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Esri Fosters Industry Innovation with Unique Startup Program
Esri,
the world's leading mapping platform company, continues to foster
industry innovation and development of novel approaches to the world's
most difficult challenges. The company's unique Startup
Program enables the most promising emerging businesses to
incorporate location analytics into their services and solutions. By
providing access to Esri's flagship ArcGIS platform at no cost, selected
startups can leverage new dimensions of data and visualization
capabilities to create breakthrough advancements and deliver truly
innovative products to market that address everything from public safety
to disaster response, legislation to weather impacts on energy sources.
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Esri Startup Program class of 2015 with founder and CEO Jack Dangermond. (Photo: Business Wire)
Created by Esri in 2012 to offer tools and support to help startups
succeed, the free, three year program provides online services,
software, support, and training to kick-start product development.
Companies founded less than three years ago that build software or
platform-as-a-service products and currently generate less than $1
million annually may be eligible to participate in the Esri Startup
Program. Hundreds of startups from around the globe are enrolled.
Featured companies include:
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Mapillary:
By developing a platform which empowers anyone to create their own
street-level imagery using devices they already own, Mapillary is
harnessing the power of crowdsourcing photos. In partnership with
Esri, this company is pioneering new approaches to dynamic map
development for urban planning, transportatin safety, disaster
response, and conservation especially for areas of the world which are
virtually unmapped.
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Echosec:
Echosec's location-first search platform puts social media on the map
- literally. By harnessing real-time knowledge gathered from publicly
available social media posts, this startup is providing public safety,
security, journalism and intelligence professionals with a way to
gather intelligence on a situation as it happens, in the shortest
amount of time.
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Snaptrends:
The company's social media monitoring software empowers organizations
to visualize social conversations by capturing and analyzing social
media content in any specified geographic location automatically. With
a wide range of data analysis features to help users analyze and
understand the collected insights, Snaptrends makes finding data that
matters easy.
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DataCapable:
This startup helps energy companies put social media data to work for
customer service, outage management, and storm impact prediction. By
integrating data from social feeds - including images and video - the
company mines, maps, and analyzes data in real-time allowing utilities
to interpret customer engagement and get a dependable, operational
view of the grid.
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Quorum:
In conjunction with Esri's ArcGIS platform, Quorum has developed the
world's most comprehensive database of legislative information. By
establishing a centralized location for all legislative information,
Quorum helps users make sense of the data, use it to identify
legislators whose constituents might be most affected by a particular
policy, and demonstrate their impact to lawmakers.
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Vricon:
Vricon is working to make high resolution, accurate 3D data available
at global scale. Unlike traditional solutions that produce cumbersome
datasets, Vricon's automated image processing technology, coupled with
the world's largest archive of high-resolution commercial satellite
imagery, delivers 3D production that is fast and scalable.
Esri Startup Program members also gain access to Esri's global community
of over 350,000 clients and more than 3,500 Esri employees and each
member joins as an emerging partner in the Esri Partner Network (EPN)
which consists of more than 2,000 partners worldwide. In addition, the
program includes opportunities for co-marketing and networking with
industry experts at events such as the upcoming Esri User Conference.
For more information or to apply to be a member of the Esri Startup
Program please visit www.esri.com/startups.
About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to
think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri
software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including
each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national
governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more
than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more
than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers,
provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri
is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for
desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.
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