Mumbai-based startup accelerator VentureNursery has signed up 12 angel investors for its charter angels programme, who will provide mentoring support to the startups that participate in the accelerator’s upcoming 13-week bootcamp. The startups will also have an opportunity to pitch for funding to these charter angels when they graduate from the bootcamp. The 12 angels [...]
Ravi Kiran and Shravan Shroff-backed startup accelerator VentureNursery has received more than 120 applications from startups teams, originating from 17 cities including Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and even from as far as Imphal and Patna. Applications were being accepted between April 1 and April 23. The final shortlist of between five and eight applicants who will [...]
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Inception 2012, the business plan contest organized by Pathfinder E-Cell at K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, concluded on Saturday evening. The contest attracted business plans from over 70 student entrepreneur teams, out of which five made it to the finals. On Saturday, the five finalists pitched their business plans to an [...]
Founders of ecommerce companies based in Mumbai got together on Saturday to share their experiences building businesses, the challenges they face and what each of them is doing to address them. The informal meetup, which ended with some excellent wraps from Faasos, a Mumbai-based fast-food startup chain, was organized by Anand Lunia, executive director at [...]
Virtual incubator L-pad, which concluded its first Startup Garage event in Pune early this month, is now bringing the initiative to Mumbai and Bangalore. The event brings together founders and potential founders of startup companies for ideas brainstorming sessions spread over three days. The objective at the end is to come up with prototypes of [...]
Startupcentral Beer Fridays: The Rise of eCommerce – Opportunities and Challnges concluded last Friday. Our panelists were Rahul Yadav, Scopial Fashions; Vikhyat Srivastava, Groffr; Sailesh Lakhani, Sequoia Capital; Samuel Ziza, Witty Gift; and Jiby Thomas, Quikr. Thanks to all the panelists for making time for the round table. Videos coming up soon. Here are the [...]
Watch the concluding part of the series on bootstrapping where startup founders share the lowest point so far in their entrepreneurial journey. Panelists: Rushabh Mehta, ERPNext; Himanshu Mody, Tekno Point Multimedia; Titash Neogi, Bibkosh; Sujay Nair, Enigma Interactive; Aditi Nair, Potentials and Possibilities; Mitesh Ashar, Digital Canvas. Panelists’ profiles here. A special note of thanks [...]
IIT Bombay’s E-Summit 2011 comes up on February 6th. Notable events at the summit include a Business Mentoring Hub, where raw ideas will be mentored by a panel of six from the Indian corporate sector, and a startup showcase called Startup Expo. And of course, the finalists of Eureka! 2010 will be announced and awarded [...]
Seedcamp, a programme that started out as an initiative to help jumpstart entrepreneurs in Europe, debuts in India on December 4 with the Mumbai Mini Seedcamp. This will be a one-day event and 20 seed stage technology startups will get an opportunity to brainstorm with experienced entrepreneurs, investors and developers from across Asia and Europe. [...]
Eureka! 2010 is here. This is an event that needs no introduction. For the record, it is Asia’s largest and longest-running business plan contest. It is focused primarily on students (though it is also open to working professionals) and is organized every year by the IIT-Bombay Entrepreneurship Cell. Here are the salient details of the [...]
Accelerator to angel to VC flow still struggling to find equilibrium in India
I had fun moderating the panel on early stage financing at India Internet Day. VCCircle has an interesting article. The key issues are as under: 1. Too few deals are progressing from accelerators to angel, and from angel to Series A. Only five per cent of deals going from accelerators to Series A might not [...]
The early ecommerce marketplace pioneers: eBay class of 2000-2005
TechCrunch recently published an article I wrote about how the eBay class of 2000-2005 helped shape ecommerce in Silicon Valley and continues to innovate and move the sector forward. By understanding what shaped this class’ experience and examining where these alums are today, we identified the most important industry trends and start to see a [...]
The founder’s guide to surviving the Series A crunch
The Indian entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem is fast maturing. Today we have more early stage funds than ever. This fund availability will only improve, aside from the temporary blips caused due to macroeconomic ups and downs. We are in one such ‘crunch’ today, where even though seed and angel funds are writing cheques with [...]
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