Innovators program launched by Citrix

Citrix has announced a three month long Citrix Startup Accelerator Innovators Program in Bangalore. Twelve teams will be selected to receive support, in-depth training, and a workspace. Participants will receive mentoring and guidance from seasoned business executives, industry leaders and venture capital investors.

"We are helping entrepreneurs build the next-generation of technologies and companies. The focus of the Innovators Program is on accelerating business solutions and openly sharing approaches that have been integral to Citrix innovation," said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, senior vice president and GM, Enterprise and Service Provider Division, Citrix Systems.

The residency program at key locations around the world, cultivates breakthrough mobile, cloud, and collaboration technologies by leveraging the expertise of Citrix and key corporate council members. The Innovators Program successfully concluded in Silicon Valley last month and is now scaling globally.

The Program is an amalgamation of leading-edge collaboration, design thinking and lean start-up approaches. Innovation teams will be exposed to developing and bringing to market business technology offerings that are user friendly and help people work better. Also, nascent entrepreneurial teams will learn alongside new corporate product teams, and will receive seed funding as well.