{"id":6676,"date":"2013-01-01T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2013-01-02T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:40:29","slug":"kerala-start-up-mindhelix-technosol-selected-for-us-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-start-up-mindhelix-technosol-selected-for-us-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Start-up MindHelix Technosol selected for US programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MindHelix Technosol a student start up from the <a title=\"US Entrepreneur to set up Startup School in Kerala\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/us-entrepreneur-to-set-up-startup-school-in-kerala\/\" target=\"_blank\">Start-up Village<\/a>, Kochi has been selected for the American based \u2018<strong>Alchemist Accelerator Programme<\/strong>\u2019 for its enterprise product start-ups. This is the first time a start-up from Kerala to get selected for such a programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindhelix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MindHelix Technosol<\/a> has been selected for its cloud computing-based customer interaction application called \u2018TukTuk meter\u2019, a GPS-based auto fare calculator. Alchemist Accelerator Programme is based in Menlo Park, San Francisco (Silicon Valley). The accelerator runs a programme for six months incubating 12 enterprise start-ups and MindHelix is the only international one in the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a proud moment for entrepreneurs from Kerala. MindHelix\u2019s achievement clearly shows that Indian start-ups are truly global and can compete with the ones in the US,\u201d said Startup Village chief mentor and Infosys executive co-chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan.<\/p>\n<p>The accelerator provides $30,000 USD in total for funding the start-ups and provides them the opportunity to display their products to \u2018Fortune 100 companies\u2019 in the US. Mentors like Ravi Belani of Stanford University, Sean Ellis from Dropbox, Kris Duggan of Badgeville, Peter Levine of Xensource and Adam Pisoni of Yammer will educate these start-ups on various sectors such as fund-raising, sales and marketing and establishing their product in the American market.<\/p>\n<p>MindHelix first product was done for Delhi Police, called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delhipolice.nic.in\/home\/indexCAL8MKCL.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Know Your Police Station<\/a>&#8216; a public portal where citizens can connect with the police. They have also launched a variety of apps which include Cocktail King, Puzzle Game, Multi Text and Sentinel Personal Security. These apps are available for download both on Android and iOS platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MindHelix Technosol a student start up from the Start-up Village, Kochi has been selected for the American based \u2018Alchemist Accelerator Programme\u2019 for its enterprise product start-ups. This is the first time a start-up from Kerala to get selected for such a programme. MindHelix Technosol has been selected for its cloud computing-based customer interaction application called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,163,5],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}