Accenture Launches Project Spotlight
Summary
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has launched Project Spotlight, a new engagement and investment program targeting emerging technology software startups to help fill strategic innovation gaps for the Global 2000. Created by six-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur and CEO, Tom Lounibos, the Accenture Ventures managed program will make capital investments and will offer access to the firm’s technology domain expertise and its enterprise clients. Project Spotlight will focus on startups that address areas of largescale strategic importance for Accenture’s enterprise clients including closing the skills gap, data sovereignty, the future of work, edge systems at scale and predictive systems. Startups will co-innovate with Accenture at its Innovation Hubs, Labs and Liquid Studios, working with subject matter experts to adapt their solutions to the enterprise market and scale faster and more effectively. Most recently, Accenture brought SkyHive into a collaboration with Walmart and Unilever as part of an effort catalyzed by the World Economic Forum’s Consumer Industries Taskforce on Future of Work.