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In an endeavour to bring together innovative minds from all over the globe, Indian Angel Network, India’s largest horizontal seed stage platform, announces its first Global Startup Competition for Babson College affiliated entrepreneurs. Babson College has a global student and alumni base and is the #1 ranked college for entrepreneurship educationin the United States. Leveraging their mutual synergies, the joint initiative between IAN and Babson College is a pitch Competition open to startup companies in any industry and in any location around the world which are owned, controlled, and/or founded by Babson students, parents, faculty, or alumni. The Competition will culminate in a virtual finale showcase event involving three or more finalists to be selected by IAN. IAN is committed to providing strategic mentorship to the startup finalists and to helping them bolster their talent and scale and expand their business operations globally. This business competition brings together a pool of entrepreneurs, students, and Babson community members worldwide that will inform, support, and inspire others to be entrepreneurial and seek opportunity through enterprise creation globally. Apply Here..

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is a global not-for-profit organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship. TiE helps budding entrepreneurs through advice, guidance and assistance from successful & experienced entrepreneurs and professionals.

NASSCOM is India's National Association of Software and Service Companies, the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT software and services industry in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with over 950 members, of which over 150 are global companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM's member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products and IT-enabled/BPO services.

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is a Public Sector Undertaking set up by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India as an Interface Agency with the aim of strengthening and empowering emerging Biotech enterprises to facilitate them in undertaking strategic research and innovation that addresses nationally relevant product development needs. BIRAC is playing an important role in the implementation and delivery of the flagship programmes of the Indian Government especially ‘Make in India’ and ‘Start-up India’and has a crucial role in transformation of the Indian Bio economy to US$ 100 billion by 2025. Over the last five years, BIRAC has been at the forefront of a mission to transform the innovative index of the country especially in the area of Biotechnology. Through its efforts and alongwith its partners BIRAC has been able to create a pan-India presence supporting over 700 Biotech companies, SMEs, Research Institutes, which include around 500 startups and entrepreneurs. To provide launchpads for start-ups BIRAC has supported 24 Bio incubators across India. Through its focussed support BIRAC now has around 124 IPs generated and around 70 products that have reached commercialisation.

YES BANK has been working very closely with the start-up ecosystem, Governments & institutions to foster innovation & entrepreneurship. Their Alliances, Relationships & Technology (A.R.T) approach to Digitized Banking enables them to partner fintech startups to provide innovative financial solutions to its Corporate, SME and retail customer base. Under its in-house YES Fintech Accelerator program, the bank is co-creating sustainable and market ready financial products with fintech startups while working on strategic partnerships with 16 countries including the US, the UK, Nordic regions, Germany, Netherlands, ASEAN countries and Israel to bring global solutions to India as well as creating global Fintech corridors for Indian players. YES BANK has also institutionalized YES: Head-Startup - a holistic banking offering for startups with built in services for incubation/ acceleration, co-working spaces, taxation/ legal/accounting services.

India Startup Club is a dedicated proposition of RBL Bank which is one of India’s fastest growing scheduled commercial banks, focused on new age startups, offering customized end-to-end banking solutions. We simplify banking by providing online solutions to start, manage and grow your business rapidly. Our endeavor is to deliver a modern customer experience, nurture meaningful relationships and adopt a first time right approach to make banking easier for startups.

The Indian Venture Capital Association is the apex association of VC funds in the country, with the mission to facilitate growth of Venture Capital and Private Equity activities in India. The office of IVCA is based in New Delhi as Delhi is the seat of the government and a lot of regulatory issues are being taken up actively by IVCA. Today IVCA is working towards creating an enabling environment for VC’s in India.

The 10,000 Start-ups is an initiative of NASSCOM which is aimed at incubating, funding and supporting 10,000 technology start-ups in India over the next ten years. The program is partnered by Indian Angel Network and supported by Google, Microsoft and Verisign.

SINE is the business incubator at IIT Bombay, and supports technology start-ups that are based on products or intellectual property. It has been supporting start-ups since 2004 and has so far incubated more than 80 starts-ups. Majority of SINE supported star-ups have become revenue generating, with several having reached Rs.50-100 cr. in revenue, and many start-ups have raised multiple rounds of funding.

Plugin: Collaborative Incubation Program for Hardware & Systems Startups. DST, Intel and Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) are collaborating to conduct a new incubation program to support hardware& systems-based startups in India. The 1-year incubation will help startups to develop their products and assist in go-to-market strategies and scaling up.

The Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Bombay is a non-profit organization run by the students of IIT Bombay that aims at manifesting the latent entrepreneurial spirit of the young students. The vision of E-Cell IIT Bombay is to promote and support a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem by providing resources in the form of funding, consultancy, quality mentoring, market research, networking and others.

IIIT-H Foundation is a technology business incubator committed to the mission of being the thought leader in new age technologies like visual informatics, data engineering, machine learning, language technologies, gaming and robotics. Along with the physical space, we focus in providing startups with advisory services in areas of company strategy, fund raising, product design and development, technology, marketing, sales, building communities, seeding ecosystem, seed funding and supporting start-ups working on deep learning technologies. We facilitate all of these through our different programs and events, like Avishkar, Tech4social, Seeding@launchpad, Utsah, Brown Bag Sessions, Boot Camps, IP Clinic and many more. We believe in commercialising research work and make it happen through our tech transfer office in various models.

Birla Institute of Management & Technology ( BIMTECH) Birla Institute of Management & Technology ( BIMTECH) is 30 year old premium management Institute and has been consistently ranked as Top B-school. Our focus as Institute has always to deliver ethical, entrepreneurial students. The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development ( CIED ), established in 2009 in BIMTECH aims to prepare men and women to lead, innovate, and think entrepreneurially in business, public and social service, to be job creators and role models. BIMTECH has been selected to set up the " Atal Incubation Centre - BIMTECH" with the support of NITI Aayog, Government of India.