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Nukona, a start up focused on mobile app management, was just acquired by Symantec last week. Nukona was one of the first startups in the Citrix Startup Accelerator.
The Citrix Startup Accelerator takes early stage startups with a focus on enterprise and not necessarily integrated with the Citrix platform. In addition to monetary backing Citrix provides the accelerator companies with office space near their Santa Clara headquarters, mentorship and access to the Citrix customer base.
They also give the accelerator companies access to Citrix executives, networking opportunities and access to vendor partners like Symantec who can be instrumental in a companies next round of financing.
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“It takes a community to help ideas grow and bloom into successful businesses,” Nukona founder and chief executive Chris Perrett told VentureBeat. Citrix helped provide that community, Perrett said, as well as “social credibility” that gave the startup a leg up in securing business deals.
Nukona joined the accelerator in July of 2011 and spent just 9 months in the program before being acquired by Symantec. They were in the first class of twelve start up companies in this first year of the Citrix Startup Accelerator. Each company received a seed investment from Citrix between $100,000 and $400,000 and the other benefits outlined above.
Citrix is currently looking for their next class of startup companies. If your startup is interested click here to apply.
source: VB
