Event update: Empower 2017 Ahmedabad Launch — eChai Ventures

Empower 2017 Ahmedabad Launch

Happened on September 12, Tuesday, 2017

CIIE

Event Details:

"empoWer" - India's 1st tech accelerator for women entrepreneurs - is an initiative by Zone Startups India. Launched in 2016, the first cohort of empoWer has gone onto raise significant funding and many laurels. Starting 2017, empoWer expands itself to become an ecosystem for nurturing women entrepreneurship through a conference, accelerator, skilling bootcamp, peer community and access to funding, as a year round initiative.

Following a grand launch conference in Mumbai on 1st September, empoWer 2017 is launching in Ahmedabad on Tuesday in partnership with CIIE, COWE and KGS Advisors on 12th September.

Register Here: bit.ly/empowerAhmedabad

To stay updated Twitter @ZSIEmpoWer

Our partners for this year are Department of Science and Technology (Government of India), Social Alpha (an initiative by Tata Trusts), Microsoft, Amazon, ICICI Bank, PayU, Cherie Blair Foundation, CapitalFirst and FlexiLoans.

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