Mumbai Partner event

LIF India: Warm-Up Session

Name: LIF India: Warm-Up Session
Start: 2019-11-13T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2019-11-13T19:30:00+05:30
Location: Zone Startups India, 18th Floor, BSE Tower, Dalal Street, Mumbai.

Happened

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 6 pm - 7:30 pm

Zone Startups India, 18th Floor, BSE Tower, Dalal Street, Mumbai.

Mumbai

About

** This is eChai Partner Event by CIIE.CO, IIM Ahmedabad. ** 10 Guest Seats available for eChai Members on a first come first serve basis @ ... The UK’s internationally renowned Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) programme is coming to Mumbai. The LIF India: Warm-Up Session is designed to showcase the exceptional talent and experience of local Indian entrepreneurs working locally and internationally. This event aims to introduce the wider public to the UK and India's collaborative LIF programme. The evening will consist of dynamic, hot topic discussions on innovation and entrepreneurship challenges between established local entrepreneurs and special guests, facilitated by the British technology entrepreneur Boyan Benev. They will give you invaluable insights into their entrepreneurship paths so far as your peers. Don't miss the chance to network with this highly motivated and active community of innovation ‘makers’ who will be in the audience, we welcome you to ask questions and discuss burning topics on the fore-front of the Indian start-up ecosystem. If you are an innovation enthusiast, entrepreneur, work in the investment/start-up/accelerator/incubator world, a researcher curious about commercialising your innovation then register your attendance below. This is a great event to meet others just like you! If you don’t identify or associate yourself with any of these labels but are interested in participating in the event, we’d still love to have you join us. The event will be held in English. Please note that registration is mandatory and will close 24h prior the event. About LIF LIF was created and is run by the Royal Academy of Engineering ( https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do ) and is supported by the UK’s Newton Fund (https://www.newtonfund.ac.uk/) . It works in collaboration with each of the 17 Newton Fund country’s selected partner agency to improve the social and economic development of emerging economies through building skills and capacity on entrepreneurship and commercialisation. Over the five years of its existence, it has supported over 900 innovators successfully attempt to take on some of the most pressing issues humanity faces, from energy sustainability to the diagnostics and treatment of life-altering medical conditions to market. Drawing on its thriving relationship with prestigious 20 in-country partner organisations around the globe, the programme has enabled participants to raise over £60 million in innovation funding and launch more than 80 licensing deals and products to date. The 900+ network of innovators are now part of the LIF alumni community ( https://lif.raeng.org.uk/ ) and step by step are helping each other turn their ideas into products that are changing the world for good. Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM Ahmedabad helps entrepreneurs turn ideas into viable businesses. In partnership with their mentors, corporates, development agencies, IIMA community and investors, CIIE cultivates a rare breed of entrepreneurs by incubating, accelerating, mentoring and funding innovative start-ups. CIIE has, over the years, played a multi-dimensional role in the entrepreneurial landscape of India through its incubators, accelerators, seed-investments and publications. Its deep understanding of the evolving gaps, needs, and opportunities in the markets and the entrepreneurial ecosystem has enabled it to design initiatives that have attracted and supported the best entrepreneurs in various sectors. ..... About eChai.Network: eChai.Network is a global startup network that facilitates focused local meetups in 25+ global startup cities and enables cross-border collaborations. Get Your Annual All India eChai Pass for Startup Networking Events in India at Rs. 2000+ GST per year at http://eChai.in/

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.