Is it February already? If you hadn't heard yet, SXSW
Accelerator returns in its fourth edition to showcase
some of the web's most exciting innovations and companies (yours, perhaps?). Read on to brush up on or learn what Accelerator is all about.

SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark is the premier showcase featuring the web's most exciting innovations. This event provides an outlet for companies to present their innovative web-based technologies and services related to music, social networking, health, mobile, news, and entertainment. Companies present to an interested panel of industry experts, early adapters, and representatives from the Venture Capitalist community. This year's panel judges include Rich Barton of Zillow, Chris Shipley of Guidewire, David Rose of Gust, Ben Huh of Cheezburger Network and Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, just to name a few.

Company success stories after participating in SXSW Accelerator include Spredfast getting $1.6M in Series A funding, NutshellMail being acquired by Constant Contact, and Apple's acquiring Siri. Accelerator features product demonstrations by the most ambitious talents in the world with the most creative new ideas to change it (that's you).

We invite you to join us for this incredible event, as we highlight the technology market's most impressive new innovations. Catch a glimpse of the industry's future and to make strong industry connections at SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark on March 12-13 at the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

For more information on Interactive Accelerator, click here, and for more info on Music Accelerator, go here. Click here to attend SXSW Accelerator Presented by Microsoft BizSpark. We hope to see you there!!

Contributed by Adam Price, logo design by Sean Simons