Live
- Meat for Kids
- A captivating Kuchipudi ballet celebrating divine love and valour
- Second rung leaders of YSRCP clueless
- Divyanka Tripathi took up magic workshop to learn the art of magic for her new show
- Minister unveils design conclave poster
- Sonu Sood Appointed Brand Ambassador and Honorary Tourism Advisor for Thailand
- Ganja cultivation in heart of vizag
- BRS lodges complaint against CM, Minister
- When Preity Zinta embarrassed her mother by stuffing oranges in her clothes
- Cong MLA likens KCR to Godse
330 crore investment leads generated
The two-day ‘TiE-ISB Connect 2016’ came to a close on Thursday. Jointly organised by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) – Hyderabad Chapter and the Indian School of Business (ISB), this year’s edition focused on the topic ‘India Leapfrogs – Disruptive Technologies & New Business Models’.
The two-day ‘TiE-ISB Connect 2016’ came to a close on Thursday. Jointly organised by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) – Hyderabad Chapter and the Indian School of Business (ISB), this year’s edition focused on the topic ‘India Leapfrogs – Disruptive Technologies & New Business Models’.
The entrepreneurial community participated with enthusiasm. The inaugural ceremony was attended by BV Papa Rao, Advisor, Policy and Institutional Development to Govt. of Telangana, Suresh Challa, President - TiE Hyderabad, Rajendra Srivastava, Dean and Professor Marketing Strategy and Innovation, ISB, Jay Krishnan CEO, T-HUB and Ananth Rao, Chair, TiE-ISB Connect.
Award winners
Investor Connect
- Most Attractive Startup – MELTAG
- Most Attractive Investor – Kalari Capital
Mentor Connect
- Most Engaged –. Nandita Sethi and Surreesha Jagarlamudi
Guardian Angel
- Stumagz and ChitMonks
Best Hi-Tech
- Sugar Maths
Disruptive Business Model
- Orange Tree Technologies
Best Environment Impact
- Basil Enterprises
Upto Rs 330 crore worth investment interest leads were generated after over 100 one-on-one investor meetings at the event. An MoU was signed between TiE and National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) to impart technical research done by NHRC to aspiring entrepreneurs.
During his address, Jayesh Ranjan, IT Secretary announced that Transactional Analysts (TA) – a FinTech company promoting AADHAR based digital payments in India will be empowering small entrepreneurs to make incremental revenue by becoming its Digital Partner.
Upon the conclusion of the event Ananth Rao said, “We feel that this year’s theme certainly brought forward the much needed thought of creating a new product and service rather than following others.
Additionally four startups got a chance to pitch their idea and live funding negotiation with celebrity investor panel wherein two startups raised Rs 1.25 crore.”
