Pune chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (popularly known as TiE) shall be launching a path-breaking initiative in helping entrepreneurs and SMEs succeed. Codenamed 'NURTURE', it aims to bridge the chasm between the young entrepreneurs with passion and ideas and their access to critical ingredients, like funding, teams, technology through a structured mentoring program spanning six months.

UKTI – UK Trade & Investment and MCCIA – Marhatta Chamber of Commerce are supporting this.

LAUNCH PROGRAM

6.00 PM – 6.30 PM         Tea and Fellowship
6.30 PM – 6.50 PM         Welcome and Introductions
 

6.50 PM – 8.00 PM         Panel Discussion on

Mutual Experiences and Expectations – Investor and Investee Perspectives

Participants

• Aniruddha Pant, Ph.D. Founder, Algoanaytics, Early Stage Entrepreneur currently raising fund
• Samir Palnitkar, Founder ShopSocially.com - Serial Entrepreneur, who has gone thru funding multiple times. Just closed a funding Round
• Kevin Kumana -Analyst Mumbai Angels – What Angels look for while investing
• Ravi Trivedi – a Principal at Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, an early stage technology venture capital fund
• Manish Singhal - Chief Saarthi @ Saarthi - helps start-ups get established & started-ups scale

Moderator

Vandana Saxena Poria - OBE, Founder, Get Through Guides – Entrepreneur and Chairman, British Business Group

8.00 PM – 8.25 PM

Launch of ‘TiE – Pune NURTURE Initiative

• Presentation by Ajay Bhagwat, Founder , Renu Electronics and TiE Initiative Leader
• Talk by Suhasini Kirloskar, Director, BTO Pune on UKTI Support
• Talk by Anant Sardeshmukh, Director General, MICCIA on its support

8.25 PM – 8.30 PM            Vote of Thanks

8.30 PM onwards               Dinner

Look forward to having you with us.

TiE Pune

Ajay Bhagwat – TiE Pune Lead - Mentoring
Vishwas Mahajan – President (vishwas.mahajan@pune.tie.org)

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