PuneTech

Upcoming Event: POCC meetup - Footprint Ventures and Google M&A

What: Pune OpenCoffee Club get-together. Informal meeting with Footprint Ventures, and Google Corporate Development and M&A.
When: Thursday, 3rd July, 6pm.
Where: Seed Infotech’s office in Erandawana
Registration and Fees: This event is free for everyone. Register at upcoming.
Details:
Hemant Joshi, of nFactorial would like to invite POCC members to an informal get-together with special invitees: Footprint Ventures, and [...]

Upcoming Event: Footprint Venture entrepreneurs meeting

Update: See the updated post on the latest details (including venue, and Google M&A’s participation).
Hemant Joshi, co-founder of nFactorial Software, writes:
Footprint Venture will be visiting Pune in next week, 3rd July. They are an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India. (http://footprintventures.com/index.htm ). I am trying to arrange their meeting with POCC members [...]

Pune OpenCoffee Club Meeting - 4th April (for Startups)

If you are a Pune-based entrepreneur (or think you’d like to be an entrepreneur someday), consider joining the Pune OpenCoffee Club. There is a meeting of the POCC on Friday. Main agenda is for the members to get to know each other. Also a couple of VCs will be attending - they also want to [...]

IBM invests in EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB has just raised $10 million in venture capital. IBM was one of the investors in this round of funding (Series C), and this brings their total funding to $37.5 million. EnterpriseDB is a provider of enterprise class products and services based on the PostgreSQL open source database.
EnterpriseDB has a development center in Pune.
Related [...]

Tech Community Building: Startup Lunch, OpenCoffee Club and Bloggers Meet

Startup Lunch, Pune
[A StartupLunch] is roughly the same as the SpeedDating concept. The startup founders are seated on one side and the candidates get to say hello and have a quick conversation to talk about what the background of the founder is, why he started the company and what sort of person he is looking [...]

Upcoming Events: Pune Bloggers Meet, VC Forum

Pune Bloggers Meet, March 15, 4pm
Indiblogger is arranging a bloggers meet in Pune (sponsored by Microsoft). To get an idea of what the meet is likely to be like, see reports of their previous blogger meets at Hyderabad and Bangalore.
So far, it appears that about 30 bloggers have confirmed attendance (although I suspect that the [...]

Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 - TiE and Canaan Partners

This is not exactly a Pune event, but given the number of people with entrepreneurial instincts in Pune, this should have wide appeal here.
TiE and Canaan Partners announced the launch of the TIE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008, a business plan competition open to early stage entrepreneurs from across the country. The idea is to submit a [...]