Event Partner

Since its establishment in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation has sought to identify and attack at their source the underlying causes of human suffering. The Foundation attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization, supporting breakthrough solutions to 21st century challenges. This is smart globalization: ensuring that the opportunities unleashed by globalization are accessible to more people, more fully, in more places — and that poor and vulnerable people are equipped to seize them. www.rockfound.org

 

Agriculture & Rural Innovations- High Growth Enterprise Partner

NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. It also has the mandate to support all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promote integrated and sustainable rural development and secure prosperity of rural areas. For further details please visit www.nabard.org



Agriculture & Rural Innovations- Emerging Enterprise Partner Rural Innovations Network (RIN) believes that many rural innovations can be successfully commercialized as micro-enterprises that benefit rural consumers and contribute to sustainable wealth creation. Once a model is established to transform ideas with potential into reality, a virtuous cycle comes in to operation, encouraging further innovation and wealth creation in rural areas. As an incubator, RIN impacts all aspects of this cycle - innovation, rural enterprise, rural users and wealth creation. RIN, through its programmes offer funding, mentoring, recognition, networking and marketing services to innovators. Over the last 7 years, RIN's work has directly impacted around 3 lakh house-holds and over 1000 innovators, generated sales of Rs 620 lakhs ($1.6 million) and created social returns/ consumer surplus worth Rs 1920 lakhs ($5 million). For further details, please visit www.rinovations.org



Supporting Partner TiE Mumbai is part of a global network of entrepreneurs which mentors, supports and facilitates the growth of new enterprises. TiE Mumbai was seeded in October 1999, and formally launched on December 7th, 1999. Today, TiE Mumbai is a multi-faceted organization and is an active TiE chapter dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship leading to wealth and employment creation. Details available on www.mumbai.tie.org



Deal Media Partner VCCircle.com is a leading publication dedicated to covering India's deal economy. It covers Indian investments, M&A, venture capital, private equity, investment banking, public equity, and start-ups and strive to make the lives of busy executives and entrepreneurs easier by providing relevant information and analysis in a short and crisp manner 24/7.

VCCircle.com has 100,000 unique readers a month and 1.5 million page views a month. It also has 15,000 daily newsletter subscribers which include an influential global community of "deal makers & entrepreneurs". The community ranges from CXO, COO, CFO, strategy head, M&A heads, fund managers, investment bankers, financial advisers, and policy makers. For further details, please visit www.vccircle.com