We are back with "Techcircle Startup 2015" on 22nd April in Bengaluru, part of the second edition of Techcircle Tri-series initiative. (We will be holding Mumbai and Delhi editions as well during the year).
This is an event to bring together the most happening and disruptive early stage startups in the city, potential investors, angels, seed funds, incubators, accelerators & mentors, and VC funds who are active in the early stage startup scene.
The event sets the stage for a curated set of startups to present themselves in front of an audience comprising of investors, early stage adopters, mentors, potential co-founders and partners. This will be an expanded version of Techcircle Showcase. If you would like to present your startup, write to us at the earliest.
The day will also have several keynotes from experienced entrepreneurs and investors, several panel discussions and interactive sessions.
The day before the event, on April 21, we also bring you our signature Startup Walkabout, a guided tour of the offices of successful VCs and successful entrepreneurs. This gives you a ring side view of how some of these investors pick their startups, and will discuss their investment thesis while in a startup office you get a taste of how they run their fledgling ventures.
You need to register for the event to be eligible for Walkabout session, and it also needs a prior booking of a slot as these sessions get booked out faster. Please note seats are limited for Startup Walkabout.
Catering to startups of all scales & sizes, the event delivers value for startups right from the stage of business plans to a mature product ready to be launched globally.
Be a part of the event if you want to know how starting up and scaling the business intersects with raising capital from right investors. Come, join us at Techcircle Startup 2015 Bengaluru on April 22.
Still have questions, write to us at register@vccircle.com to know more.
Programme
Day I - 21st April
TC Startup Walkabouts - A guided tour of India’s top venture capital funds, leading startups and corporates in Bengaluru for an interactive session with the top management. Here participants will get to meet the team, see how the best companies function, interact and learn more about India’s best entrepreneurship stories and much more. The participants will get to choose two sessions based on the participant’s company and location preference. Seats are limited, hence book your slots in advance with Sandeep/ Krishna at register@vccircle.com or 0120-4171111
| 21st April (11:00am-12:00pm) | 21st April (2:00pm-3:00pm) |
| I. InMobi Technologies Pvt. Ltd (Closed) 7th Floor, Block Delta, B Block Embassy Tech Square, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Outer Ring Road, Varthur, Hobli, Bengaluru 56010 |
I. CommonFloor.com (Closed) MaxHeap Technologies (P) Ltd, 7th Floor, Tower B, Diamond District, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru |
| II. Mu Sigma (Closed) 13th Floor, 14th Level, Aviator Building Ascendas - ITPB SEZ, Whitefield road, Bangalore - 560066 |
II. Urban Ladder (Closed) No. 65, Kishon Decor, Kartik Nagar, Marathahalli, Opp CCD, Bengaluru |
| III. IDG Ventures India (Closed) 7B, 7th Floor, Sobha Pearl, 1, Commissariat Road, Bangalore 560 025 |
Day II - 22nd April
8:15am - 9:30am
Tea, Networking & Registration
9:30am - 09:45am
Introductory Note
09:45am - 10:30am
Techcircle Insights I: Decoding valuations from angel to late stage Venture Capital funding
What drives investors in various industries and myths involved.
Arun Menon - Founder and CEO, AppsDaily Solutions Pvt Ltd (Onward Mobility)
Surjendu Kuila - Co-founder, Zopper.com
Shripal Gandhi - Founder & CEO, Swipe Telecom India Pvt. Ltd
Vikram Gupta - Founder & Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures
Deepesh Garg - MD, o3 Capital (Moderator)
10:30am - 11:15am
In conversation with
Kunal Shah - Founder, FreeCharge.in
Raghunandan G - Co-founder, TaxiForSure.com
Sahad P.V - Founder & Editor, The VCCircle Network
11:15am - 11:45pm
Tea & Networking Break
11:45am - 12:30pm
Techcircle Insights II: Are VC's disguising as Angels?
- Writing down pocket-sized cheque, raising smaller round of funding, crowding over angels and what more?
Sai Srinivas Kiran G - Co-Founder & CEO, Teewe
Anu Acharya - Founder & CEO, Mapmygenome
Rahul Khanna - Managing Partner, Trifecta Capital
Deepak Gupta - Partner, Equity Crest
Ravi Gururaj - Chairman & Co-Founder, Frictionless Ventures (Moderator)
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Presentation: By Samarth Kholkar - Cloud Ecosystem Sales Leader,IBM India/SA
12:45pm - 2:00pm
Lunch & Networking
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Techcircle Insights III: Ecomm 3.0
Vertical Ecommerce, Market Places, Service Ecommerce, Enablers & associated opportunities.
Raghav Gupta - Country Manager – India, BlaBlaCar
Ritesh Agarwal - Founder and CEO, Oyorooms.com
Sameer Parwani - CEO & Founder, CouponDunia
Badri Sanjeevi- CEO, Mauj Mobile; Group CFO, People Group
Swati Gupta - Founder, Industrybuying.com
Sanjay Nath - Co Founder & Managing Director, Blume Ventures (Moderator)
2:45pm - 3:30pm
Techcircle Insights IV: Food Services Startups: The next big thing in consumer internet
Saurabh Kochhar - CEO, Foodpanda
Tapan Kumar Das - CEO, iTiffin.in
Prayank Swaroop - VP, Accel Partners
Parag Dhol - Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners (Moderator)
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Tea & Networking
4:00pm - 4:45pm
Techcircle Insights V: Founders Balancing Act
Managing & retaining skilled talent, founders’ disharmony, ESOPS, team building, negotiations & execution while building pro-employee & conducive working environment.
Azhar Iqubal - Co-founder, News In Shorts
Tarun Mehta - Co-founder, Ather Energy
Prasad Ankit - CEO & Co-founder, Bobble App / Touchtalent
Will Poole - Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Unitus Seed Fund (Moderator)
4:45 pm -5:15pm
Techcircle Showcase- Powered by Nasscom 10K Startups
A curated platform that brings a set of handpicked innovative startups to make an elevator pitch to select jury of angel investors, houseful of VCs & fellow entrepreneurs. Watch out for innovative business ideas & models pursued by emerging entrepreneurs.
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services - now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Cloud services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Australia and China.
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IBM has been present in India since 1951. Since inception, IBM in India has expanded its operations considerably with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in over 22 cities including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.
Our offerings: IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end solutions to customers from hardware to software, services and consulting.
IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues. IBM helps integrate the strategy, business process, industry knowledge and the technology, integration and outsourcing skills to bring a new level of services to the business community. We deliver innovative business consulting, process design, systems integration, application management and design. Our core competencies include deep business process and industry expertise, advanced analytics and research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge, and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions that deliver bottom-line business value.
For more information on IBM India log on to: www.ibm.com/in
IBM has been present in India since 1951. Since inception, IBM in India has expanded its operations considerably with regional headquarters in Bangalore and offices in over 22 cities including regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry.
Our offerings: IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end solutions to customers from hardware to software, services and consulting.
IBM helps clients solve complex business and technical issues. IBM helps integrate the strategy, business process, industry knowledge and the technology, integration and outsourcing skills to bring a new level of services to the business community. We deliver innovative business consulting, process design, systems integration, application management and design. Our core competencies include deep business process and industry expertise, advanced analytics and research capabilities, comprehensive IT infrastructure knowledge, and the proven ability to implement enterprise solutions that deliver bottom-line business value.
For more information on IBM India log on to: www.ibm.com/in
Mauj Mobile (www.mauj.com) is a mobile media company with leadership in content and app marketplaces. With over 20mn monthly unique users, Mauj is one of the fastest growing mobile companies in India. Mauj has interests in two key verticals - entertainment and edutainment. In entertainment, the company operates Mobango (www.mobango.com), which is one of the largest independent appstore in the world for free apps, games and videos. In edutainment, Mauj runs Appystore.in (www.appystore.in) which provides subscription based curated content for kids up to 7 years of age. Mauj Mobile is a recognized company with awards such as Red Herring and mBillionth Awards for Innovation. Mauj Mobile is part of People Group, which also owns leading brands such as Shaadi.com and Makaan.com, and has made investments in over 50 startups.
Multi Recruit are pioneers in Fixed Cost Recruitment Services with plans starting as low as Rs.3,999. We work on a very progressive campaign based recruitment model and NOT on percentage-based Commission model nor based on the number of candidates that you hire through us for a specific profile.
This is a fixed fee prepaid service and we welcome any vacancy in any sector and in any location. We have 6 Recruitment Plans - Starter, Lite, Lite+, Premium, Premium + and Superb, you can hire multiple candidates from all campaigns.
Overview of our services are as below:
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• Telephone interview screening of the relevant candidates
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• Guaranteed hire
• Reference checks
Multi Recruit Advantage:
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Guaranteed hire or 50% money back (Premium, Premium + and Superb)
Giftxoxo.com is a curated experience provider which firmly believes in creating memories and moments that one would cherish for a lifetime. Giftxoxo is a curated marketplace of unique Experiences in India. Incepted in 2012, Giftxoxo.com introduced an innovative concept of offering Experiences in India and as of today has the largest collection of such extraordinary Experiences spreading across 6 categories - Adventure, Gourmet, Health & Wellness, Tours& Getaways, Arts & Learning and Philanthropy. Some examples are a Microlight plane flying, a Bollywood film tour, a Horse riding session, Yacht dining, Pottery class and more.
Each of the 2000+ Experiences is hand-picked from the best and most trusted brands. Curation of experiences is done very meticulously with lot of background research and analysis. Various factors like place prominence, people perception, safety, uniqueness, exclusivity, value for money etc. are taken into consideration while creating Experiences. Team Giftxoxo keeps on hunting for interesting places in various cities, from restaurants to flight simulators, from eccentric to opulent, and work with them to create Experiences that are too incredible to forget. With its unique proposition of providing curated Experiences, Giftxoxo works with over 400 corporate clients and 22000+ B2C customers across India making their special days even more special. We also have tie ups with more than 300 brands (Offline + Online) for their Gift vouchers.
10,000 Startups is an ambitious attempt by NASSCOM to scale up the startup ecosystem in India by 10x. 10,000 Startups aims to enable incubation, funding and support for 10,000 technology startups in India over the next ten years.
The program’s vision is to:
• Foster entrepreneurship
• Build entrepreneurial capabilities at scale and
• Strengthen early stage support for tech startups
To meet these objective the program aims to bring together key stakeholders of the ecosystem including startup incubators / accelerators, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup support groups, mentors and technology corporations.
With 10,000 Start-ups NASSCOM aims to build a vibrant ecosystem for technology entrepreneurship in India.
VCC Events opens up the avenues for participation. Join hands to be a part of India’s largest gathering of alternative investments leaders, industry stakeholders and Asia’s influential limited partners, general partners and marquee advisors. Your chance to actively participate and augment yourself as thought leaders.
Park Plaza, Bangalore
Date: 22nd April
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