Kochi: MindHelix Technosol, aStartup Village company here, has been selected by the US-based Alchemist Accelerator Programme for enterprise product start-ups.
MindHelix has created a cloud computing based customer interaction application, which has been selected for the Accelerator, the company said in a statement. It had also created the TukTuk Meter, a mobile application that went viral in 2011.
Many investors, including multi-billion-dollar investment firm Khosla Ventures and CISCO back the Alchemist Accelerator, MindHelix said in a statement.
“MindHelix’s achievement clearly shows that Indian Startups are truly global and can compete with the ones in the US,” said Kris Gopalakrishnan, Infosys Executive Co-Chairman, who is also the chief mentor of Startup Village. “Platforms such as Startup Village can be a great launch pad for start-ups like MindHelix where they can grow and go global,” he added.
The Accelerator based in Menlo Park, San Francisco, runs a programme for six months incubating 12 enterprise-centric start-ups and MindHelix is the only international start-up in the group.
The programme allocates $30,000 in seed funding to each firm and also provides these startups the opportunity to showcase their products to Fortune 100 companies in the US.
MindHelix has already acquired customers in hospitality, banking sectors and also government agencies across multiple states in India. The MindHelix team will be moving to US for the programme.
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