders. Within this limited availability of data, the narratives point to the fact that the number of women driving B2B technology and especially B2B deep technology is small. Madhurima Agarwal, Leader, NetApp Excellerator agrees, “Historically, we have seen a lower percentage of women in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields in India, so has been the case in the B2B technology space. There is a huge gap in the number of women entrepreneurs in deep technology compared to the B2C technology in the startup ecosystem.”
NetApp announced the completion of its seventh demo day for NetApp Excellerator, the company’s flagship startup accelerator program. The seven graduating startups are BlinkIn, Litmus Automation, CloudHedge, SynctacticAI, BrainSightAI, Arintra, and Sn126. These startups are set to disrupt technology in the areas of clinical AI, mental health, data management, edge computing, and remote customer service.
In keeping with the times, the cohort was managed virtually, which allowed four startups from around the globe to participate, giving this cohort a unique international flavour. Litmus Automation, CloudHedge, Arintra, and Sn126 are headquartered in the United States. A cloud specialist with a 27-year legacy of data, NetApp focuses on helping these startups pivot their technology and business models to benefit customers today as well as in the future.