Archive for the ‘startups’ tag.
Inviting Pune Startups to Showcase their Products at Pune Connect 2011
The Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP) and the Pune Open Coffee Club (POCC) are inviting proposals from Pune startups and small companies for Pune Connect 2011, an event to be held on November 5th in Pune. In this event, the most interesting Pune startups and small companies will be selected to showcase their products [...]
Phanindra Sama, CEO & Co-Founder redBus.in to speak in Pune – 16 Sept
redBus.in is a truly Indian internet commerce success story. Nowhere else can I imagine a website that sells bus tickets being so successful. And, to be frank, when I first heard about redBus, I did not think much of its prospects myself. Hence I think it will be very interesting for the tech as well [...]
Pune Startup YourNextLeap.com get Series A Funding
Pune based startup, YourNextLeap.com, whom we covered last November as a company to watch, has just announced that they have received Series A funding from Nirvana Venture Advisors. YourNextLeap is a website targeting students and provides guidance on what university they can/should apply to after engineering, or after 12th std. They have online tools like [...]
POCC Event: Exploring North American Market for Indian IT SMEs – 20 Aug
Parag Khair, an IT consultant with experience in IT offshoring who lives in Toronto is visiting Pune and will give a talk on how small and medium IT companies from India can target the North American market, at 4pm on Saturday, 20th August, at 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near [...]
IPMA Event: PM Journey – From Startup to Billion Dollar Co by Amit Paranjape
IPMA Pune, the Pune Chapter of the Indian Product Manager’s Association, presents a talk by Amit Paranjape, this Friday, from 4pm to 7pm, at BMC Software, Tower A, ICC Tech Park, SB Road. Amit will talk about his Product Management Journey – from a startup to a billion dollar company Abstract – Product Management Journey [...]
Event Report: “Building Tech Products out of India” with Naren Gupta of Nexus Ventures
(This is a live blog of the event Nexus Venture Partners’ event “Building Global Tech Product Companies out of India” where Naren Gupta, founder of Nexus chatted with Abinash Tripathy, founder of Pune-company Infinitely Beta about the challenges faced by companies trying to build a global product. The other four partners at Nexus were also [...]
Event Report: Dr. Ramesh Raskar of MIT Media Lab
(This is a live blog of the talk given by Dr. Ramesh Raskar, of MIT Media Lab in Pune. Since this is a live-blog, it will not be as well structured as a regular article, and might contain more-than-normal grammatical errors.) About EyeNetra EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs less than Rs. [...]
Talk by Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab – 6th July
Mark your calendars. This is an event you cannot miss. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab (that’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not Pune’s MIT), considered one of the top young innovators in the world, is in town, and we’re taking this opportunity to have him give a talk. The talk is at 5:45pm [...]
“Building Tech Companies out of India” – with VC Naren Gupta co-founder of Nexus – 12 July
Dr. Naren Gupta, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, is visiting India and will be in Pune on July 12th. An event for Pune’s entrepreneurs has been arranged where Naren will chat with Abinash Tripathy about “Building Tech Companies out of India”, and this will be followed by networking. The event will be from 2pm to [...]
Event Report: TechSparks Pune 2011
(This is a live-blog of the TechSparks 2011 event in Pune. Since it is being written as the event happens, please excuse the typos, and the general low quality of the writing. Hopefully the quality of the speakers and the content will make up for that.) Some interesting statistics. The event is at Dewang Mehta [...]