by shadma shaikh bengaluru us retailer target corporation announced its fourth batch of startups for its accelerator programme through which it mentors startups that work in tandem with the retail space relevant to targets business while the earlier batches focused on themes around retail including personalisation search and omnichannel evolution the scope of programme for the fourth batch is broadened to cover the growing wellness sector along with the internet of things iot and technology space in retail the startups include preksh which leverages visual merchandising in stores to create better online experience mintm an instore customer engagement platform uncanny vision a computer vision processing platform lechal an interactive haptic footwear and lawbot which is an automated platform that analyzes legal contracts our sustained effort to tap into indias innovation potential has led to the success of our accelerator program said navneet kapoor president and managing director target india the fourth batch also includes two internal teamsa versus c which provides tools to analyze online shopping cart abandonment behaviour and hashtag shopping to enable shopping on social media through conversational commerce were excited to have this latest batch focus on potentially gamechanging technologies as well as areas of opportunities for target like wellness and iot kapoor said the accelerator in bengaluru was launched in february 2014 and has completed three branches of startup accelerator programme since some of the startups that were a part of their earlier batches include findmeashoecom bugclipper whodat spaces and twiddly et bureau published on apr 20 2016 at 0112 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app bengaluru target corporation navneet kapoor mintm preksh homenewstarget india kickstarts fourth batch of startup accelerator programme