Our Sponsors and Partners

PSA

PSA, with offices in New Delhi and Chennai, is a solution-driven, pragmatic business law firm that delivers high-quality work, with responsiveness and client commitment as its hallmark. Be it start-ups, or large conglomerates with global footprints, the firm provides high-quality legal services in a timely and a cost-effective manner. The firm has a proven track record for innovation and has, over the years, advised domestic as well as international companies across a wide range of sectors and practice areas. One of the greatest assets offered by PSA is legal expertise combined with the business knowledge of its lawyers. Our USP is to ensure that advice is definitive, structured yet simplified so that clients are able to navigate easily through the maze of different central and state laws applicable to their businesses. The firm’s core competencies are corporate, commercial law, cross-border transactions, private equity and venture capital, intellectual property, labor laws, innovative technology issues, regulatory and compliance, pre-dispute strategizing and dispute resolution.

Pumpkart.com

Pumpkart.com.pioneered a new concept in the form of an online marketplace for buying and selling domestic and agricultural water pumps of small and big manufacturers. It has a vision to save the buyers from paying high price money for plumbers and other pump dealers who works as a middle man.
 
K S Bhatia, Founder & CEO, Pumpkart.com launched this revolutionary concept in June 2014. The Indian water industry is worth of approximately 25,000 crores with 30% of unorganized market figures and offers huge opportunities to make this industry an organized one.
 
The company aims to take all the pump manufacturer and sellers on a single platform. It has a wide range of domestic pumps, agriculture pumps, submersible pumps, solar pumps and many more. For the portfolio extension, it is also adding products and sellers as per the customers demand. It is also working on the ideas to provide services and installation to the customers from their place.

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Qapita

Qapita is a leading equity management solution for startups and funds. Based out of Singapore and India, Qapita offers a secure, cloud-based solution that helps startups manage their Cap Tables, ESOPs and offer liquidity solutions to their shareholders. Qapita helps founders and investors to manag?e their equity ownership record as the single source of truth aiding diligence, sharing with stakeholders, and running complex scenario models.

Recently Qapita also launched a Marketplace solution led by seasoned I-Banker, Skanda Jayaraman to provide digital match-making platform for private company securities. The marketplace provides structured liquidity solutions for startups to unlock value of ESOP holders and other shareholders by matching them to potential buyers such as Family Offices, HNIs and Private Wealth investment firms through an end-end, digital workflow tool.

Qapita is Series-A funded and backed by many marquee institutional and angel investors including Citibank, Vulcan Capital, Endiya Partners, Mass Mutual Ventures, East Ventures, NYCA and several super angels.

Qualcomm Ventures

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its venture investment arm Qualcomm Ventures, presents the company’s annual QPrize™ 2015 international seed investment competition. The competition aims to identify and provide seed funding into early-stage companies with unique and promising wireless technologies. India finalist will be awarded up to US$250,000 in convertible note financing from Qualcomm as seed funding and will be invited to contend in the QPrize Grand Finals competition against other regional finalists on September 9, 2015. The Grand Finals winner will receive an additional US$250,000 of convertible note financing to aid in converting their business plan into reality.

Since inception, QPrize winners have collectively raised more than $238 million in total venture funding. Past winners include Capillary Technologies, Reverie Technologies, Deckapp, Konotor & Mavin Technologies. The deadline to submit business plans is July 10th, 2015. Upon receipt of entries, Qualcomm Ventures will select up to eight finalists from India. The chosen finalists will participate in QPrize India competition where each of the finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their technology in front of a panel. The panel will evaluate not only the merits of the technology innovation and its commercial potential, but also the company’s leadership capabilities and the attainability of the proposal’s financial projections.To get additional details of the competition, rules and regulations, or to submit your business plan, please visit www.qprize.com.

About Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm’s engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more information, visit Qualcomm’s website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Rabo Equity Advisors

We are the Investment Advisor for a USD 120 mln private equity fund. This is the first private equity Fund in Asia dedicated to food & agribusiness sector.

Besides the fund Sponsor - Rabobank, the Fund has commitments from premiere institutions such as IFC (part of the World Bank Group), DEG (part of KfW Group, owned 100% by the Government of Germany), FMO (Netherlands Development Finance Company), CDC (Commonwealth Development Corporation of the UK), Capvent AG, RWB Capital Germany and Rising Tide, Switzerland.

Rabo Equity Advisors is uniquely positioned to enable Indian agribusiness companies fully realize their potential, not only as a facilitator of capital, but also through its inputs on the business and governance.

Rabobank

Rabobank Group is a full-range financial services provider that operates on cooperative principles. Its origins lie in the local loan cooperatives that were founded in the Netherlands over 100 years ago. Rabobank Group focuses on all financial services in the Netherlands and Food & Agribusiness internationally. It offers Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Asset Management, and Leasing & Real Estate Services. Rabobank Group has over 59,000 employees,serving about 9.5 million clients in 48 countries. In terms of Tier I capital, Rabobank Group is among the world 25 largest financial institutions. Rabobank Group also has the highest credit rating (AAA), awarded by well-known international rating agencies such as Standard & Poor, Moody Investor Service and Dominion Bond Rating Service.

Rabo India is a 100% subsidiary of Rabobank International, the world leading food and agribusiness bank. Rabo India is a significant provider of corporate financial services to the food and agribusiness sector in India. Established in 1998, Rabo India operates out of its three offices in Mumbai,Delhi and Bangalore.

Rabo India offers sector specific knowledge based customised financial solutions, through a wide spectrum of fund and fee based products and services. Rabo India is backed by a local pool of intellectual and monetary resources as well as Rabobank global network. Organised as an NBFC in India, Rabo India enjoys an AAA rating from Crisil.

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Rajesh LifeSpaces

Raghavjibhai Patel, founded Rajesh LifeSpaces and he recognized the important role that Mumbai city would play in the development of the entire country as a business hub. Over the years Rajesh LifeSpaces, has been known for diversifying its presence all over Mumbai with a varied bouquet of projects.

Today, the leadership team is proud of the fact that they are recognized for various landmarks across the length and breadth of Mumbai. Over the last five decades, they have developed a strong foothold across the city and are well-known for well-designed, high-quality and innovative ‘LifeSpaces’. So far, they’ve delivered eight million sq. ft. of area and have crafted living spaces for over 12,000 families.

The company has developed many real estate projects, which are identified in the market for impeccable quality and sustainability. Since the initiation of the first project, they’ve maintained high levels of quality, which has, inevitably, earned them the invaluable trust of their customers over the years. The cornerstone of all their endeavours remains strong core values, work ethics and undivided commitment towards work.

Razorpay

Razorpay is an online payment gateway, backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, and also seed funded by Ram Shriram, Justin Kan, founders of Inmobi and Snapdeal, Flipkart CPO to name a few. Razorpay allows merchants to accepts payment online via Credit Card, Debit Card, Net Banking and popular wallets from the end customers in real-time with a key focus on better success rates. Started in early 2015 by IIT Roorkee graduates, Razorpay is today India's fastest growing payment gateway. The USP of Razorpay in the gateway business is its simple yet robust platform which is not just customer friendly but also very technically savvy. The integration APIs provided by Razorpay are some of the most advanced ones in India and hence provide ease of integration and flexibility to its merchants. Razorpay’s product is specifically designed for Indian online payment ecosystem and is hence optimised for working at low internet speeds while still maintaining high success ratios compared to any other leading gateways in India. Razorpay's cutting edge features in mobile SDKs and the ability to complete the online transaction on merchant's site(without redirection) is what makes it stand out in this segment.