The last two days at IIM Indore were exciting, enthusiastic and full of innovative ideas - i5 Summit, Central India’s largest Entrepreneurship Summit, was conducted here. Organized by IIM Indore and IIT Indore, the Summit saw a footfall of more than 3000, with 15 start-ups presenting their ideas to investors.
The second day of the Summit began with the flagship event GetFunded, which provided a platform to budding entrepreneurs to present their ideas to angel investors and also learn from their experiences.
The investor line-up was adorned with some of the greatest stalwarts in the space. Vikas Sarda (Unitus Capital), Vinayak Nath(Venture Catalysts), Sparsh Kumar(unicorn Ventures),Sanjay Kiran Enishetty (50kVentures), Rohit Krishna (weventures), Sonal
Sharda (3one4 Capital, Amit Pamnami (CIO, Rethinkers Accelerator), Amit Kumar Chaudhary (Upaya Social Ventures), Capt Salim (Ex-Sayaji, Indore currently funding Piano Project &Burger Singh) and Kanak Kothari.
The budding entrepreneurs came up with some of the most unique ideas. Indore Artist is a platform for onboarding artists & talents across genres & cities to help them showcase their work, gain recognition and have access to opportunities to earn. Arunabh is a CSR initiative school for differently abled learners which tries to identify kids with Special needs at an early stage, have intervention Programs and an outreach using the Anganwadi’s to bridge the learning gap. Upvaas is a revolutionary niche food start-up providing a varied range of gluten free, fresh and healthy options for people who are fasting. A lot of ideas were presented in the educational space. iMentor is a Ed-Tech start-up in the Digital Citizenship and Internet maturity domain which is targeted towards educating teens about cyber bullying, plagiarism, social disorientation and similar problems faced while accessing internet resources. Tutor247 is a personal mentorship start-up with online doubt solving capabilities where students can post their written doubts and get instant audio solutions to their problems from India’s Top Educators. QikMe, a versatile comprehensive software providing an innovative solution to the student community.
