Microsoft, ISRO Partner to Support Space Technology Startups in India: All Details

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Microsoft connected Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to substance the maturation of abstraction exertion start-ups successful India. The MoU seeks to empower abstraction tech start-ups crossed the state with exertion tools and platforms, go-to-market enactment and mentoring to assistance them standard and go enterprise-ready.

This collaboration has travel astatine a clip erstwhile Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella is successful the metropolis to instrumentality portion successful Microsoft Future Ready Technology Summit . The collaboration seeks to fortify ISRO's imaginativeness of harnessing the marketplace imaginable of the astir promising abstraction tech innovators and entrepreneurs successful India, Microsoft said successful a release.

Through this tie-up, the abstraction tech start-ups identified by ISRO volition beryllium onboarded onto the 'Microsoft for Start-ups Founders Hub platform', that supports start-ups astatine each signifier of their travel from thought to unicorn, it said.

Noting that done the hub, space-tech start-up founders successful India volition person escaped entree to the tech tools and resources they request to physique and tally their business, the merchandise further said, this includes method enactment to physique and standard connected Azure, best-in-class developer and productivity tools including GitHub Enterprise, Visual Studio Enterprise and Microsoft 365 and entree to astute analytics with Power BI and Dynamics 365.

ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the abstraction agency's collaboration with Microsoft volition greatly payment abstraction tech start-ups successful their investigation and processing of immense amounts of outer information for assorted applications, utilizing cutting-edge methods similar AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

"The Microsoft for Start-ups Founders Hub is simply a utile level for bringing unneurotic start-ups and providers of exertion solutions to enactment the nationalist abstraction exertion ecosystem. We are pleased to enactment unneurotic to assistance and enactment entrepreneurs, to in-turn payment the Indian system arsenic a whole," helium said.

Beyond entree to technology, Microsoft volition supply mentoring enactment to abstraction tech entrepreneurs successful areas ranging from abstraction engineering to unreality technologies, merchandise and design, fund-raising and income and marketing.

In addition, founders volition person entree to Microsoft Learn for tailored start-up-centric grooming contented and programmes to assistance them physique connections with the manufacture and imaginable customers.

"Space tech start-ups successful India are playing a important relation successful advancing the country's abstraction capabilities with the powerfulness of technology. We are pleased to collaborate with ISRO to accelerate this translation of what's imaginable successful space. Through our exertion tools, platforms and mentorship opportunities, we are profoundly committed to empowering abstraction tech start-ups successful the state to thrust cutting-edge innovation and accelerate technological discovery," Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari said.

Microsoft and ISRO volition besides jointly organise knowledge-sharing and thought enactment sessions for the start-ups with abstraction manufacture experts. In addition, the collaboration volition enactment founders with go-to-market strategies, method enactment and opportunities to merchantability their solutions via Microsoft channels and marketplace, the merchandise said.

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