Proto.in Pune Edition - Must attend for everyone in the Start-Up Ecosystem
The 6th edition of India's Premier Start-up event - July 25th 2009, Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, Pune: Witness India's 15 most promising start-ups on showcase and be zapped in the brainstorming and networking at India's premier start-up event. You don't want to miss this!
-- After its resounding successes in its past five editions across three different cities, Proto.in is back on 25th July at Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, Pune to continue to strengthen and promote the start up ecosystem, as India’s biggest and most awaited start-up event. Proto.in has built an unmatched reputation of being the one event the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem looks forward to, across the length and breadth of India.
What's Special This Proto.in?
This edition of Proto.in intends to take a solid leap and focus on policies that support Start-ups both in IT and non IT sectors. The start-up community at Proto.in will analyze and understand how best to leverage the existing policies and in what ways it can get involved with key stakeholders such as the government in strengthening the policies further.
Ganesh Natarajan (CEO – Zensar Technologies, Chairman - IT & ITES CII and Member - Chairmen's Council NASSCOM) will deliver the keynote address to the community during this edition.
And further for the first time, the audience will get an in-depth analysis on Intellectual property rights and how it affects start ups, by renowned experts and we will see focus move beyond dot com to non internet ventures and how to be a part of this space.
The Proto.in Story So Far
Over the last five editions, Proto.in has showcased close to 100 start ups- of whom many have leveraged the platform to close funding, develop new business opportunities, create media traction and even connect with potential hires. Some of the Proto success stories –
· NextBiT Computing has closed several major deals post their proto.in showcase
· IXiGO.com was funded by BAF Spectrum in 2008
· Lucid Software was funded by Mercatus Capital in 2009
· Lifeblob was funded by seedfund during 2008
· Yahoo acquired a stake in Tyroo during 2007
· Desi Crew received over 7 awards, including the woman entrepreneur of the year and has been angel funded.
And as iXiGO.com entrepreneur Aloke Bajpai, one of the Proto success stories says "Showcasing at Proto.in built good credibility for iXiGO.com in the start-up ecosystem in general and investors in particular. Proto.in kick started a lot of good things for us."
Be a Part of Proto.in Pune. Register Now!
Entrepreneurs, Experts, VCs, Students, Start ups will all converge at one place this monsoon and as Kunal kashikar, part of the Proto.in volunteering team at Pune puts it, "You don't want to miss Proto.in as it is one mega day of entrepreneurial activities unleashed!"
The seats are fast filling up and to register for the event, log on to http://www.proto.in/the-event/registrations/
For sponsorship opportunities, email sponsor@proto.in
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Notes to Editor
The Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization engendered by passionate individuals who are technologists or strategists or entrepreneurs or professionals or artisans or even all of these! These are individuals who are dedicated to promoting knowledge in all forms possible and organize world class conferences, seminars and workshops to aid the same. The foundation already has several big events to their credit includingProto.in,BarCampChennai, BlogCamp,Buzz140, SearchCamp and WikiCamp.