Overview
9:15am - 9:25am
Introduction Note
Sahad P.V. – Founder & Editor, VCCircle
9:25am - 10:25am
Panel: Raising Angel Funding: Is Your Business Strategy In Place?
With an increase in activity in the angel fundraising space, investors now are increasingly focusing on entrepreneurs with innovative and sustainable business ideas, backed by high execution capabilities, adoption of efficient systems and processes and some clarity on a healthy bottomline for the company. Investors today are also stressing on ethics and transparency as important fundamentals for businesses. What does it take to raise funding from these investors today? How do angels differentiate between entrepreneurs? Find out from the angels themselves.
Pradeep Gupta, Chairman & MD, CyberMedia India Ltd. (Moderator)
Sanjay Nath, Managing Partner, Blume Ventures
Anand Jhaveri, Founder & CEO, Rave Technologies
Sunil Kalra, Angel Investor
10:25am - 10:55am
Entrepreneur Insights: Pivoting Your Business Model & Sync-ing It With The Largest Market Opportunity
Kunal Bahl, Founder & CEO, Snapdeal
10:55am - 11:10am
Networking Break
11:10am - 11:40am
Entrepreneur Insights: Choosing The Right Investor For Your Company
With a rise in angels in India, choosing the right investor with the right background, in addition to capital supply, company is becoming even more important. How to identify the right investor for your sector/industry? How to choose the right board? Working with the angel investor and leveraging their resources.
Kartik Varma, Co-Founder, Proptiger
11:40am - 1:10pm
VCCircle Angel Lounge
One-to-one interaction, similar to speed dating, with India's topmost angel investors at a special structured session, VCCircle Lounge. This is session is limited to select 10 companies and investors.
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch & Networking
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Panel: Building Companies With India's Startup Accelerators
Sameer Guglani, Co-founder, The Morpheus (Moderator)
Pranay Gupta, Joint CEO, iAccelerator, CIIE
Anupama Arya, Co-Founder, The Hatch
Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner, AngelPrime
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Entrepreneur Insights: Maintaining High Product Quality While Your Company Scales Up
Amol Arora, MD, Shemrock
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Networking Break
3:30pm – 4:15pm
Panel: Preparing Your Company For Your 1st Institutional / Venture Capital Funding
Rahul Khanna, Managing Director, Canaan Partners (Moderator)
Bhavish Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO, Olacabs
Swapnil Srivastava, Founder & CEO, Vriti Infocom
Ambarish Gupta, Founder & CEO, Knowlarity Communications
4:15pm - 4:45pm
Entrepreneur Insights: When Is The Right Time For An Entrepreneur To Start-up
Bijaei Jayaraj, Loylty Rewardz
4:45pm – 4:55pm
Concluding Remarks