Thursday, May 8, 2014

More than 25 Indian start-ups will visit Silicon Valley:#NASSCOM

Starting 12th May, more than 25 Indian start-ups will embark on a journey to Silicon Valley (SF, USA), under the program - InnoTrek 2014. NASSCOM 10,000 Start-ups Program has organized a visit to Silicon Valley, just outside of San Francisco, CA, USA, with the aim to provide a global platform for innovative young businesses to ‘Collaborate, Connect and Co-create’. It will be a weeklong immersive experience in which these start-ups will have the opportunity to participate in meetings, workshops, networking sessions, investor panels, expert roundtables and corporate briefings with subject matter experts and peers.

Participants for InnoTrek 2014
•    Eka Software
•    Fusion Charts
•    Wingify
•    Ezetap
•    Capillary
•    Sapience
•    Global Delight
•    WebEngage
•    Shephertz
•    ContractIQ
•    Tookitaki
•    DataWeave
•    NowFloats
•    Pugmarks.me
•    Suyati (Voraka)
•    Flutura
•    InstaClique
•    Spatial Ideas
•    Framebench
•    Eventifier
•    Rolocule
•    Praxify
•    Germin8
•    Freecharge
•    Bookpad
•    TeliBrahama
•    Dfy Graviti

As the principal sponsor for NASSCOM 10,000 startups, Google for Entrepreneurs will be hosting the InnoTrek teams at Google headquarters for a half day of mentoring and trainings. Mr. Bridgette Beam, Global Entrepreneurship Manager at Google stated, “We have been impressed by the thriving entrepreneurial culture and great startups rising out of India. We are thrilled to host many of the nation's top founders coming to Silicon Valley through the InnoTrek.”

Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM expressed “NASSCOM has been working closely with Indian start-ups and is providing them access to the necessary platforms and resources that can bring positive change to their business operations. We are thankful to our partners like Google for extending their support in launching a one-of-its-kind start-up journey – InnoTrek. This is one of the major steps that is undertaken to provide a global platform for start-ups and bring India’s new wave of entrepreneurship to explore opportunities at a universal level.”