START up India 2016

Investment & Technology Promotion Division Department of Electronics and Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of External Affairs Information Technology Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India Ministry of Communications & Government of India Information Technology Government of India START UP iNDIA 2016 Annual Meet of Entrepreneurs and Start Up Wednesday, 20th January, 2016 New Delhi Hotel ITC Maurya, New Delhi Agenda

09:00 am - 10.00 am REGISTRATION 10:00 am - 11:15 am INAUGURAL SESSION

Welcome Address Shri Rajkumar Dhoot, Hon’ble Member of Parliament & Past President, ASSOCHAM

Knowledge Paper Presentation Mr. Anirudh Gupta Director Grant Thornton India LLP

Key Note Speaker H. E. Mr. Daniel Carmon Ambassador, Embassy of Israel

Guest of Honor Shri Rajeev Gupta Secretary, Youth Affairs, Government of India

Chief Guest Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon'ble Union Minister, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India

Concluding Remarks & Mr. D. S. Rawat Vote of Thanks Secretary General, ASSOCHAM

11:30 am – 11:45 am NETWORKING TEA & COFFEE SESSION – I Chairperson:

Mr. C. Muralikrishna Kumar, 11:45 am – 12:45 pm Senior Adviser Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

Key Speakers:

 Mr. Krishna Iyer Mani Start Ups General Manager, SIDBI Government Policy Initiatives and Schemes  Mr. K. Nagaraj Naidu, Director (Investments) Ministry of External Affairs Government of India

 Mr. Dewang Neralla, 63 moons

 Mr. Arvind Gupta Head, IT Cell Bharatiya Janata Party

 Mr. Manoj Kumar Das Director, Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (Guwahati)

 Chief Guest Dr. Jitendra Singh Hon’ble Minister of State Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India

Session Moderator:

Ms. Ritu Marya Editor-in-Chief Entrepreneur Media India

12:45 pm – 01:45 pm NETWORKING LUNCH S ESSION – II

Chairperson:

 Mr. Shailendra Singh, IAS 01:45 pm – 02:45 pm Joint Secretary & CVO, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion Ministry of Commerce & Industry Government of India.

Key Speakers:  Ms. Suchi Mukherjee Founder, LimeRoad.com Start Ups: Failure and Success Stories

 Mr. Paresh Rajde Founder & Chairman Suvidhaa Infoserve P. Ltd

 Mr. L R Sridhar Co-founder MD and CEO Connect India

LimeRoad.com, is e-commerce marketplace for women’s wear and has raised a total of $50 million in funding so far.

Suvidhaa Infoserve Ltd, the flagship  Mr. Nakul Khanna company of the Rs 6,500-crore e- Co-founder, commerce group Suvidhaa, has joined the Instago select bandwagon by applying to RBI for 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  Mr. Yashraj Khaitan transactions worth Rs 80 billion ($1.2 Founder & CEO billion) annually. Gram Power

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 is to appoint 50,000 last mile delivery entrepreneurs as Connect India Centers (CICs), who in  Mr. Abhishek Humbad turn will provide employment to 200,000 Co- Founder 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  Mr. Rustam Sengupta, evolved and are now a complex mix of Founder & CEO Boond Engineering & Development 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 Session Moderator: using their phones without the risk of theft or pilferage. The company's tech was also Dr. Anil Wali selected by NASA among the top 10 Managing Director cleantech innovations around the world. Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi

Chairperson:  Dr. Saurabh Garg, IAS Joint Secretary (I&C) Ministry of Finance Government of India Key Speakers: NextGen is India's first VC funded company in the Corporate Social  Ms. Padmaja Ruparel Responsibility and Sustainability space. Co- Founder & President, Currently working with more than 100 Indian Angel Network companies (including Fortune 500 in 22  Mr. Abhinav Sinha sectors) and manage more than USD 125 COO, Oyo Rooms million of CSR/ development capital annually.  Mr. Vikram Gupta Founder and Managing Partner IvyCap Ventures 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  Mr. Raghav Behl Million + Raised From Investors In India Partner & Abroad. They has raised an undisclosed Bessemer Venture Partners 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.

 Mr. Shailesh Vikram Singh Executive Director Seedfund

 Mr. Miten Mehta, Non-Executive Board Member, Financial Technologies India Ltd (63 moons)

 SESSION – III

02:45 pm – 03:45 pm

Funding Issues: Challenges & Opportunity

IvyCap Ventures - One of the leading VCs who invest 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 in Snapdeal and TaxiForSure, could deploy over 1,250 crore or $200 million in India, as it continues to scout for technology startups. Session Moderator:  Dr. Kunal Upadhyay Chief Executive Officer Centre For Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. ./ 04:15 pm Onwards NETWORKING COFFEE