Investment & Technology Promotion Division
Ministry of External Affairs
Government of India /
Department of Electronics and Information Technology
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Government of India /
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry,
Government of India /

START UP iNDIA 2016

Annual Meet of Entrepreneurs and Innovators

Wednesday, 20thJanuary, 2016 New Delhi

Hotel ITC Maurya, New Delhi

Draft Agenda

09:00 am - 10.00 am / REGISTRATION
10:00 am - 11:30 am / INAUGURAL SESSION
Welcome Address / Mr. Sunil Kanoria,
President,
ASSOCHAM
Knowledge Paper Presentation / Mr. Anirudh Gupta
Director
Grant Thornton India LLP
Industry Address / Mr. VineetNayar
Founder,Sampark Foundation
Former CEO, HCL Technologies
Mr. Amit Jain,
Country Head & CEO,
Uber India
Mr. Puneet Y Dalmia
Managing Director,
Dalmia Bharat Limited
Key Note Speaker / H. E. Mr. Daniel Carmon
Ambassador, Embassy of Israel
Guest of Honor / ShriAmitabh Kant, IAS
Secretary,
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion,
Ministry of Commerce & Industry,Government of India
Chief Guest / ShriRajnath Singh,
Hon'ble Union Minister for Home Affairs,
Government of India
Concluding Remarks &
Vote of Thanks / Mr. D. S. Rawat
Secretary General,
ASSOCHAM
11:30 am – 11:45 am / NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE
SESSION – I
11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Start Ups
Government Policy Initiatives and Schemes / Chairperson:
Mr. C. Muralikrishna Kumar,
Senior Adviser
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)
Key Speakers:
Mr. ManojMittal
Regional Incharge Delhi,
SIDBI
Mr. K. Nagaraj Naidu,
Director (Investments)
Ministry of External Affairs
Government of India
Mr. Arvind Gupta
Head, IT Cell
BharatiyaJanata Party
Mr. Manoj Kumar Das
Director,
Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (Guwahati)
Session Moderator:
Ms. RituMarya
Editor-in-Chief
Entrepreneur Media India
12:45 pm – 01:45 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
SESSION – II
01:45 pm – 02:45 pm
Start Ups: Failure and Success Stories
LimeRoad.com,is e-commerce marketplace for women’s wear and has raised a total of $50 million in funding so far.
SuvidhaaInfoserveLtd, the flagship company of the Rs 6,500-crore e-commerce group Suvidhaa, has joined the select bandwagon by applying toRBIfor payment bank licence.Suvidhaa is one of the country’s largest payment management companies, with 80,000 retail locations across India. Currently, it handles remittances and payment transactions worth Rs 80 billion ($1.2 billion) annually.
Connect India providing a level playing field in logistics by reaching the unreached. Vision is to create a pan India last mile delivery network covering 25000 pin codes by leveraging the existing economic assets such as the brick and mortar retailer and the digital India platform by engaging in a robust mobile first technology. Target isto appoint 50,000 last mile delivery entrepreneurs as Connect India Centers (CICs), who in turn will provide employment to 200,000 plus delivery associates from their local communities in the next 3 years.
Instago was born out of a vision to solve all road transport problems across the world. Cities across the world have evolved and are now a complex mix of multiple road transport options.
Gram Power is an energy tech company founded out of Berkeley, California. Their disruptive smart grid technology has changed the way electricity is supplied to and consumed by rural and urban consumers - enabling them to get access to reliable and clean energy, while helping them to optimize and pay for electricity using their phones without the risk of theft or pilferage. The company's tech was also selected by NASA among the top 10 cleantech innovations around the world.
NextGen is India's first VC funded company in the Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability space. Currently working with more than 100 companies (including Fortune 500 in 22 sectors) and manage more than USD 125 million of CSR/ development capital annually.
Boond designs solar power centres and products for rural markets such as solar light systems, solar light bulbs, biomass gas stoves, solar AC inverter systems and solar water pumps.Currently it has six energy hubs across districts in Rajasthan and UP enabling 10 million people to access customised solar solutions. USD 1 Million +Raised From Investors In India & Abroad. They has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A equity investment led by OPES Impact Fund with participation of two other members of investment network Ennovent Circle – Rianta Capital and Sumantra Roy.
SESSION – III
02:45 pm – 03:45 pm
Funding Issues: Challenges & Opportunity
IvyCap Ventures - One of the leading VCs whoinvest in early and growth stage companies across sectors such as Healthcare, Education, Food based businesses, Technology, e/m-Commerce and other innovation oriented businesses. IvyCap (ivycapventures.com)has successfully raised and deployed 250 crs and is now raising another Rs. 1200 crs. Given decades of experience in the area of Private Equity and VC funds
BVP invests in enterprise, consumer and healthcare technology startups around the world. BVP having 115 IPOs, $1.68 Bn Finds and 45 Investment Professionals.Bessemer Venture Partners, which has backed firms like Pinterest and LinkedIn, has raised a global fund with a corpus of about Rs 10,000 crore, over a tenth of which is expected to be invested in India. The VC firm, which has invested also inSnapdealandTaxiForSure, could deploy over 1,250 crore or $200 million in India, as it continues to scout for technology startups. / Chairperson:
Mr.Shailendra Singh, IAS
Joint Secretary & CVO,
Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Government of India.
Key Speakers:
Ms. Suchi Mukherjee
Founder,
LimeRoad.com
Mr. Paresh Rajde
Founder & Chairman
SuvidhaaInfoserve P. Ltd
Mr. L R Sridhar
Co-founder MD and CEO
Connect India
Mr. Nakul Khanna
Co-founder,
Instago
Mr. YashrajKhaitan
Founder & CEO
Gram Power
Mr. Abhishek Humbad
Co- Founder
NextGen
Mr. Rustam Sengupta,
Founder & CEO
Boond Engineering & Development
Session Moderator:
Dr. Anil Wali
Managing Director
Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi
Chairperson:
Dr. Saurabh Garg, IAS
Joint Secretary (I&C)
Ministry of Finance
Government of India
Key Speakers:
Ms. PadmajaRuparel
Co- Founder & President,
Indian Angel Network
Mr. Abhinav Sinha
COO, Oyo Rooms
Mr. Vikram Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner
IvyCap Ventures
Mr. RaghavBehl
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Mr. ShaileshVikram Singh
Executive Director
Seedfund

./ / Session Moderator:
Dr. KunalUpadhyay
Chief Executive Officer
Centre For Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE)
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
04:15 pm Onwards NETWORKING COFFEE