The Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program is designed to help high potential software startups around the globe get access, guidance and support to accelerate their success on the Microsoft platform. Selected participants receive customized engagement plans to support their software and market development efforts. Accelerator companies are selected to join the program based on their innovation, high growth potential, funding, platform decision and strategic importance to Microsoft.

View This Success Story	“Microsoft's Startup Accelerator Program empowered iBloks to effectively build a successful start up and quickly go from concept to revenue generation in under one year. It’s a powerful and valuable resource for any start up to leverage.” - Julia Miller, CEO of iBloks
View This Success Story	“As the leading on demand tutoring and homework help service, we’ll connect over a million students and tutors online for a customized, one-to-one learning experience anytime students get stuck this school year. We rely on cutting edge technologies to make these instantaneous connections happen seven days a week and we’re honored to be part of the Microsoft Accelerator Program as we continue to enhance the experience and tools available to our students and tutors as they work together on everything from elementary math problems to advanced physics equations.” – George Cigale, Founder and CEO of Tutor.com
View This Success Story	“Our rich media publisher customers require support for the leading media technologies in the industry – It’s one of the key attributes of the Kiptronic dynamic ad insertion and measurement platform. Working with Microsoft, we’ve been able to easily integrate Windows Media Technologies into Kiptronic for the benefit of our users.” - Jonathan Cobb, Founder and CTO of Kiptronic
View This Success Story	“Our architecture had to have a combination of scale and flexibility. While we are focused on TV today, we will soon support multiple types of advertising mediums—radio, print, online video, video-on-demand, and Internet TV as well. Those applications all require a different advertising platform. We needed a solution that would allow us to get big fast, and be easily adapted. Microsoft is that infrastructure.” - David Waxman, Co-Founder of Spot Runner
View This Blog	"YuMe is excited to be a partner of Microsoft's in delivering emerging video capabilities that help advertisers reach audiences across multiple platforms, whether it is the TV or PC, and bringing consumers a broader range of entertainment choices for their digital home." - Jayant Kadambi, CEO, YuMe

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