Four startups currently enrolled in Microsoft Ventures' Accelerator Plus initiative are in negotiations to be bought, though no firm announcement is set to be made until graduation later this month.

Four startups currently progressing through the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Plus programme, run by computing company Microsoft, have already begun discussions over acquisition, Microsoft Ventures director Ravi Narayan has told the Economic Times.

Narayan did not reveal the identity of the businesses in question. The deals could be announced later this month when the present batch of startups graduate from the accelerator.

“With the Accelerator Plus Programme we are looking at filling the gap which exists between setting up a start-up…