Besides being called the Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru as a city has much more to offer in terms of business environment, demographics, vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem, flourishing industries, splurging real estate amongst others, making it a preferred investment destination for leading private equity and venture capital investors. With this buoyant business environment Bengaluru has emerged as one of the leading destination for India’s largest tech and non-tech houses.
To identify emerging businesses & opportunities beyond technology that separates Bengaluru from the rest, VCCircle presents its seventh annual investment forum in Bengaluru. The conference titled - VCCircle Bengaluru Investment Summit 2015 will bring together South India's top entrepreneurs, CEOs, emerging business owners, investors, and professionals from businesses across sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, consumer, financial services, real estate, infrastructure and others, besides technology.
The summit aims to address the following key topics:-
- Mapping entrepreneurial activities & investment trends in Bengaluru
- Bengaluru as a hub for healthcare products & services
- Growing appetite for food services business in Bengaluru
- Deep dive into Bengaluru's Real Estate market
- Opportunities creating businesses serving the underserved
- Bengaluru’s emerging entrepreneurial club: Creating products & services with global appeal
8:30am - 9:45am
Tea, Networking & Registration
9:45am - 10:00am
Introductory Note
10:00am - 10:45am
Panel I: Mapping entrepreneurial activities & investment trends in Bengaluru
Today, this modern southern city of India is looked upon as an ideal destination for scores of aspiring entrepreneurs coming with their dream to start their ambitious venture, for emerging enterprises serving to niche business opportunities, to leading home grown enterprises with global repute. What has attracted talent from all the corners of the world to set up their base in the city? What advantages does an investor have while investing in Bengaluru vis-à-vis other cities? For a country that has so many loopholes in the regulatory framework, how favourable are the regulatory policies in the city to pull in significant foreign investments? Besides IT, which are the other shining sectors & most loved companies from the city that are making their presence felt globally? What are the key entrepreneurial activities & investment trends pointing towards emerging opportunities?
K. Pandia Rajan - Founder, MaFoi Group
Mohan Alexander - Vice Chairman and Co founder, Copal Amba
YS Prabhakar - CEO, Sutures India
Siddhartha Das - General Partner, Ventureast
Kumar Shiralagi - MD, Kalaari Capital Advisors P Ltd (Moderator)
10:45am - 11:15am
Entrepreneurship opportunities in today’s world - what to start?
K Ganesh, Serial Entrepreneur & Partner, GrowthStory.in and Chairman, Portea Medical
11:15am - 11:45am
Tea & Networking
11:45am - 12:30pm
Panel II: Bengaluru as a hub for healthcare products & services
The demand for quality healthcare services and indigenous medical devices/products across the country has witnessed surge in the recent past and continues to grow as we see an inclination towards quality of life, better spending capacity and willingness to adopt preventive healthcare systems. Bengaluru seems to be the technology hub where innovations intersect with healthcare products and have been able to deliver some high quality healthcare products with global appeal. Besides, the city also counts upon some high quality healthcare service providers who’ve set up base here and have been contributing to delivering quality care. As we know consumer-facing, technology enabled healthcare businesses are always a bet for investors, we understand from leading entrepreneurs on what makes them unique and how the ecosystem in Bengaluru supports them in their initiatives?
K Chandrasekhar - Founder & CEO, Forus Health Pvt. Ltd
Mallikarjun Sundaram - Co-founder, President & CEO, Mitra Biotech
Dr Ajay Bakshi - Managing Director & CEO, Manipal Hospitals
Hari Buggana - MD, InvAscent
Siddharth Dhondiyal - Managing Director, India Value Fund Advisors (Moderator)
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Presentation by HSBC
Suvir S Davda - Director Corporate Treasury Sales, Global Markets, HSBC Ltd
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch & Networking
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Panel III: Deep dive into Bengaluru’s real estate market
Besides being ranked as one of the most sought after real estate market, the city’s real estate & infrastructure development in the last couple of years has been commendable and has much to offer to people with cosmopolitan lifestyle & growing business ecosystem? Besides being house to leading multinationals, the city has equally nurtured the startup community and counts upon some leading startup companies that have gone big and are now placing larger bets through their demand for real estate. Be it commercial or residential or value budget offerings, the city has something in store for everyone and is the hot favourite for investors. From a panel of leading real estate CEO’s, we derive some deep insights in this market, what to expect in the near future and how they perceive demand as a driver to high quality real estate in the city? From an investors lens, what this means to them and how are they looking at the market in terms of medium to long term investments?
M Murali - MD, Shriram Properties
Ashwini Kumar - Chief Operating Officer, Nitesh Estates Ltd
Vishal Mirchandani - CEO- Retail & Commercial, Brigade Enterprises Limited
Juggy Marwaha - Managing Director - South India, JLL (Moderator)
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Panel IV: Growing appetite for food services business in Bengaluru
With the change in eating habits, preferences and the urge of trying hands on multi - cuisines, out of home eating has become a natural phenomenon. With burgeoning middle class and cosmopolitan lifestyle of Bengaluru, the city presents a huge opportunities for food services and food related businesses. Be it delivering organic meals for lunches to delivering customized food delivery, consumers are spoilt with choice. Besides fine dining, QSR and ready to eat foods, how are food tech startups disrupting the traditional food market? With multiple startups helping a consumer to discover, order & get food delivered to their door step, what good are they doing to deliver exceptional consumer services? Is investing in a food business, a hot talk in the town for the investors’? How big is this opportunity in Bengaluru & how big can it get overall?
Abhijit Saha - Co-founder, Director & Chef, Caperberry & Fava
Amuleek Singh Bijral - Founder & CEO, Chai Point
Shashaank Shekhar Singhal - Co-founder & CEO, Dazo
Musthafa PC - CEO, iD Fresh Food (India) Pvt. Ltd
Deepak Natraj - MD, Aarin Capital
Bharati Jacob - Founder & Partner, Seedfund (Moderator)
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Tea & Networking
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Panel V: Opportunities in creating businesses serving the underserved
Unlike “India”, Bharat is still largely disconnected from globalization and all efforts are being made to bridge this gap. In order to speed the development & spur economy in the tier II/III areas, how are these impact-focussed businesses using technology to serve the bottom of pyramid? What are the innovative business models being pursued to help basic services reach the underserved in a financially viable way? How difficult it is to create, scale & evaluate the impact of such businesses both socially & financially? Besides addressing to the significant social problems, is the business of serving to the low-income consumers viable & revenue generating? What are emerging opportunities for impact investors & operators trying to revolutionize the under-served space? What are the high-impact technology based innovations witnessed in this affordable products/services segment? How challenging it is to build businesses with narrow margins?
Brahmanand Hegde - MD & CEO, Vistaar Financial Services Pvt. Ltd
Vishwaprasad Alva - Managing Director, Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Eric Savage - Co-founder & CEO, Unitus Capital
Srikrishna Ramamoorthy - Partner, Unitus seed fund
Harish Narasappa - Founder Partner, Samvad Partners (Moderator)
4:30pm - 5:15pm
Panel VI: Bengaluru’s emerging entrepreneurial club: Creating products & services with global appeal
Technology has been the key driver behind innovations and a lot of that has been witnessed in Bengaluru. A flurry of aspiring entrepreneurs are working behind the scenes to disrupt the ecosystem with innovative products, business models, segments and businesses by large. While much has been said about investments, valuations, startup ecosystem in the city, we understand the value this emerging entrepreneurial club is generating for consumers, investors & startup ecosystem. What are the key drivers of growth, innovation and desire to solve simple yet mission critical problems through technology?
Tarun Mehta - Co-founder, Ather Energy
Vamshi Krishna - Co-founder & CEO, Vedantu
Rakesh Kalra - Founder & CEO, UrbanPro.com
Lovaii Navlakhi - Founder and CEO, International Money Matters
Mukul Gulati, MD, Zephyr Peacock (Moderator)
5:15pm - 5:40pm
VCCircle Showcase
Here representatives of exciting and disruptive companies from Bengaluru will make presentations on their business, differentiation, traction, product market opportunity and how they will disrupt existing ecosystem to the houseful of investors & fellow entrepreneurs.
5:40pm onwards
VCCircle Unwind
Continue the energy and networking of the day with more social time with top entrepreneurs and leading investors over cocktails
HSBC in India
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in India offers a full range of banking and financial services through its 50 branches and 140 ATMs across 29 cities.
HSBC is one of India's leading financial services groups, with over 32,000 employees in its banking, investment banking and capital markets, asset management, insurance, software development and global resourcing operations in the country. It is a leading custodian in India, and a leading international bank for individuals and companies with global aspirations, facilitating their needs with presence in 73 countries. The Bank is at the forefront in arranging deals for Indian companies investing overseas and foreign investments into the country. With its extensive reach across Asia, the Americas and Europe, HSBC has the capacity to offer complete banking and financial solutions to India's burgeoning economy. It has also formed a joint venture life insurance company with Canara Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce.
HSBC's network of branches is located at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Lucknow, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Noida, New Delhi, Nashik, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Surat, Thiruvanthapuram, Thane, Vadodara and Visakhapatnam.
The HSBC Group
HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from over 6,100 offices in 73 countries and territories in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,670bn at 31 March 2015, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.
Brigade is a name instantly identified with Bangalore, the city in which it is headquartered. In the area of property development for over 29 years - its flagship domain - Brigade Enterprises Limited has developed many landmark buildings in Bangalore and Mysore.
Today, Brigade is one of the leading real estate development companies primarily focussed on the development of residential, commercial, retail and hospitality properties in South India.
Our commercial properties include the iconic World Trade Center Bangalore (2nd in India & the 1st by a private property developer), software & IT parks and SEZ’s.
Having completed about 5 million sft of commercial space in the last 29 years and another 4 million under various stages of construction, Brigade is now poised to develop about 7 million sft of commercial space in the next 5 years.
So far we have built prestigious buildings in Bangalore and Mysore and have had among the biggest of clients operating from our buildings. It has been Brigade’s philosophy to ensure
• Every project is unique and brings an opportunity to re-define our vision and mission
• Our vision of being world-class reflects in every commercial project
• Providing Strategic Advantage: From locations, to benefits to our tenants and surroundings
• LEED certifications on all new projects
• Every Brigade Commercial project to be a landmark in itself
Incidentally Brigade Group’s first project was a commercial project - Brigade Towers and the tallest building (14 floors) built by a private developer in the city then - in 1986.
Brigade’s flagship project The World Trade Centre Bangalore has won numerous accolades and most importantly won for us the tag of Commercial Developer of the year.
Our projects extend across several major cities in South India: Bangalore, Kochi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Mysore as well as GIFT City in Gujarat.
In its 13th year of operations, International Money Matters Pvt. Ltd. is a financial planning-cum-investment advisory organisation, in the business of helping clients achieve their financial goals. We firmly believe that the ‘Financial Planning’ route is the way forward in advising our clients on their financial matters. This is also advocated by the Financial Planning Standards Board, India which is affiliated to the FPSB, Denver USA. We are committed to this path and have made it mandatory for all our advisors and relationship managers to enroll in the ‘Certified Financial Planner’ programme promoted by the FPSB The pillars of our business are honesty, competence and relationship. We believe that the client’s interest comes foremost, and we stand with him in all matters related to personal finance. Therefore his trust is sacrosanct to us and we ensure that our advice is always unbiased, impartial and objective. We also believe there is no substitute for knowledge and each of us is committed to a path of learning and constant up gradation of our skills; so as to deliver the best in terms of products and services to our clients.
Having been founded as “Money Matters” in 2001 in Bangalore by Lovaii Navlakhi, Money Matters at first used to be an office from his home with a laptop and a client base of 15-20 investors. He added on by 2002, clients in cities other than Bangalore, specially Mumbai, two employees, Shweta Jain and Uday Dhoot, an office by 2003, 100 clients by 2005, a transformation to a private limited company by 2006, another branch office, this time in Delhi by 2007.
Today International Money Matters Pvt.Ltd is a 40 people strong organisation, with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, a client base of 400+ families from across India and the world – US, UK, Middle East and South East Asia. Assets under management of over Rs.500 Crores and a risk cover of Rs.250 Crores, and a belief that it will only get better.
Having being at the helm of affairs always, Lovaii has made sure that his attitude permeates through the entire team at IMMPL and therefore their focus is always on long term relationships, and ensuring that the client’s interest always comes first.
Ethics, Integrity and Expertise are a way of life at IMMPL and perhaps this is how we have been able has been able to create a niche for ourselves in this business of financial advisory.
Samv?d: Partners is a partner-led, solution- oriented law firm. The Firm is committed to providing smart and quality legal advice to our clients; maintaining the highest levels of professional integrity; and nurturing our lawyers in a work environment that motivates them to achieve and maintain the highest standards.
The Partners of the Firm are leaders in their respective fields of practice. The majority of our Partners have a rich mix of domestic and international experience, having worked in several legal and financial capitals around the world, including London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi and the Hague. Our lawyers are truly international, with several being admitted to practice law in India, England & Wales and New York, bringing with them a deep and diverse international perspective.
The Firm provides a full range of services in the mergers and acquisitions space, covering MOU negotiations, legal due diligence reviews and recommendations, transaction documentation drafting, negotiations and deal completion processes as well as post-deal closing oversight of applicable filings. The Firm has significant experience in domestic and cross border (both inbound and outbound) M&A’s including making merger related applications before various courts and regulatory organizations. The members of the Firm have acted for both acquirers as well as target companies. As such, the Firm is able to approach M&A transactions in a holistic and commercially sensitive manner.
With offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi - The Firm has regularly received the highest accolades and ranking from our peers, including recognition in Chambers & Partners and Legal500, over the past few years.
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Vivanta by Taj, Bengaluru
Date: 23rd July 2015
Address: Vivanta by Taj - M G Road, Bangalore,
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Bangalore 560 001 Karnataka
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