Empresario 2013

Empresario – An event conceived by the students of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) has now become an annual entrepreneurship summit at EDI, Ahmedabad where EDI provides a platform to the startups across the country to showcase their products & services, pitch their ideas to a panel of esteemed and well known investor panel, plenary sessions and a lot more. Empresario was first organized in the year 2012 with a Startup fair where 20 companies had come forward to put up their stalls and display their products & services followed by a Charcha Session where the startups got an opportunity to get their problems & doubts answered by expertise of different sectors.

Empresario 2013 was organized on 1.3.2013, where it had a startup fair which had 30 companies displaying their new businesses & ideas; a Pitching event where 15 companies where given an opportunity to present their ideas to the investors to get funded out of which 3 startups were shown interest for by the investors and have been asked for further personal discussions. Chief Guest Mr. Pratul Shroff (eInfochips), Anand Lunia (India Quotient), and esteemed guests like Anil Joshi (Mumbai Angels), Shailesh Vikram Singh (Seedfund), Pooja Kumar (SME Joinup) honored the event, in the generous support of eChai – Point 10, GCCI Youth Wing, CII Young Indians, Sandesh, SME Joinup, with RadioCity as the Radio Partner. Guru Talks were delivered by Mr. Anil Joshi on ‘How to Pitch your Idea’ and by Mr. Shailesh Vikram Singh on ‘Leadership @ Startups’. A Charch session was held so that StartUps could seek advice on critical issues. Industry experts constituted Mr. Samir Parikh (NMIMS), Mr. Uttam Solanki (Lowe Lintas & Partners), Mr. Shrinjay Joshi (SJ Associates), Mr. Ranjeet Soni (IDBI).

The event, well organized by the PGDM –Business Entrepreneurship students Gaurav Gupta, Rounak Agrawal, Ritu Kedia, Srihari Patel & Sagar Punjabi under the esteemed guidance of the faculties Satya Acharya and Vivek Bhatt, they say that it’s not only a platform for the startups, but they also have got a lot to learn a lot and meet and know more people by being involved in organizing such events. These events give more learning than the classroom sessions as they have practical exposure to things. EDI plans this event on a bigger scale next year targeting a huge number of startups and more events to Empresario. EDI Empresario also had the privilege to host the eChai Demo day at EDI campus on 2.3.2013.