Startup 50 Conference & Awards in BangaloreStartup 50 Conference & Awards in Bangalore

The Startup50 Conference and Awards was conceptualized with a very specific goal in mind: to recognize and reward entrepreneurs who've scaled up their ventures brilliantly.

The Conference track will revolve around understanding the art and science of building long-term businesses in various sectors - including technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, retail etc. - through discussions with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs.

The summit will culminate with an awards ceremony to recognize 50 of India's most promising startups.

nominate your startup

Calling startups founded after April 2012 to nominate themselves to The Smart CEO Startup50 Awards. It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase the various milestones your venture has crossed to India's leading entrepreneurs, business leaders, VC and PE investors, and professional CEOs. The process and methodology of identifying India's top 50 startups will be fair and transparent, and we'll share the details in this page shortly.

Startups contacted for data

Oct 22- Nov 18, 2018

Jury Meetings

Nov 10-18, 2018

Startup50 List Announced

Dec 8, 2018

Schedule

8 Dec 2018

The Taj West End, Bangalore

9.00 AM

Registrations

Registrations: 9.00 AM to 9.45 AM

9.45 AM

Welcome Address

Introduction by Prem Sivakumaran, Founder & Director, SmartCEO & Startup50. Prem will speak about '8 unique tactics adopted by highly successful entrepreneurs'.

10.00 AM

Growth Done Right

Rajiv Srivatsa, co-founder of Urban Ladder, one of India's leading online furniture and home decor brands, will speak on "Growth Done Right - Anecdotes from Urban Ladder".

Speakers:

Rajiv Srivatsa

10.30 AM

Consumer Tech: Fireside Chat

Fireside Chat titled 'Conversations on Scale'

Speakers:

11.15 AM

Coffee

Coffee Break for 15 minutes

11.30 AM

Venture Capital Segment

TED-Style Talks by 4 of India's most interesting Venture Capital Investors.

Speakers:

12.30 PM

Going Global with IDA Ireland

Suresh Elangovan - Founder, CEO & MD - Mindlogicx engages in a discussion of "Going Global" with Tanaz Buhariwalla - Director - India - IDA Ireland

Speakers:

1 PM

Lunch

Lunch

2 PM

Designing a Healthcare Business for Scale

Anand Anandkumar, co-founder & CEO, BugWorks, Leo Mavely, founder & CEO, Axio Biosolutions; Dr R. VL Ramprasad, Chief Operating Officer, MedGenome, speak about designing a healthcare business for scale. Moderated by TS Abinandan of Veda Corp.

Speakers:

3.00 pm

Talk by Amit Ramani of Awfis

TED-Style talk by Amit Ramani of Awfis

Speakers:

Amit Ramani

3.15 PM

Fintech Panel

3 FinTech/Financial Services entrepreneurs who're leading 3 extremely exciting businesses get together for a brainstorming session on building scale in the fintech segment.

Speakers:

4.00 PM

Coffee & Networking

Coffee Break, while the Ball Room gets rejigged for the Awards Night & Gala Dinner.

5 PM

What next after a terrific start.

Mr. TV Mohandas Pai, one of India's most exciting business leaders, venture capital investor, angel investor, and a major catalyst for the India entrepreneurship ecosystem inaugurates the awards night and delivers a keynote. He'll speak on the subject - You've had a wonderful start to your entrepreneurial journey. what next?

Speakers:

Mohandas Pai

6 PM

Idea to Exit

K. Ganesh of Growth Story, the venture building platform that has promoted BigBasket, Portea Medical, FreshMenu and a slew of rapid growth companies, will speak on a subject that he absolutely specialises in - Idea to Exit. This will be a fireside chat with one of the editors of Smart CEO.

Speakers:

K. Ganesh

6.45 PM

Session by Facebook

Keynote address by a Leader from Facebook India, the title sponsors for the event. Topic: Building Brands - Minimizing Friction Maximizing Efficiency'

Speakers:

Prasanjeet Dutta Baruah

7.30 PM

Startup50 2018 Awards Ceremony

Awards Night, Dinner & Cocktails

Past Speakers

Mohandas Pai Mohandas Pai, Chairman of the Board, Manipal Global

K. Ganesh Chairman of Portea Medical, Partner at Growth Story

Rajiv Srivatsa Rajiv Srivatsa, Co-founder & CPTO, Urban Ladder.

Anand Anandkumar PhD, Anand Anandkumar PhD, Co-Founder, CEO of Bugworks

Leo Mavely Leo Mavely, Founder & CEO, Axio Biosolutions

Prasanjeet Dutta Baruah Prasanjeet Dutta Baruah, Facebook India

Lizzie Chapman Lizzie Chapman, co-founder & CEO, Zest Money

Amit Patni Chairman, Nirvana Venture Advisors

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