June 24th, 2010
Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad and Piramal Foundation announce “Piramal Prize 2010” – to enable bold entrepreneurial ideas with potential to reduce the burden of disease across India. The Prize is an initiative to solve the health crisis by encouraging innovative ideas in the field of health care.
Categories:
The Piramal Prize is to be given in 2 categories
1 – Emerging Ventures – Disruptive ventures in existence for less than three years. Entries may be in the start up/ idea/ growth stages, ideally with a prototype/pilot project completed or underway.
2 – Established Organizations – For Enterprises with a proven ability to reduce the burden of disease. Nominees may be not-for-profit or for-profit, but should present measurable impact on healthcare in large scale. For this category, one can nominate an organization that one thinks has done good work in reducing the burden of disease.
Prize Money:
The most viable business model in each of the categories above shall receive seed investment/Prize Money of Rs 10,00,000/- each.
Purpose and Criteria:
The Piramal Prize is designed to support innovations that bring better health at a lower cost to more people across India. In addition to highlighting successful organizations, the Piramal Prize seeks to enable cutting edge entrepreneurial ideas that make healthcare more effective and affordable.
Applicants should have business models that emphasize sustainability and impact on the health outcomes of India’s masses; but it is equally important for entrants to have passion for and commitment to solving the healthcare crisis
Entries may include, but are not limited to, innovations in service delivery, technology applications, health-related products, or mechanisms to address public health necessities such as potable water.
Deadline:
Last date for Application : 15th August 2010
Visit www.piramalprize.org to know more
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April 21st, 2010
Mentor Edge
CIIE’s MentorEdge conducted a Mentoring Clinic in Mumbai on the 10th of April at SPJIMR, the first one to be hosted in the city of Mumbai.
The Clinic was well received, with over 70 people attending it. Prof AS Rao, Prof MS Rao, Mr. Sanjay Mehta, Mr. Kaushik Mazumdar, Mr. Arun Anant and some more of IIM Ahmedabad Alumni participated as Mentors to about 40 startups.
About MentorEdge:
MentorEdge is a Pan India network of Professionals and Experts who love to spend time with Entrepreneurs, helping them make strategies for their start ups and achieve traction. The initiative was launched in the Month of October and since then it has grown at a very fast pace.
MentorEdge is active in 3 cities of the country – Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Mumbai and we are looking at expanding to Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad in the next leg.
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April 20th, 2010
Hardik sanghvi of vMukti awarded to be amongst the 2010 brightest young Innovators under 35.
MITs Technology Review has recently announced 20 Indian Brightest Technology Innovators under the age of 35.
For more details, plz follow the link.
http://www.technologyreview.in/TR35/index.aspx?year=2010&channel=All
It took him two years to perfect algorithms that allow rich content to be streamed on low bandwidth. But just 12 weeks into the commercial launch of the product VMukti, the Ahmedabad-based start-up co-founded by Hardik Sanghvi, has raked in eight enterprise customers. “These are the customers who have signed for 2-5 years contracts,” said Mr Sanghvi, who will use this product to beam e-learning content to remote learning centres primarily in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/Indian-techies-steal-the-show-at-global-tech-event/articleshow/5661034.cms
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April 20th, 2010
Former Chairman of Avaya Global connect joins vMukti
Former Vice Chairman and MD of Avaya Global Connect joins vMukti .After 30 years of Communications Solutions industry experience with AT&T, Lucent Technologies & Avaya in USA and India, and having led Avaya’s India business for over 10 years, Mr. Niru Mehta -Former Vice Chairman and MD – Avaya GlobalConnect Ltd has now joined vMukti as Chairman to continue to provide solutions to Indian businesses that will help them improve their Customer Responsiveness.
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April 20th, 2010
Four new start-up companies sanctioned for MSME seed fund through CIIE.
Meeting for MSME Fund Management committee of CIIE was carried out on 23rd January,2010 at CIIE building. Four new start-up companies got sanctioned for the MSME seed fund through CIIE.
Bhuved: GIS and data mapping
Uniken – Hand Geometry: A system to sense motion of hand and identify a person with very high accuracy and low costs.
Uniken – Transafe: System to ensure totally safe & hack proof electronic transactions with Banks etc.
Energia Drying and cooling : Non humid Air Cooling Systems
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April 20th, 2010
www. iweekend.org
iWeekend is an intensive event that brings together a highly motivated group of 50 entrepreneurs and professionals to select a couple of ideas and work together to launch a first version of the products (usually web applications), all in one weekend.
The event brought together an interesting mix of technology entrepreneurs, professionals, mentors and investors. It was organized in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Delhi over consecutive weekends in March 2010.
iWeekend is a non-profit organization started in Spain in 2008 with the mission of promoting the culture of entrepreneurship in new technologies.
In India, it was organized thanks to the initiative of Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (IIM Bangalore), Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (IIM Ahmedabad) and TiE Delhi (The Indus Entrepreneurs, Delhi chapter).
The event was targeted towards professionals, freelance, students, of any age: programmers, designers, marketers, business folks, lawyers, etc. with a passion for technology, internet and the world of software. A total of 6 products were created in the 3 events.
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April 20th, 2010
iBloom Technologies just launched the expert sign up invitation site of their flagship product www.HelloExpert.com.
HelloExpert is the revolutionary approach to seeking expert solutions to customer problems using internet from the comfort of home or office. We bring advanced technologies and experts at customer’s finger tips to offer help or advice- live or offline- free or personalized.
For real life illustrations click here
We would like to share some anonymous feedback we have been receiving from around the world.
“This is a unique concept that your team has come up with and has good potential. Congrats to your team on this idea.”
“Terrific concept and I am sure it will only add value into people’s lives, looking forward to join in soon”
“This concept has significant potential. Congratulations to the people behind the idea!”
“Wish you the best of luck in getting this off the ground. I think it
is a great idea”
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January 7th, 2010
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas worth spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED’s members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more.
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January 7th, 2010
Founded by alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and industry professionals, Mantis is the first company to implement Software as a Service (SAAS) model in online ticketing platform for bus industry in India.
The All India foot-print of www.travelyaari.com, their B2C website has been extended to 17 states of India.
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January 7th, 2010
The home edition of ENPOWER, replete with all the features that go into the Enterprise Edition was launched in October along with an energy savings race titled ‘The Social Power Array’ on Facebook. This Facebook Application lets you know how much you’ve saved, how much your friends are saving, and what the worldwide savings thus far look like. The premise is simple – while enterprises will pay for such a tool, an individual user has little or no incentive to spend on ENPOWER. However, if a large number of home users download Enpower, a free application, the impact can be significant. The initiative has seen 90 users across 7 countries collectively avoid nearly 13,000 hours of inactivity and save over 700kWh of power on their computers so far.
(http://creativeriot.com/the-social-power-array/)
To illustrate PC Power Management, the savings it represents and how Enpower can best help you realize these savings for your organization, find their brochure at: www.creativeriot.com/resources/Enpower – Plugging the leak.pdf
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