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Fundraising For Startups- Founders' Perspective

June 02

Saturday

CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad.
Featured participants:
Yash Shah - Consistently trying to think in terms of systems, not goals; processes, not outcomes; and philosophies, not tactics and how it can bring about change that lasts. Also, passionately curious.
Sumit Karanji - Founder, Curlin Professional
Harsh Rajnikant Patel - Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working 4+ in the software industry & Entrepreneurship . Skilled in Business Planning, Operations Management, Software Development , Web Development , App Development , Startup Mentoring & Consulting.

Founder & CEO at Sunflowee Biztech. Currently working with 20+ Startups. Passionate to work with the startups having the creative and exciting ideas. Currently mentoring and helping tech startups scale with the team of expert developers at Sunflowee Biztech - www.sunfloweebiztech.com
Alen Abraham - Alen Abraham - CEO of Plutomen Technologies
Amarendra Mukherjee - Good Life and Relationship coach. Looking for great tech start up where I can join as a cofounder and take care of sales and marketing and also looking for good start-ups in initial stages to invest .
Indresh Agrawal - We sell office stationery .
Shruti Kushwah - Founder, Crealoons Innovation, Product Engineering Services. 
Co-Founder, Saisaan Spirits
MAKIM VATSAL G - IIMC MBA, Strategic Consultant, Advisor , Have International Work Experience with world's largest MNC
Dhanesh Wadekar - Being a B.Tech Chemical engineer and currently working as a Social Media Strategist in a Digital/Advertising agency. The shift is huge, but when it comes to creativity and self-learning, hard work pays off. Having the engineering knowledge of experimenting new things experience into the digital field, creates a good pool of thoughts and strategies for businesses to bloom.
Purvesh Simejiya - Entrepreneur
Vishal - Our aim to see a healthier India.
We are selling "healthy smoothies" in Ahmedabad.
Jigar Vavadia - Branding Vector is a creative design agency which tends to all the branding/designing needs of a company to help build a brand and helps promote it on social media.
Jayraj Vora - making everything online
Mit Dave - Fatty Alchemist
Hirak Raval - Hirak Raval is presently working as Vice President (Marketing & Sales) at the DAD Consultancy Service. He has nearly fifteen years of experience and served with diverse industries and market sectors from local to MNCs and with SMEs, MSMEs to International companies. He is planning to pursue his doctorate in management, completed the master in biomedical technology, as well profound certified professional courses from world-renowned institutions. (i.e. Stanford, MIT, NPTEL, Google to list a few).
Shreekesh Sreekumar - Budding Entrepreneur. Working on optimisation of parking system.
Devashree Roychowdhury - Architect | Urban and Rural Planner
Dharit Gadani - Additional Director of KCI Bearings (India) Pvt Ltd - OEM supplier to Tata Motors and many more. Currently, diversifying into F&B Industry.
Rikin  - i m interested in a start up relating to Food industry
Sanjay Thakkar - A Chartered Accountant & Tech Enthusiast working in the Field of Advisory Services w.r.t. Business Deals, Fund Raising, M&A, ERP Consultancy, knowledge process outsourcing, Tax Matters, Forensic Accounting & Fraud Prevention, Investigation & Detection Field. A Faculty & Speaker of Fraud Investigations at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & other forums.
Sumant Lohar - I am a tech blogger at Blogospedia.com, content creator, content as well as social media strategist and social media marketer.
Maitrik Desai - I am a Project Manager by profesion and now i am re-exploring the Entrepreneurship Era with mobile based products for the concepts of Micro Leasing and Micro Social.
Dr Saurav Chaturvedi - A DoctorPreneur (Doctor turned Entrepreneur) .
An Orthodontist (Braces Specialist) & A Cosmetologist.
Ronil Diyora - Entrepreneur; Operator
Brinda Patel  - Wittybrowns is group company of Pixelbyte. Currently we are working at startup stage for  3 major sectors viz. Education, Management and Food. Wittybrowns is into education sector where we conduct aptitude test SAGA and CAD for Secondary and Higher Secondary Students.
Ravish Kumar - working for advancement and technology in agriculture business
Ravi Kapadia - Co-Founder at The Brand Projects
apoorv - Give ease to mobile seller to liquidate their old or eol stocks
Pranay Rathod - Hi this is Pranay, I am an entrepreneur working to make the management of residential societies way more better than what it is. My company GoWofee (www.gowofee.com) aims to take up all the activities and burdens of a society on its shoulders and ensure the smooth and seamless operation of the society and make the lives of its members much better. We want to become the one stop solution to each and every need of every residential society in India and hence, a majority of the Indian population.

Apart from this I am always open to new business ideas and I always look forward to meeting new entrepreneurs who want to bring a change in the world. 

Anyone who wants to discuss or just wants to have some casual talks about their startup or their business ideas or have doubts related to starting up a business and how to validate an idea or about market research or anything else can surely drop me a message and I will be more than happy to help and share my experiences of the startup ecosystem.
Dhiraj Sharma - Professional with experience of 18 years in healthcare space with focus on Strategy Consulting and IT Product Development. Started vCura Wellness Solutions to enable people lead healthy life.
Manikandan Alagu - We are into recruitment business
Event Details:

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eChai Ventures will be hosting the second season of the series of workshops related to 'Fundraising for Startups' at CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad as part of the #Innocity.

The first 'Fundraising For Startups' session will have leading founders from the community who've raised funds for their ventures to share their experiences and insights with fellow founders.

List of founders who'll be sharing their insights of raising funds coming up.

Venue: CIIE, New Campus of IIM Ahmedabad.
Date: 2nd June, Saturday Time: 6 pm to 8 pm.

About eChai Ventures:

eChai is an amazing Startup Social Network which hosts engaging entrepreneurial programs across 20+ cities in India, a powerful online social network with members from across the world and also contextually curates info about global startup trends.

eChai has recently introduced eChai Membership Program - where one can pay Rs.500/per year to become the eChai Member.

Checkout the membership benefits and all the other things about eChai at http://eChai.in/

About Innocity:

Innocity is an initiative by CIIE and Startup Oasis and is a highly customized startup incubation platform. Innocity enables professionals, mentors, startup founders, angels and other startup service providers to offer customized, specific and relevant services and support to startups – which as available as standalone modules. Entrepreneurs can book modules online but the modules will be scheduled as in-person workshops, meetings, events and mixers. Innocity therefore is not an ‘online’ incubation platform but enables entrepreneurs to take in-person workshops and courses.

Check out the Innocity website More info @ http://bit.ly/hqinnocity

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