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Pune’s @EZMove_in raises Rs 1 crore in angel funding from HNIs

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The Economic Times is reporting that Pune-based EZMove has raised Rs 1 crore in angel funding from HNIs.

Excerpts from the article:

Online home relocation service aggregator EZMove raised angel investment of Rs 1 crore from seven high networth individuals, including industrialist Hemant Bharatram, and Chicago-based Purvi Capital cofounder Ravi Srivastava, who have all invested in their personal capacity.

Founded in August last year, EZMove is an online marketplace where a user can meet a reliable packer by simply filling out an online form. The customer also receives ratings of each of these vendors based on old customer experience and also feedback based on the startup’s screening process. At a minimum, the customer gets quotations from 3-4 packers.

How are they planning on using the money?

“We will aggressively expand to smaller towns and cities, and invest on our mobile website,” said Anand Agarwal, 36, who cofounded the company with Vishwajeet Singh, who he met while working at Geometric Software. EZMove expects a revenue of Rs 12 crore by December 2014 at current run rate. The movers and packers market in India is estimated to be about Rs 10,000 crore with mostly unorganized players.

The founders Anand and Vishwajeet will be familiar to Pune techies from their earlier venture, cloud-based software development environment provider BootstrapToday.

Read the full article

Pune’s FirstCry – Baby Products eCommerce Company – to have 100 offline stores

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VCCircle has an interesting interview with Supam Maheshwari, CEO of Pune-based baby-products ecommerce company, FirstCry, where he says that they will have 100 offline stores in India by the end of this year

Here are some excerpts from that interview:

You raised $15 million funding from Vertex to take the total external funding to $33 million. How are you using the fresh capital?

The capital is being used mainly to enhance our technology, product and operations. A portion of the money is also being used to open more offline stores in cities across the country. We currently run 70 stores across 58 cities and continue to add four-five stores a month. We will now look to open more stores in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Delhi, among others.

By the end of this year, we will have 100 offline stores across the country to beat lifestyle apparels and fashion e-tailer Myntra.com to have the most number of stores from an e-com player in India. By the end of 2017, we aim to have 400 stores across 250 cities.

And:

Are you looking at global markets?

Currently, we are focusing on India. There are millions of babies born every day in India, and their parents plan what products to be bought for their kids even before they are born. This is where we are seeing huge opportunities. Additionally, India is a very complex world, with different states, taxes and varied tastes. Once we become even more sizeable, we will look at overseas markets.

and:

Large e-com players like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal are innovating on last-mile delivery to acquire more businesses. How are you positioned on that front?

In fact, we do next-day delivery in 10-12 cities free of cost while Amazon and Snapdeal charge a fee for the same. This service is available in certain cities like Mumbai, Pune, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. We will pan to expand next-day delivery to 12 cities.

Read the full article. Try this Google search for other PuneTech coverage of FirstCry.

Druva, Pune-based backup software startup, gets $25M in Series D Funding

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Techcrunch reports that Druva, the Pune-based backup software startup, has just received $25MM In Series D Funding from Sequoia, along with Nexus Venture Partners and Tenaya capital, bringing their total funding to $92MM.

Usually, online backup providers get compared with Dropbox and Box.com and other, famous consumer oriented backup providers, but in keeping with Pune’s tradition of Enterprise Software products, Druva is differentiating itself by focusing on the B2B market:

First of all, they have concentrated strictly on the enterprise market, foregoing the SMB and consumer markets that bring with them the lure of big user numbers, but lower revenue.

Secondly, rather than being strictly a backup tool or sync and share, they have chosen a different route, what he says is more intelligent than simply offering “a data graveyard.” Instead, they look at data protection and governance on mobile devices, working with eDiscovery vendors like Recommind and AccessData to help companies entangled in litigation isolate and remove content involved in the lawsuit from the affected mobile devices with minimum possible disruption to the owner.

And thirdly they can provide mobile device recovery if a device is lost to get a user back up and running  quickly, and they can help IT assess what if any essential data might have been compromised..

and, as a result, they’re playing in a slightly different market than traditional cloud storage/backup providers:

puts them more in competition with traditional backup/governance/eDiscovery vendors like EMC, Symantec and HP than cloud storage vendors like Dropbox and Box. In fact, he says his sales typically involve both legal and IT, so it’s a bit of a different play than pure cloud storage would suggest.

The approach has gotten the attention of customers like NASA, Pfizer, Dell and Hitachi among others, and they have gained 900 customers since their last funding round, growing from 2100 to 3000 enterprise customers in the last 10 months.

Read the full article.

Or check out all articles on PuneTech tagged ‘backup’ – you’ll get a history of Druva over the years.

Startup Leadership Program Pune, Last date to apply: 31 July

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The third Pune batch of the Startup Leadership Program (SLP) will run from September 2014 to March 2015, and they’re looking for startup founders who’re interested in joining. The last date to apply is 1st August.

SLP is a weekend course for startup founders that runs over 6 months (total of 60-hours). It is a volunteer driven program and the “training” is provided by successful entrepreneurs. SLP does not take any equity from the founder for this course – but they do charge some fees (Rs. 12000 this year) to recover their costs for running the program. This is the third batch in Pune – the first batch ran in 2012 and the class had 21 founders.

SLP Pune’s Program leaders are: Sujata Bogawat (Director – Advantage Business Consulting), Abhishek Ballabh (Co-founder, ExtraAEdge.com), Koustubh Naik (Founder, Periwinkle Technologies), Tushar Komawar (Founder, Bharat Endeavours), Vinay Nathan (CEO and Co-founder, Altizon Systems).

SLP bills itself as a selective, world-class training program for entrepreneurs who want to become top startup CEOs. Pune SLP Fellows will build a life-long network with a group of outstanding founders, and connect with a growing community of business partners, experts, advisors and investors. The program kicks off in September 2014, with 10 Saturday all day classes.

SLP was founded in Boston, USA and now runs in 21 cities in 10 different countries. In all, SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million from the world’s and include startups like Ixigo, DeliveryChef, NatureBox, SideTour, Micello, Momelan, Novira, Runkeeper, Sharypic, Schooladmissions, Shareaholic, Solar Junction, Voicetap and Ubersense. 10 startups founded by our Fellows have been acquired including Savored (Groupon), TomNod (Digital Globe), Kaptur (Aha Life), Momelan (Kinetic Concepts) and Fondu (airbnb).

Here is the pitch for why you should consider joining SLP from PuneTech’s article about SLP when it was first launched in Pune in 2012.

Startup Leadership Program is a NOT FOR PROFIT entity, registered in US and INDIA. What will entrepreneurs get out of SLP?

  • Avoid entrepreneurial mistakes – as you learn from your peer group (that comprises of entrepreneurs from different background) and mentors (serial entrepreneurs, VCs, bankers, etc) and experts.
  • Get solutions to your growth challenges – as you get feedback from super peer group and mentors.
  • Connect to VCs/Investors and raise funding. Make real-life pitches.Understand what VC looks for.
  • Get an understanding of term-sheet, legal aspects and exiting ventures.
  • Be part of high-profile and high impact SLP Global alumni that will help you to scale up.
  • Last but not least, make friends with entrepreneurs, as all know – its lonely at the top.

Apply here. For more information about Pune’s SLP, contact pune@startupleadership.com.

Pune based AdSparx gets Rs 3.5cr Angel Funding From @IANetwork (@manish_saarthi @sharads)

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DealCurry is reporting that Pune based AdSparx, a company that allows video publishers to seamlessly and automatically insert ads into their videos at runtime has received Rs 3.5cr in angel funding from Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels, and GrowX Ventures

Excerpts from the announcement:

LetsVenture CEO Manish Singhal and Indian Angel Network’s Sharad Sharma acted as lead investors for the deal.

About the company:

The company was founded in 2012 by former Patni Computers employee, Kunal Lagwankar. AdSparx uses a server side technology to serve device independent, high quality, targeted, pre & mid-roll video ads for linear TV, live events and videos on demand. It counts NexGTV, Vodafone, Airtel and Sony Liv among its notable clients. The startup has done mid-roll ads for online streaming of Indian Premier League, French Open and New Zealand Cricket Series in the past.

About the product:

  • AdSparx’s unique real-time targeted Ad Serving technology works for all devices, irrespective of OS or form-factor, while retaining smooth switching between video and Ad content for a seamless experience
  • Linear TV, Live Events & On-demand Video
  • AdSparx works with your existing content delivery set up and requires no modification. AdSparx easily integrates with Wowza, Adobe FMS and Apache servers and content delivery networks
  • ‘Lowest’ time to Market: A single point of integration on your servers for all your Ad serving needs, AdSparx does not require any changes in your client apps and cuts down your time to market drastically

About the team:

The founders all seem to be people who worked in Patni, founded Novix Media in 2005, then joined Patni in 2008, and finally started AdSparx in 2012. Details:

In case you find such things interesting, here is a US patent application (not yet granted) that AdSparx has filed.

Read the full article

Job Mela 2014 for final year Engineering Students by @PuneStartups/@CSIPune

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It’s back! The Pune Open Coffee Club and The Computer Society of India, Pune are organizing a job mela for final year engineering students on Saturday, 14th June, at Cummins College Pune, from 9:30am to 4:30pm.

This event is free for students, as well as for startups. Startups who wish to be part of this, please signup here, and read the For Companies section below. Students who wish to be part of this please read the For Students section below.

For Companies

We already have 850+ students signed up, and we expect the number to go up even more by the time of the event. These are engineering students who are interested in jobs with Pune startups.

On 14th June, you will get a chance to give a short pitch about your company to the students, interact with selected students, shortlist the ones you like and interview them right away (or schedule an interview for later). And this is free for you.

So sign up here.

If you’ve been to a previous job or internship mela organized in Pune, you know that handling 1000+ students is a complete mess. Hence this time is a bit different. We are making all students go through an online programming test by ReliScore, and only students who do well in the test will be allowed to attend the event.

In other words, you get only good students, and you will not be inundated with resumes of unemployable students.

What are startups expected to do there?

Get marketing material – lots of it. Visiting cards, leaflets and what not. Get banners – you will have one table of size 3ftx4ft for you. Get a laptop with a running PPT. Your main aim is to attract the best students to your company.

This must be costing a bomb?!

NO! This event is totally FREE of cost. However, prior registration is mandatory.

For Students

Students: You don’t find so many startups in one place, at one time, all accessible to interact with you!

Why work with startups?

Startups are cool. Startups are where the action is. The experience that you would get in a startup in a few months, would be better than what you would get from large corporations in a few years. In startups, you get an exposure to the various moving parts of a company – coding, testing, admin, HR, marketing… you name it! More than all of this, you get to work directly with founders of the company, who will one day make it very big (like Google, Twitter?).

What do startups want from me?

Life at startups can be very exciting – but you need to be prepared to give more than 100%. Many startups work on cutting edge technologies, and there is going to be a huge learning curve for you, to be able for you to meaningfully contribute to the company. So, it requires dedication, patience and a positive attitude.

Ok, as a student, what should I do?

Get in touch with the T&P officer of your college. An online programming test has been arranged for 10th June with participating colleges, and you need to find out the procedure for being part of this event.

If you are a student of a Pune college, and your college is not participating in this event, please ask them to contact CSI Pune (or send mail to punetech@punetech.om and we can forward it to the appropriate people), before 9th June.

If you’re a student from a college that is not participating, or if you’re a student from outside Pune but are willing to work in Pune, and willing to travel to Pune on 14th, then please visit ReliScore.com on 11th June for instructions on how you might be able to get into the event on a wild card entry.

Tech Events this Week: Node.js, OpenStack, Papers we Love, Angel Investing & TEDxPuneSalon

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(Paid) Angel Investing Made Easy (for HNIs)

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 10:00am – 4:00pm
  • Location: Training Room, Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

The workshop is aimed at training HNIs and prospective investors on acquiring rudimentary knowledge of investing early stage risk capital in start-ups.

It is structured to impart an understanding on developing and maintaining a deal flow of start-ups, enabling discussions with practicing angel investors and learning through case studies which reflect the realities of angel investing in India, for HNIs and new angels in India.

Who Should Attend:

HNI’s & Prospective Investors, Aspring & existing Angel Investors

Agenda:

  • Angel Investing 101 – Basics of Angel Investment
  • Investment Mechanics- Valuations, Term Sheet Primer & Understanding Shareholder Agreement
  • How Syndicates Work- A recommended way to make our first investment participate in syndicates
  • Live Pitches- Experience 4 Live Pitches by Startup at the workshop

About the Trainer – Manish Singhal

Manish is an Angel Investor, and Founder of LetsVenture, an online platform for startups to raise early stage investment.

Before starting LetsVenture, Manish spent many years @ Motorola. He joined Ittiam & Sling Media in their initial stages and helped build world-class products & teams right from scratch. He has close to two decades of experience building technology products & teams. He is an ex-member of MPEG committee and holds two patents to his name. He holds a bachelors degree from IIT Kanpur.

Manish serves on the board of companies ranging from technology businesses, consumer businesses, e-commerce to employability like Freshersworld.com, Moontara Technovations Apartment Adda. He is also an active mentor on the CIIE Mentor Edge Panel (IIM Ahmedabad), Start-up Village (Kochi) and Venture Labs (Standford University).

About Venture Center

Entrepreneurship Development Center (Venture Center) – a CSIR initiative – is a not-for-profit company hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center strives to nucleate and nurture technology and knowledge-based enterprises by leveraging the scientific and engineering competencies of the institutions in the Pune region in India. The Venture Center is a technology business incubator specializing in technology enterprises offering products and services exploiting scientific expertise in the areas of materials, chemicals and biological sciences & engineering.

Fees and Registration

This workshop costs Rs 1500. Please register here: http://em.explara.com/event/aime-pune

For more information, contact: Miss. Lipika Biswas, Venture Center, Phone: +91-20-20250934/64011024; Email: eventsdesk@venturecenter.co.in

See also: http://www.ipface.org/workshops.php

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Doo Things Meetup: Papers We love

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 10:00am – 1:00pm
  • Location: 402A, Town Square, Above Dorabjees, Airport Road, Viman Nagar, Pune

There is a Paper’s We Love meetup group.

We really like the concept and want to see how it works here in our community.

So, I want to propose we do a meetup around the theme.

Summarized :

What was the last paper within the realm of computing you read and loved? What did it inspire you to build or tinker with? Come share the ideas in an awesome academic/research paper with fellow engineers, programmers, and paper-readers. Lead a session and show off code that you wrote that implements these ideas or just give us the lowdown about the paper (because of HARD MATH!). Otherwise, just come, listen, and discuss.

If you have read a paper and found it really interesting and want share your thoughts on it – welcome!

If nobody comes up with a paper, I will post a link – and we can take it from there.

Does this sound fun?

About Doo Things Meetup Group

Let’s get together for doo-ing lots of activities related to Computers, Arts, History, Education, Open Hardware, Software, Robotics.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Doo-Things/events/179548542/

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TechNext Event: Overview of OpenStack

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 4:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Synerzip Softech Recreational Area, 3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud

Agenda:

Overview of OpenStack

  1. Brief history of OpenStack and its predecessors.
  2. High Level Architecture of OpenStack.
  3. Basic OpenStack download, configure and install.
  4. Overview of OpenStack Development model and ecosystem.
  5. Component description : OpenStack Compute
  6. Component description : OpenStack Image store
  7. Component description : OpenStack Block storage
  8. Component description : OpenStack Object store
  9. Component description : OpenStack Identity
  10. Component description : OpenStack Networking.

Speaker: Mithlesh Thukral

About Tech Next

Tech Next is a group which meets twice in a month in Pune, once for expert speakers and once for unconference at Synerzip’s recreation area. This group discuss topics pertaining to IT world from Developer centric technologies, QA centric practices and technology and Agile practitioners experiences.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechNext/events/175312382/

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PuneJS Meetup: Intro to Node.js

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 4:00pm – 6:00pm
  • Location: Mediaocean, Suite 304, Bldg A, GO-Square IT Park Wakad Rd, Wakad

An Introduction to node.js, server side javascript technology.

About PuneJS Meetup Group

This meetup was started to get the Javascript buzz going in Pune. Let’s meet up and join hacking!

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/PuneJS/events/179783822/

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WordPress User Group Pune: Making Money using WordPress (not ads) – real life case studies

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 5:30pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: Cafe Chokolade, FC Road

In the next meetup on 7th June, Manish Chauhan (blogger at http://jagoinvestor.com will be talking about How Bloggers are making money using wordpress (No , I am not talking about advertisements) .

There will be 2 case studies discussed on what kind of things can be done using wordpress and one can earn money using some tried and tested models .

Any new wordpress user or even an expert can attend this short 2 hours meet. The idea is to spread the knowledge about wordpress and help each other to evolve as a strong group and extend support. You dont need to be an expert in the area of wordpress to be part of this meet, just be part of it and we all will enjoy …

At the end of 2 hours meet

  • You will take back some new ideas you can work on
  • You will learn about models where you work less and earn more
  • You will network with other WordPress Enthusiasts
  • Spend some quality time to take your blog to next level

About the Pune WordPress User Group

This group is for anyone interested in discussing WordPress, be it users, developers, bloggers or beginners. We intend to meet every month, one of the item in every meetup would be to decide the agenda for next meet up.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-WordPress-User-Group/events/181013502/

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TEDxPuneSalon: Monthly event by @TEDxPune

  • Date: Sat, 7 Jun 6:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: Pagdandi Books Chai Cafe, Baner Pashan Link Road

Pune is known for ideas worth spreading – from swaraj, quit India, women’s emancipation, swadeshi, super-computing to cell sciences and molecular genetics. Pune has led India – and even the world – and been an ideas capital for centuries. Pune’s thinkers and doers have inspired better citizenship and strived to design better cities.

TEDxPune will strive to collect together contemporary ideas worth spreading to inspire better cities and citizenship. It will seek out ideas that inspire people to live lives with purposes beyond oneself. It will seek to spread ideas that inspire better cities and citizenship.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/424019761071713/

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Tech Events this Week: Linux Kernel; Google Dev Hackathon; Java 8; Practical Go; & various startup events

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TiE Pune: Unitus Seed Fund Mixer for Startups

  • Date: Tue, 27 May 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

Agenda: Lots of networking plus discussions led by guest speakers:

  • Five Ways to Open an Impact VC’s Wallet & Three Ways to Snap it Shut – led by Dave Richards, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Unitus Seed Fund
  • Learnings & Challenges Faced by Funded Entrepreneurs – with
    • Peter Frykman, Founder & CEO, Driptech; and
    • Kunal R Sachdev, Managing Director, Caravan Craft Retail – New store in Pune!

For more details see: https://em.explara.com/event/tiepuneUSF27may

About TiE Pune

Pune chapter of TiE – A non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anyone to attend. Register here: https://em.explara.com/event/tiepuneUSF27may

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Geeks of Pune Seminar: Linux System Software Development

  • Date: Wed, 28 May 5:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

Talk #1: Evolution of Linux Networking Stack

Kiran will talk about evolution of Linux Networking Stack. Main focus of the talk is introduction to the Linux Networking Stack from an application perspective, how networking calls are handled inside the TCP/IP stack and network device drivers. This is followed by brief a introduction to Wi-Fi driver and Networking Stack.

About the Speaker – Kiran Divekar

Kiran has more than 13 years of experience in Linux System Software, Networking and Embedded Systems. He has delivered several sessions on Kernel programming, Introduction to Linux Architecture and more for GEEP and other institutes. Kiran has worked in global corporations such as Marvell and Nevis Networks. He currently works at a Technology Startup. Kiran is recognized for his understanding of Linux Kernel Stack and embedded systems architecture. Kiran has completed B.E. (Computers) from College of Engineering Pune.

Talk 2: Overview of Linux Storage Stack

Mithlesh’s talk would give an overview of the Linux Storage Stack and would cover various layers in the Storage stack. Each of these layer is a wider subsystem. This talk would be restricted only to aspects which directly impact how the IO flows in the Storage stack

About the Speaker – Mithlesh Thukral

Mithlesh is currently working as Principal Software Engineer at Symantec. He has engineered the Linux Kernel Components ranging from Storage Subsystem, Memory Managers, Interrupt handlers to Network stack during last 8 plus years. His interests include improving the scalability and performance of enterprise class products. Mithlesh has completed B.E. ( Computers ) from Pune Institute of Computer Technology.

About Geeks of Pune

GEEP is a non-profit group for software professionals in Pune. GEEP was founded in 2006 by a few Linux enthusiasts in Pune. Since then it has grown to more than 300 members. GEEP mailing list is hosted at yahoo groups. GEEP is also hosted on facebook.

GEEP members guide BE projects for students form various colleges in Pune. We have organized workshops for Linux software professionals and engineering students from Pune. These workshops were typically structured as presentations and programming demonstrations. The presentations were on kernel debugging, kernel developments, embedded systems, networking, module programming and more. Programming demonstrations included module programming examples and booting/programming on an XSCALE embedded board. Some for these workshops were conducted in engineering colleges and Pune university, rest were conducted at companies.

For more information, see http://www.geeksofpune.in/about.php

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. To register, please email or call Praveen Khurjekar, praveen@geeksofpune.in, 9823792621.

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SLP Pune Event: Early Days of an Entrepreneur : The struggle, triumphs, highs, and lows

  • Date: Fri, 30 May 6:00pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Venture Center, NCL Innovation Park, Pashan Road

The early days in the life of an entrepreneur are the most challenging & uncertain– physically, mentally & spiritually. It’s not a career choice but a way of life as Steve Blank puts it. Join us to hear from Pune’s very own three buzzing startup founders as they share early days in their startup life, their ideas, challenges, pivots, success, highs and lows.

Panel Members :

  • Janardan Prasad: COO and Co-Founder, www.autowale.in
    • An Engineer from IITK, Janardan has worked with Media Labs and then as IT consultant for payment products in North America for several years. He loves Puzzles, Tennis & Travel, while managing Operations, Finance, Products and HR at Autowale.
  • Mitesh Bohra: Co-founder & CEO – www.savetime.com
    • Mitesh Bohra has over 18 years of software industry experience, primarily in the US where he gained a wide breadth of invaluable expertise in strategy, sales, and account management while consulting for companies like: GE, Merck, Disney, and Lockheed Martin. As a serial entrepreneur, his current venture; Savetime.com is a vision to make positive impact in the lives of patient community in India. Mitesh has an engineering degree in Electronics from India and dual MBA degrees from Columbia Business School, New York and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, California.
  • Sagar Apte: CEO & Founder at www.CarIQ.com
    • Sagar is the CEO and Founder at CarIQ. CarIQ is India’s first connected car platform and was working under stealth mode for the last 18 months. Sagar has over 15 years of experience across diverse domains such as product management, product marketing, sales, support, engineering, and operations.

About Startup Leadership Program

The Startup Leadership Program (SLP) is a highly selective, 80-hour, 6-month world-class training program and lifetime network for outstanding founders and innovators. SLP was founded in 2006, operates in 23 Cities with 1300 fellows & 1000+ startups. SLP Fellows have founded 700+ companies that have raised $400 million, and include breakthrough and award-winning startups like Savored, TomNod, Ixigo, NatureBox, SideTour, Micello, Momelan, Novira, Runkeeper, Sensobi, Shareaholic, Solar Junction, Voicetap and Ubersense.

Website: http://www.startupleadership.com

About Venture Center

Entrepreneurship Development Center (Venture Center) – a CSIR initiative – is a Section 25 company hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center strives to nucleate and nurture technology and knowledge-based enterprises by leveraging the scientific and engineering competencies of the institutions in the Pune region in India. The Venture Center is a technology business incubator supported by the Department of Science & Technology’s National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board .

Website: http://www.venturecenter.co.in

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://townscript.com/ENTREPRENEUR

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Pune Google Developers Group: Hackathon

  • Date: 30 May to 1 Jun
  • Location: Synerzip (3rd Floor, Revolution Mall, next to City Pride, Kothrud, Pune)

Hackathon is going to be a 40 hour event wherein individual or group can build something awesome. This time we have decided to have three different tracks for Hackathon.

  • Build something in cloud and Analytics
  • Choose a product idea from a collection of product ideas and build it.
  • Work on your own product idea.

Unlike in the past, this time we have extended the duration to 40 Hours so that teams will have time to validate the idea they are trying to build. We will also have a panel of mentors and tech consultants present at the event. Participants can interact with them for additional inputs.

About Pune-GDG

Pune GDG is the place for developers to discuss google technologies. Pune Google Developer Group meets on the once every month. Our members are using or want to learn more about developing applications using Google technology, including: – Google Ajax APIs – maps, search, visualization, gadgets (JavaScript), Android – mobile development (Java) – Google App Engine – scalable cloud computing (Python and Java) – Google Web Toolkit – web development platform (Java) – Project Hosting.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Pune-GDG/events/181020982/

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(Paid) Advanced Excel 2010 Training

  • Date: Sat, 31 May 9:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: Karve Road, Pune

Advanced Excel 2010 training at Pune, for managers by Alpesh Vasant.

See http://emaila.gtechtraining.in/gacademy/vm.php?m=7&u=d3373e6fb5329b76c60e6a3d64990d3a for more details.

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Expertalks: Java 8

  • Date: Sat, 31 May 10:00am – 1:30pm
  • Location: Equal Experts Office, 4-C, 2nd Floor, Cerebrum IT Park, B3 Kumar City, Kalyani Nagar

After much anticipation & fanfare, Java 8 was released in March this year.

The good news?? It definitely evolves the way you code with Java.

Equal Experts has already started working with Java 8 on commercial projects.

In this session, they would share initial experience of working with Java 8.

Through demonstrations of live code and a hands-on workshop, explore the exciting new features of Java 8 and how they contribute to making your code cleaner and leaner than ever before… 🙂

Workshop

Participants will solve a simple use case with Java 8 where they get to use its new features. They will also understand how they could approach Java programming in a more evolved way

Demo

Apart from live code and also showcase of some production code from a recent projects.

Pre-Requisites:

  • Knowledge & experience of Java programming language… :-).
  • For the workshop, please get a laptop installed with Java 8 and your favourite IDE. Recommended: IntelliJ Idea Community Edition as it has the best support for Java 8.

PRESENTER:

Anil Tarte is one of the most tenured members of Equal Experts India. He has successfully led the development & delivery efforts for many of our greenfield projects. His most recent assignment was on Java 8…

About EXPERTALKS

EXPERTALKS is a series of free tech workshops organized at the Equal Experts office in Pune. See http://www.meetup.com/expertalks/ for more information about the EXPERTALKS meetup group.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/expertalks/events/179983882/

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Golang Pune Meetup: Practical Go

  • Date: Sat, 31 May 10:45am – 1:00pm
  • Location: Josh Software New Office, A 13/14 Sunflower Building, 5th Floor, Survey No. 77/1, Mhalunge Baner Road, Baner

Agenda

  • Ankur Gupta (@originalankur) of ThinkLABS, Mumbai (http://www.thinklabs.in/) will talk about their software product written in Go (Think Visual Programming Language – Go Powered Software Showcase).
  • Open discussion with Satish Talim about the first-ever GopherCon in Denver, CO, USA.
  • If anyone else wants to give a presentation, discuss anything about Go feel free to do so.

About Golang Pune Group

Meetup group for developers interested in the Go programming language.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/Golang-Pune/events/181656612/

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Pune Open Coffee Club Meet: Marketing Planning for Startups

  • Date: Sat, 31 May 4:30pm – 7:00pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

As start-up founders do you wonder – Why don’t you get right kind of customers? Why don’t you get repeat business? Why don’t you get right price? Why don’t customers refer you? How you get unplanned marketing bills? You know but don’t understand your competition.

To get answer to these and many more marketing questions, participate in this free session.

The topics covered will be

  • What is Marketing?
  • Difference between Marketing and Sales
  • How to plan Marketing for your startup
  • How to execute the Marketing Plan

About the Speaker: Dr. Sachin Bhide

Sachin is a Marketing Consultant and founder of Eha Management Consultancy. He gives marketing advice to entrepreneurs since 2009. He had award winning work experience as an employee in industries like Technical Communication, Information Technology, Banking, and Education for 8 years. He has received excellent Corporate Trainer award. He is an award winning speaker, had received Best Speaker and Best Table Topic Master award at Toastmaster club in California, USA. He is PhD in Marketing Management, he researched nature of IT exports of Pune based selective Indian companies. He has done masters in business administration and commerce. He is a founder of Business Book Readers’ Club in Pune. His articles are published in leading publications like Sakal newspaper and Sampada a monthly publication of MCCIA. His opinions are highly sought after by media like DNA newspaper, ‘Aakashvani’ radio station, and Zee 24 Taas a leading news channel.

About Pune Open Coffee Club

With over 10000 members, the Pune Open Coffee Club is the largest forum for startups and entrepreneurs in Pune. It is an open forum, and anyone can join for free. See the PoCC website for more details.

Fees

This event is free and open to all. Please register here: http://punestartups.org/events/event/show?id=1988582%3AEvent%3A332113&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_event

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Tech Events this Week: Beer & Startups; Product Mgmt; Agile; CloudStack; TiEPune

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Beer & Business for first-time Founders of Startups

  • Date: Thu, 22 May 8:00pm – 10:00pm
  • Location: Independence Brewing Company, Mundhwa

A strictly informal meet-up ONLY for first generation start-ups. You don’t need to worry about pitches, investors or clients! Simply register and come on down for an evening of great beers and great conversations with Pune’s growing community of entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/759879417365422/

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(Paid) A Workshop on the Foundations of Product Management

  • Date: Fri, 23 May 10:00am – 5:00pm
  • Location: 5th Floor, A-Wing, MCCIA, ICC Towers, SB Road

With rise of IT product companies in India, there is significant demand to spread awareness, get clarity and enhance knowledge base on various functions and roles of product management – understanding the principals and streamlining the product team. Role of product managers and marketers is evolving rapidly. Industry is striving of good product managers. To address these challenges, NASSCOM joins hands with India Product Management Association to create a long run program on Product Management. Product Management Platform 1, a-day long workshop on various aspect of Product Management function, is the first event in this journey.

  • Module 1: Introduction to Product Management
    • Introduction to Products, and how it is different from solutions and services.
    • Why do Good Products fail?
    • What makes products succeed?
    • What is Product management and Role of Product managers?
  • Module 2: Product Management Process and Life Cycle
    • Overview of product management process
    • Overview of PDLC processes and how to control PDLC
    • What makes a product manager successful?
    • Tips and suggestions for becoming an effective product manager

About the Speaker – Suhas Kelkar

As CTO for the APAC region at BMC Software, he is responsible for driving technical and strategic roadmap of BMC Software products and solutions. As a Director of Incubator Team, he is also responsible for driving incubation and culture of innovation globally for BMC Software. His areas of focus are Business Service Management (BSM) with emphasis on Cloud Computing and Data Centres of tomorrow and Consumerization of IT – adopting be st practices from consumer world and harnessing it for the enterprise. Suhas is also very passionate about the field of Product Management and is the founder and President of IPMA (India Product Management Association) Pune chapter.

Prior to BMC Software, Suhas was Vice President of Product Management at Digité. Over the span of over 17 years Suhas has worked on various software product companies such as Rational Software/IBM, Serena Software and Philips Medical Systems. Suhas has diverse experience of architecting, designing and delivering successful software products. He led the UML Modelling team at Rational before IBM’s acquisition. Later on at Pacific Edge Software, he was responsible for building a market leading, enterprise scale Project Portfolio Management software.

Suhas holds a MS in Robotics from University of Florida and MBA from FIT. He has High Impact Global Role (2012) and Thought Leadership (2013) awards in his kitty.

About NASSCOM

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is a trade association of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organisation.

NASSCOM is a global trade body with over 1500 members, of which over 250 are companies from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China. NASSCOM’s member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce.

NASSCOM facilitates business and trade in software and services and encourages the advancement of research in software technology. NASSCOM is headquartered in New Delhi, India with regional offices in the cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata.

Fees and Registration

This event costs Rs. 750 for members of NASSCOM and IPMA, and Rs. 1000 for others. Register here: http://pmp1-pune.doattend.com/

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Agile Coffee Talk: Is Agile Fragile?

  • Date: Fri, 23 May 4:00pm – 6:30pm
  • Location: BMC Software, SB Road

Let’s play around the theme – “Is Agile Fragile?” and here are Agenda Highlights:

  1. 20 mins – Meet & Greet followed by setting some ground rules and expectations! (don’t miss this part if you want to get the flow of
    at’s happening here)
  2. 30 mins – Part A – Agile Collaboration Game filled with role plays, discussions and keen observation and learning around the theme
  3. Break for coffee (Carry your coffee to your table)
  4. 50 mins – Part B – Communication Game followed by Group Discussions, and individual experience sharing
  5. 25 minutes – retrospective and close

Facilitators : We don’t have any concept of Power points. The talks are typically facilitated by the learned Coaches of SolutionsIQ. The

Coffee Talks are for everyone to participate and the facilitator will only guide the conversation and activities that the guests want to do

About Agile Coffee Talk

Hosted by SolutionsIQ, Coffee talks are informal gathering of lean and agile practitioners and followers over a Coffee

Our objective is to enable free flow of conversation on topics of significance to bring better ways to think, innovate , develop and work collaboratively. In two hours we cover various topics of interest in facilitated group discussions and activities under a theme. Do note this is a forum for discussions, food for thought and NOT for drawing conclusions always.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://coffeetalk-may-pune.doattend.com

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Pune CloudStack Meetup: Deployment at TomTom; AMQP/RabbitMQ

  • Date: Fri, 23 May 4:30pm – 6:30pm
  • Location: 7th floor, SICSR, (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, near Om Market, Model Colony)

Agenda:

  • 4:30pm – 4:45 pm : Introductions, Setting the agenda
  • 4:45pm – 5:30 pm : CloudStack Deployment at TomTom-Gurudatta
  • 5:30pm – 6:15 pm : AMQP and RabbitMQ/CloudStack
  • 6.15pm – 6.30 pm: Networking, Tea and Snacks

About Pune Cloudstack Meetup

This group is for CloudStack enthusiasts – Developers, IT Admins, Open Source Contributors to learn and share knowledge about this popular Cloud platform. This group is interested in Open Source, Cloud Computing, IaaS, Virtualization, Building private cloud with CloudStack, Customizing CloudStack

### Fees and Registration

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My Story @TiEPune: Peeyush Rai, Co-Founder and CTO of Canvera. Interview by @aparanjape

  • Date: Fri, 23 May 6:30pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

Peeyush is the co-founder and CTO at Canvera.com, where he heads the technology and design services delivery. Over the past 20 years, Peeyush has been involved in building various products and technologies that have helped solve real problems in consumer internet, mobile and enterprise space. Prior to Canvera, Peeyush worked at various enterprise software companies based in the U.S. and also helped build the India R&D centers for a few of them.

Peeyush is passionate about technology, gadgets, photography, sports, startups, entrepreneurship etc. He is an avid runner and has run a few full marathons.

About TiE Pune My Story Sessions!

“My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur”

This program is created to celebrate entrepreneurship and bring stories from successful entrepreneurs in their own words. The invited speakers will share their entrepreneurial journeys and talk about lessons learned, mistakes they wish they avoided, and key decisions that helped make their venture successful.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anybody to attend. Please register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/tie-pune-my-story-session-with-peeyush-rai-co-founder-and-cto-canveracom-tickets-11644261299

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TiE Pune: Unitus Seed Fund Mixer for Startups

  • Date: Tue, 27 May 6:30pm – 8:30pm
  • Location: Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground Floor, Wing A, ICC Trade Center, SB Road

Agenda: Lots of networking plus discussions led by guest speakers:

  • Five Ways to Open an Impact VC’s Wallet & Three Ways to Snap it Shut – led by Dave Richards, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Unitus Seed Fund
  • Learnings & Challenges Faced by Funded Entrepreneurs – with
    • Peter Frykman, Founder & CEO, Driptech; and
    • Kunal R Sachdev, Managing Director, Caravan Craft Retail – New store in Pune!

For more details see: https://em.explara.com/event/tiepuneUSF27may

About TiE Pune

Pune chapter of TiE – A non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.

Fees and Registration

This event is free and open for anyone to attend. Register here: https://em.explara.com/event/tiepuneUSF27may

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Pune-based Sci/Math Learning Platform @FunctionSpace get funding from @NexusVP

Money Matters, , , , ,

(Sorry, this news is being posted here a little late; I was on vacation when this news broke, and decided that a late update is better than no update at all.)

Pune-based Function Space, an online “social” platform for learning science and maths has recently raised seed funding from Nexus Venture Partners.

Function Space is trying to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education fun and engaging, something that is seriously been missing from our education system

Function Space, already offers a strong community consisting of users from over 190 countries, including students, professors and researchers from MIT, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, Indian Institute of Technology campuses, Indian Institute of Science and other prestigious institutions.

The funding will be used for expansion: of their content, their tools, and their customer reach.

Function Space was founded in 2013 by Adit Gupta, Sakshi Majmudar and Sumit Maniyar.

Note, this makes NexusVP the most Pune-friendly venture capital firm with 9 investments in Pune.

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