Last week, we announced the second batch of winners of InTech50 2016. It’s been a hectic month for all the stakeholders. Happy to announce the third and final batch of 15 companies that are selected for InTech50 2016: Aujas: Security Analytics and Visualization Platform Canvazify: Canvazify is a visual collaboration tool for team brainstorming and planning. Its a pinterest of team ideas...
InTech50, iSPIRT ’s flagship event is back. The first two editions have been very successful and InTech50 has become the ‘must-go-to’ platform for enterprise CXO’s and product entrepreneurs. Over the past two years, we have hosted CXO’s and business leaders from global companies like AllState, Citibank, HCC Insurance, Standard Chartered, Colgate Palmolive, Time, AirTel, Yes Bank, Exide Life...
# DigitalDesh spanned across 22 cities in 30 days to discover The Internet of Inside India. Amritsar to Kanyakumari An endeavor to study the behavioral patterns of entrepreneurs across different regions. To understand their digital business routines, their perceptions, the challenges and their desire to venture into new terrain. An important part of the activity was also to encourage & spread...
Mr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of INDIA, has been named as one of the world’s top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. After stepping into the shoes of Dr. Raghuram Rajan as Chief Economic Advisor, he is also a widely cited expert on the changing Balance of Global Economic power, as it pertains to INDIA & China. He is also the author of...
After a gap of 10 years, I recently returned to Bangalore to attend InTech50. The excitement started from the get go when I was flown from Delhi to Bangalore by an all-female Indigo cockpit – itself a reflection of our fast changing times. The age of tech startups in India has dawned. With 3500+ registered startups & counting, India is well poised to become the second largest startup...
Happy to announce the final and last batch of finalists (out of a total of 50) of InTech50 2015, a flagship event of iSPIRT and Terenne Global. Congratulations to them all! The first, second, third and fourth batch of finalists has already been announced in our previous blogs. Here is the final list – Crayon – MAYA is a personal concierge, powered by Crayon’s SimplerChoices™...
A behind the scenes account of how a showcase of 11 disruptive startups was put together in just 100 hours! If you’re reading this, I’m sure you are a part of the Indian product startup community in one way or the other. And unless you were living under a rock (which is fine, if you were busy hacking away or traveling to sell your product), you wouldn’t have missed that our Hon. IT Minister...
I used to come across a lot of people in India saying SME’s adopting software will always be DIM (Do-it-for-me) but then I thought hard about existing software users in India. Why would they use software day-in & day-out when they are not tech-savvy. That itch got me to work with my friend Tejaswi Raghurama to dig into stories of small business owners who are paying for software in India and...
ThinkInvestor is iSPIRT and ProductNation’s new initiative to serve as a catalyst between Venture Capital firms, Angels, Angel Networks and Entrepreneurs. It is to go beyond brochure ware and dig deeper into the whole life cycle of a typical investment; from introductions, funding, styles of on-going engagement, to exits. And in the process, capture their views on global and local trends...
A brief look at the state of the Indian startup ecosystem from the lens of design and how well it is understood or misunderstood. How the next generation of the technology startups are battling the design challenge in a globally connected ecosystem for the right consumer audience. According to Dave McClure the founding team of a startup should include the holy trinity of a hacker, hustler and a...
