IIT Bombay, Microsoft tie up to empower startups

The collaboration will help startups get exclusive access to Microsoft’s leadership, industry experts Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVP), Azure Influencers, and startup founders.

Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), the umbrella organisation at IIT Bombay for fostering entrepreneurship and nurturing tech startups, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to support startups. 

The collaboration is in line with the SINE’s vision to provide an environment to translate knowledge and innovation in creating successful entrepreneurs. As part of the collaboration, SINE and Microsoft will explore opportunities that will help startups at SINE avail of benefits of Microsoft software and services, access to GitHub, M365 resources, training and skilling on Azure, along with mentor networks.  

The collaboration will further help startups get exclusive access to Microsoft’s leadership, industry experts Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVP), Azure Influencers, and startup founders. Microsoft and SINE will also work together to select and onboard startups to Founder’s Hub. Select startups also get the opportunity to be a part of the Azure community programme and other ongoing developer campaigns by Microsoft such as the Azure Developer League, Azure Blogathon, Hackathons, Open Hacks, and Imagine Cup. 

Poyni Bhat, Chief Executive Officer, SINE, said, “With more and more focus shifting towards cloud-based technology solutions across different sectors, Microsoft’s history and experience of being the leading global technology giant will surely benefit our startups and we hope they can leverage this partnership to the fullest.” 

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