Healthcare Startups: Piramal Prize 2010

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Snigdha Sengupta

Some news for healthcare entrepreneurs. The Piramal Prize 2010 is inviting applications from high-impact business models and ideas that address India’s healthcare crisis. There are two categories — emerging ventures and established organizations. The winner in the emerging ventures category, who must be less than three years old, will receive structured funding worth Rs 10 lakh and additional support such…

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Proto.in Founder Launches (Quasi) Startup Incubator

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Snigdha Sengupta

This is probably a mere coincidence, but it is an interesting one. The Startup Guy, Vijay Anand, has just unveiled a new venture. He calls it The Startup Centre, an initiative that aims to create a physical community centre for entrepreneurs and the associated universe. Anand dubs it the ‘open incubation model’. Some may recall that around June last year,…

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HeadStart Ventures to Plug Funding Gap with Angel Fund

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Snigdha Sengupta

When Kallol Borah wrote in last week to introduce his latest venture, HeadStart Ventures, I was a bit confused. Borah also happens to be a co-founder of the HeadStart Network Foundation, a not-for-profit entity which hosts the popular startup showcase event HeadStart. The two, it turns out, are not related and there is some acrimony brewing on that front. But…

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Proto.in, HeadStart 2009: You can attend both!

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Snigdha Sengupta

Now why do perfectly nice people have to get cocky and spoil it all? The organizers of Proto.in, which hosts its next edition on January 23 and 24 in Bangalore, have come up with a feature called PitchCamp! — “Learn the inside scoop on how VCs (venture capitalists), corporate partners and journalists think.” writes Proto.in curator Vijay Anand. Impressed that…

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Busy Buzzing Week

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Snigdha Sengupta

My head is spinning with all the activity that has been happening this week around startup networking. The event I have been most clued into is Headstart in Bangalore. Arpit has been blogging away non-stop on it and Aditya has been sending in entertaining Twitter notifications. Catch his updates here. Haven’t heard much on Proto, which is also currently underway….

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HeadStart: Consumer Services Session

Posted on January 18, 2008 by StartupCentral

We had the panel discussion on consumer services this morning. It saw some key features of Internet and mobile based consumer industry being discussed. Here are some sound bytes from the panelists: Sateesh Andra, venture partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson: “When it comes to monetization, you need to have a clear answer – what, when, how much. Just saying we will…

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[Guest Post] HeadStart web startups demo

Posted on January 18, 2008 by StartupCentral

We just had the first session of demos at Headstart. This saw the latest technology from Internet based companies such as Alabot, Proficio, MobiSolv, SneakCast and 90 degrees Internet: Alabot: The next time you are chatting with a chat-based support, you can never be sure if you are actually talking to a human sitting anywhere in the planet. Alabot has…

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Headstart Kicks Off With IBM Case Study

Posted on January 18, 2008 by StartupCentral

Headstart-Compute 2008 has just begun with a bang. It is looking all set for an exciting three days ahead. It started off with an introduction to ACM Bangalore by Muralikrishna Gandhi, chairperson, ACM Bangalore and an enthusiastic introduction to Kickstart and setting the perspective straight for Headstart. As a startup, you should be looking forward to Startup Saturday coming up…

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Crowded January

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Snigdha Sengupta

A few start-up networking events that are a must-attend this month: Headstart takes off on January 18-20 in Bangalore’s IISc. This is a place to showcase innovation in products and technology. The website promises networking with venture capitalists. Folks such as Ram Shriram from Sherpalo Ventures and Alok Mittal from Canaan Partners are expected to be around. Proto.in, now the…

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