Under the collaboration, an open innovation framework will be created to mentor and engage with startups to bringtheir innovative solutions to market, the companies in a jointstatement said.
Stating that access to markets and customers remainsone of the biggest challenges for startups in India, it saidthe partnership will provide startups the access to the depthof Microsoft and TCS' networks and relationships acrosscustomers, investors, academia and industry, creating a strongvalue proposition in the enterprise marketplace.