Citrix Startup Accelerator
4555 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Overview
Citrix Startup Accelerator offers seed funding for passionate entrepreneurs who have great ideas for the development of new technologies and business models around cloud, mobile and collaboration. The Citrix Startup Accelerator offers: * Seed funding ($250k) * An entrepreneur-friendly environment with access to the global Citrix ecosystem. * An open and interactive accelerator facility in Silicon Valley that offers mentoring from successful entrepreneurs, Citrix executives, and partners.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- FinTech
Investment portfolio
- Tylr Mobile
Participated · Seed · Apr 2013
Tylr Mobile’s initial product, WorkinBox, is an iPhone mobile inbox designed for salespeople that integrates email with Salesforce CRM. The company plans future integrations with personal and professional calendars and marketing automation tools to broaden workflow context. Tylr emphasizes design and usability to surface CRM actions and reminders directly from email, improving productivity on smartphones and tablets. The startup was founded in 2012, is based in San Francisco, and demoed its product at DEMO Mobile. Tylr is testing WorkinBox with a handful of beta customers, including Marketo. Its go-to-market model is to offer a free trial and then upsell larger customers.
- Armor5
Participated · Seed · Feb 2013
Armor5 is a Santa Clara, CA–based cloud service founded in 2011 by former executives from Adobe, Motorola and Yahoo and led by CEO Suresh Balasubramanian. The company connects to a customer’s network via VPN, virtualizes intranet data and cloud applications, and generates a secure URL that mobile workers can use to access content and applications from any device. Its cloud-based dashboard allows IT to monitor and manage end-users, devices and documents and to enforce BYOD policies and compliance standards. On Feb. 27, 2013 Armor5 raised $2M in seed funding. The round’s investors were Citrix Startup Accelerator, Nexus Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures. No revenue or user metrics and no prior rounds were disclosed in the article.
- AppEnsure
Led · Seed · Oct 2012
AppEnsure provides an Application Performance Management (APM) platform that delivers end-to-end visibility of IT topology and data flows to ensure application performance in virtualized and cloud environments. The technology is positioned to give IT the means to predictably manage operations, control SLAs, and deliver required performance for business-critical applications. AppEnsure emphasizes "application performance insurance" for dynamic virtualized and cloud computing environments. The company gave its first public product demonstration at DEMO 2012 and plans to deliver its first fully integrated product to customers. AppEnsure was selected by a panel during the Startup.Synergy Challenge and received strategic support and resources through the Citrix Startup Accelerator. CEO and founder Colin L.M. Macnab said the investment and Citrix's strategic help will enable the company to introduce the product to customers.
Team
No current team members are available.