April 18th was a special day for 17 tech companies from across North America. These small and growing businesses graduated from Salesforce Accelerate, a three-month virtual program designed to provide insights, access to technology, and support for startups. During this program, they also learned how to best align with Salesforce and accelerate their time-to-market with AppExchange.  
 

It’s hard to believe it’s already been three months since we kicked off this fast-paced program. Our focused participants powered through more than 50 sessions — online and in-person — learning from more than 60 speakers and advisors from within Salesforce and beyond (including Stan Dunlap, our SVP of Rewards and Mobility, Parker Harris, our co-founder, and Elizabeth Pinkham, our EVP of Global Real Estate). More than 300 people attended Salesforce Accelerate’s three public events to connect with the program participants, join the fun, and learn from insightful panelists on key topics.

A big congratulations to these 17 graduates of Salesforce Accelerate!

• Pipeline: The Pipeline SaaS platform provides business customers with data science and artificial intelligence designed to stop unconscious bias in the workplace and increase financial performance.

• Digital Onboarding: This TrailheaDX 2017 Dreampitch winner provides banks and credit unions with a fully automated customer onboarding solution that is more efficient and effective than traditional phone calls, emails, direct mail, etc.

• Contract Wrangler: Downloadable cloud-based software for analyzing, interpreting, managing, and implementing contracts.

• Hyp3r: A real-time, location-based engagement platform that makes it easy for businesses to engage influential customers on a personal level through social media. Fast Company named HYP3R one of 2018’s Most Innovative Companies in social media.

• Clutch: Clutch is a Customer Marketing Platform that centralizes customer data and empowers modern marketers to deliver personalized experiences across all marketing channels.

• Relativity6: Relativity6's technology fuses it’s customer data with open source intelligence to help customers discover the most effective ways to reactivate lapsed customers.

• Elliot: Elliot expedites integrations by providing a single API for all sales channels and supporting backend systems.

• Statflo: Statflo is the sales acceleration platform for retail, one that drives more transactions by creating the best 1:1 customer journey.

• ICO Group: ICO Group combines consulting, design, engineering, supply, and support to bring ideas to market timely and effectively.

• Comity Design: Comity Design helps companies develop their AppExchange solution. They were a key support for this program.

• LiveData: LiveData helps healthcare providers manage the dynamic environment of the perioperative suite to improve patient safety, increase efficiency, optimize utilization, and enhance patient and staff satisfaction.

• Higi: Higi helps customers track their numbers to be healthier. They make it easy to share information with a trusted doctor or healthcare provider.

• Aktana: Using data-driven suggestions and insights, Aktana empowers life science sales and marketing teams to provide beneficial information to the physicians they serve.

• Medyear: Medyear's world-class engineering makes accessing medical records easy and simple. From most hospital portals, send records to a Medyear address. Or, from the Medyear app, request medical records directly from any of the 700,000 doctors in their directory.

• Geneia: Geneia is a healthcare analytic solutions and services company that helps improve outcomes, lower cost, and restore the joy of medicine to physician practice. They simplify the evolution to value-based care and drive collaboration between health plans, providers, and employers.

• Health Hero: Health Hero provides smart, multi-channel, and integrated health engagement experiences delivered by text, voice, and chatbots.

• FitBliss: The FitBliss platform socially connects employees, fitness wearable devices, and intelligent health coaching on one platform to improve health and productivity outcomes.

We are so proud of the hard work this group put into building the next generation of innovative apps, and honored that they picked Salesforce as their partner of choice. We're excited to see the amazing accomplishments they’ll achieve as they join the Salesforce ecosystem. Cheers to a bright future!

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