I had the opportunity to meet with Katie Decker, Community Manager for the Esri Startup Program, during the Esri 2019 User Conference. 21 of the more than 400 companies participating in the program from around the world were at the event presenting their solutions and exhibiting their technology.
The program is for companies founded less than three years ago that build software platform-as-a-service products and have less than $1 million in revenue. More than 30 start-ups have graduated after receiving free software, services, support, training, and content for up to three years to help with product development and feature expansion. This gives emerging businesses the tools and data to build mapping and location analytics capabilities into their products.