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POCC meetup – Footprint Ventures and Google M&A – 3 July

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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 Google Corporate Development on 3rd July, 5pm.

Footprint ventures will be there to meet startups and talk about what they look for when considering Series A investments.

Neeraj Arora will be representing Google’s Corporate Development and M&A division and will be there to interact with Startups.

The venue will be Seed Infotech’s office in Erandawana.

The complete address is:
Seed Infotech
Nalanda building, Opposite Gandhi Lawns,
Erandwane, Pune

Many thanks to Naredra Barhate, CEO of Seed Infotech for arranging place for the meeting.

Footprint Ventures are an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India. (http://footprintventures.com/index.htm).

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Footprint Venture entrepreneurs meeting – 3 July

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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 where they can informally interact with POCC member and talk for a few minutes on their prospective, what they look for, etc. The tentative plan is to have this meeting from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The venue is TBD. I will confirm the venue and meeting in a few days. If anyone can arrange for place, it will be great.

Footprint is an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India. They are targeting entrepreneurs seeking Series A investment.

The fund is the brainchild of Neill Brownstein, a co-founder of Bessemer Venture Partners. It aims to invest in companies with a strong India focus, i.e. companies with offerings that are either exclusively for India or for India & international markets.

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Pune OpenCoffee Club Meeting – 14 July

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What: Meeting of the Pune OpenCoffee Club – theme: startup mentoring, incubating and collaborations

When: Saturday, 14th June, 5pm

Where: Barista, Law College Road, opposite IndSearch

This is the (loose) agenda:

  • Synergising startups through Service Provider – Client relationships or just good old Fashioned Business Collaboration.
  • Freeman Murray will lead a discussion about the possibility of Y!Combinator style startup incubation in Pune
  • Hemant Joshi from nFactorial software will talk about his experiences and thoughts on mentoring startups and entrepreneurs in Pune

User groups in Pune & meetings this weekend: Java, Linux, Flex, Ruby

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I just added information about four user groups in Pune to the Groups and Organizations page in the PuneTech wiki: PuneRuby, PuneJava, Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), and Pune Flex Users Group (PuneFUG). Please take a look at their pages to get an idea of their activities. PLUG and PuneJava have regular meetings. PuneRuby and PuneJava have very active mailing lists. PuneFUG is relatively new, but it looks like they will have regular meetings.

PuneJava has a talk on agile development this Saturday at 6pm. (You should already know this; otherwise subscribe to PuneTech updates!) Just before that, at the same location, PLUG is holding its monthly meeting (see their website for details). Pune Flex Users Group is holding a  meeting on Sunday at 5pm (see their wiki for details).

Also, the Pune OpenCoffee Club (for entrepreneurs, and others interested in the startup ecosystem in Pune) is planning on a meeting next weekend. Chip in on that discussion if you want to influence the time/location or agenda.

Update: Rohit points out in the comments that there’s a Pune bloggers lunch on Saturday at 12:30pm.