The Aeonian 2018, The largest Start-up event in India.

  New Delhi, May 12, 2018: 

Supported by #startupinida, Ministry of MSME, Digital India and in association with Deloitte and 100 Open Startups, The AEONIAN 2018 is a premier annual startup summit that recognizes and rewards the startup community in India. The Aeonian 2018 will be a three day event aiming at bringing all stakeholders of the startup ecosystem, under one roof. From investors to companies, from seed funded to IPO startups, from students to startup founders, they will all be present across the 4 categories of events –

Whether the idea to join is to gain a better insight to the Indian startup scene or it is to find the right startup to invest in, whether it is to network with potential investors or it is to find the latest technology or products, Aeonian 2018 satisfies to every need. All this while also celebrating the successes and dwelling over the failures of the startup world.

1.EXPO: Over 3000 Start -ups are expected to visit The AEONIAN 2018. Over 200 Start-up exhibitors will be displaying their venture to visiting investors and corporates.

2. Spotlight: A dedicated stage within the expo area, providing start-ups an exclusive opportunity to launch a new product or invite guests to a live demo of the product and have an interactive session.40+ PRODUCT LAUNCHES/ PRODUCT DEMOS – A 15 min live presentation, projected through a live screen.
3. Pitch:Bringing the best of the start -ups to vie for funding, the pitch will be conducted on day 2. The entries will be screened on the basis of their eligibility. Out of the entries received around 40 will be selected and segregated based on their stages of funding i.e. Seed, Series A, Series B and Series C+. Shortlisted participants in each category will be notified 2 weeks prior to date of the event. Each selected team will get a chance to project their startup to the investors present on the day of the pitch. The timeslot for each team will be 5 minutes for presentation followed by 2 minutes for Q&A.
4. Conference: Aimed at bringing the who’s-who of the star-tup ecosystem together, the conference will host distinguished speakers and successful entrepreneurs who will share their insights on different aspects of the Indian start-up ecosystem.These sessions are meant to provide a solid foundation to the start-up firms as they lay out a path for emerging entrepreneurs to learn from others. Each session will deal with diverse topics for different categories of audiences – 20+EXPERT SPEAKERS,300+CONFERENCE
5. AWARDS: The event will conclude with the awards night. The best of the SME & Start-up ecosystem will be awarded in 19 categories.

Anyone can nominate themselves under predetermined categories based on stages of funding i.e. Seed, Growth (Series A), Growth (Series B). These nominations will be screened and judged by a jury consisting of eminent industry stalwarts, CEOs, start-up heroes, angel investors and venture capitalists having a wide and rich experience of the start-up ecosystem. Winners will be presented with an Award trophy and will be eligible for a bouquet of benefits.

• Delegates/ eminent speakers from corporates, industry, academia will be invited for conference in the two-day summit
• Speakers including CXOs, angel investors, successful entrepreneurs, government bodies and alike will deliberate on startup landscape in India
• This includes panel discussions, motivational speeches, failed stories, key note speeches among others
• Topics of discussion will range from investment climate, disruptive technologies to prospective opportunities in the start-up space

Jury list for The Aeonian 2018

1. SUNIL SHUKLA, PH.D. (PSYCHOLOGY), DIRECTOR– ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF INDIA (GANDHINAGAR, GUJARAT) 
2. PRAKHAR AGARWAL, EARLYSTAGE VENTURE CAPITALIST AT VILCAP INVESTMENTS 

3. SURESH RAO, CHAIRPERSON– CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP S P JAIN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH 

4. NEERAJ GUPTA, FOUNDER & CEO AT FORMULATEIP

Neeraj is Co-founder and Director at Excubator which provides guidance and support needed to entrepreneurs for building a successful entrepreneurial practice. Neeraj is Founder and Managing Director at Lawcubator which is a technology firm in legal domain.

Neeraj is CEO at IIT Roorkee’sstart up incubator called TIDES. Neeraj is Co-founder of PanIIT Mentors which is a Nation Building Initiative under PanIIT.

5. G RAMACHANDRAN, MENTOR CAPITALIST

A mentor capitalist with impeccable entrepreneurial spirit and financial expertise has evolved beyond spreadsheets and scripted new success stories from new economy start-ups like Tower Capital, Image ads, Karrox, Eye Global Technologies ltd, Safe House, Pop Up Technologies and Has Juices and more. A perpetual quest to explore new horizons of a fast changing global scenario made GR (as he is popularly known) to go through a metamorphosis and turn in to a mentor capitalist. At GOLD’S GYM, GR is spearheading the global fitness leader with his new vision and fiscal stratagem.

Recently being sector agnostic GR has been successful in launching new brands in the retail food segment which are IDezzerts and ICuisines.

6. SHYAM SEKAR, CHIEF MENTOR AND STRATEGIST AT STARTUP XPERTS

ShyamSekar, a catalyst leader with around 22 years of experience is the Chief Mentor and Strategist at StartupXperts, a business growth consulting firm aimed at supporting Startups and corporate, in India and abroad. Aim is to turn ideas and vision, into reality through smart execution, and build the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He accelerates the revenue growth of startups and other enterprises. StartupXperts has been featured under the ‘Emerging Company of the Year’ category, in the Silicon India Entrepreneur Year Book 2014.

7. LAKSHMI JAGANNATHAN, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

DERBI FOUNDATION– an Innovation & Entrepreneurship enthusiast. With over 25 years of corporate & academic experience, my career has shades of various roles in key administrative positions. I am a highly motivated individual, passionate worker and am told that I make a very good motivational leader. I am on a mission to transform academic campuses as startup hubs! 

8. MANISH ANAND, FOUNDER & CEO UTILIS CAPITAL

Manish is the Founder & CEO of Utilis Capital, a Late Seed & Pre-Series a focused Micro VC Fund backing Disruptive & Innovative Tech-enabled Start-ups. He has 28 years of Leadership experience across 11 diverse industry domains, has founded over 8 Businesses, and has mentored over 44 Start-ups during the course of his professional career.

9. ANNU GROVERGREEN EVANGELIST, MD AT NURTURING GREEN

Annu started Nurturing Green (NG) 8 years back at the age of 22. Studied Management from Bimtech-Noida & FH Joanneum-Austria, he left the cushy consulting job in Europe to start up by selling plants!

Today, Nurturing Green is India’s Biggest Company into Green Gifting & has been successful in replacing flowers with plants. With 100+ employees, it has ventured into Decor, Landscaping & Services too.

Coming from a middle class Lucknow family, He has till now bootstrapped NG & broken the jinx of #Tumsenahopayega! Over the last 8 years, he has seen 1000+ failures & that’s why has profitably & sustainably grown the venture.

10. MAHAVIR PRATAP SHARMA, CHAIRMAN AND CO-FOUNDER AT RAIN (RAJASTHAN ANGEL INNOVATORS NETWORK TIE GLOBAL)

Mahavir Sharma, a serial entrepreneur is part of umpteen businesses and social organizations, and exudes passion in angel investing, leadership and mentoring.

After schooling at Xavier and college in Jaipur, he went to the US and worked in the international trading market for 6 years.

11. ABHIJEET KUMARCO-FOUNDER,AH! VENTURES

Graduate IIT Mumbai (2003 Batch)
Analyst with Deloitte for 1.5 years
Co-founder, Pronto Infotech (A technology company with about 50 employees and offices in Mumbai & Delhi)

Armed with a B.Tech from IIT Mumbai, Abhijeet worked with Deloitte Consulting as an Associate Consultant before moving on to found his own company, Pronto Infotech, in the ITES space. Here, he faced and overcame the challenges that come with setting up an enterprise, and in the last 6 years, has created a successful venture with a multi-crore revenue stream. He has worked with numerous clients across industries and in various functional domains including Tax, Retail, HR, E-Commerce, Web, Supply Chain, Technology, Banking and others.

12. SHANI PANDYA, COFOUNDER & EXECUTIVE AT INNOVATION AND INCUBATION CENTRE,
    PDPU (AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT)

13. VINOD KENIEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MYCFO & CHAIR – FINTECH SIG AT TIE MUMBAI,
    ACTIVE ANGEL INVESTOR & BUSINESS BUILDER

Accomplished Corporate Finance Executive, Investment Professional, Entrepreneur& Advisor with a proven track record in achieving positive business results with a focus on bottom line results, sustainability, efficiency and top line growth within early, growth stage enterprises and global organizations. Demonstrated ability to build and lead business operations that drive growth, increase efficiency, and manage margins and risk.

Global living & professional experience in the US & India. Experience includes leading new and fast growing businesses, investments, equity capital and debt, operational and financial efficiencies, M&A, exits, strategic initiatives and restructuring. Proven track record in developing strategic alliances, identifying new opportunities and measuring impact. NASDAQ IPO experience.

14. SANTOSH NAIRTHE,FOUNDER OF SMMART TRUE SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURS

He inspired over 4000 entrepreneurs across a vast spectrum of industries (Real estate, Retail, Jewellery, Engineering, Chemical, Service etc) and created success stories for all those organizations that came in contact with him. The Methodology used includes a mix of classroom training, experiential learning, interactive/activity based workshops and individual reviews.

Smmart is an organization which ‘walks the talk’. It strives to be a role model for entrepreneurs by internally implementing all the tasks,tools, mechanisms and processes that its management training program professes to its customers; smmart thus carries the conviction and clarity in preaching from its practice.

15. SUBINDER KHURANA, BETWEEN VENTURES

Entrepreneur with a successful track record. Specialize in analytics and platform-based solutions. Built businesses, sold and delivered products and services, both in India and globally.

Have been on the Advisory Board of several start-ups, including Druva Software, Authbridge, WTI Cabs, Denave, Broadcast2World and Power2SME. Chaired TiECon Delhi 2013. Board member, TiE Delhi.

16. SHASHANK PRADHAN, TRUST ADVISER, DEAL MAKER, GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, NETWORKING EXPERT, AEGIS LIMITED.

A professional with around 27 years of experience in all aspects of Managing Business, P&L Ownership, Sales,Pre-Sales, Business Solution, Domain Consulting, Client Partner, Global Account Management, Project and Program Management in IT Services Business.

17. NIKHIL KUMAR, START-UP CONSULTANT /FMCG, RETAIL MARKETING PROFESSIONAL
    HOUSEJOY AND MULTIPLE OTHER START-UPS INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW

Professional experience across FMCG,Retail, F&B and E-Commerce. Nikhil is a dynamic & result oriented professional with over 10 years of rich experience in the field of Marketing, Merchandizing & Sales.

18. SADIYA NASEEM, 10 YEARS IN TO STARTUPS. FOUNDER @ GLAMSTUDIOS.IN
    IN INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, CALCUTTA

Sadiya is a dynamic entrepreneur with a classic combination of business and technical skills. With over a decade of cross domain online experience across travel, retail, media and education industries, Sadiya’s key expertise lies in increasing profitability and performance for start-ups.

She started her internet journey in 2007 with martjack.com by joining its initial team and was able to build and establish the product as one of the most preferred global E-retailing platform. Post that, she had spent six years at MGH as the leadership member and had managed to list the company as one of the best start-ups in its domain with its innovative products and excellent customer acquisition rate. Later in December 2014, Sadiya got associated with India’s largest chain of branded stays Oyorooms.com and assisted the company to grow its supply by introducing new processes, cost effective methods and making its presence felt in the B2B market.

19. ARYA RAJESH KUMAR, CHAIR PERSON, YOUNG INDIANS BENGALURU, CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRY

Entrepreneur armed with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Applications with over Ten years of experience in managing business, customers and stakeholders bringing customer delight through pro-active services and solutions.

20. VIVEK KUMARCEO, VENTURE GARAGE.

He is a multiple entrepreneur and has been working with early stage businesses and start-ups in four key thrust areas of- Strategic Roadmaps, Market Access, Digital & tech knowhow, and Fund Raising. They themselves have small angel investments, and stock holding in start-ups and mentor and work with promising ones.

In his 10 year stint at “The Nielsen Company” he worked closely with the marketing and strategy teams of leading MNCs such as Airtel, Nokia, GSK, UN agencies, Aajtak, NDTV, Times now, Political parties, Transparency international, Fritolays etc.

Co-Founded IRIS retail, a market intelligence and hand holding company with services in, retail analytics and advisory. Clients included Nike, Lifestyle, Mcdonalds, Bata, DLF, Bain Capital, KPMG etc.

Subsequently Co-Founded Bollywoodandfashion, a celebrity inspired “lifestyle” site delivering fast fashion in lifestyle products.

Co-founded SMEjoinup.com a business services helpline.

MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad) alumnus on 1996.

21. NISHANT, CO-FOUNDER LIFTOFF VENTURES MENTOR & STRATEGIC IDEATOR
    LIFTOFF_VENTURES

Through career span Nishant’s been part of companies in their infancy and saw them through multi thousand employees and geography spreads. As the chosen one through employment years, he was tasked with projects requiring new skills and went onto develop teams and success consistently.

As an Entrepreneur, Nishant built companies with positive exists and others where learnings were the only thing worth a mention. Entrepreneurial experience spans Management Consulting, Online Fashion, Retail Ops, Health & Wellness and Condition Monitoring & Testing

Company Snapshot – Equity / Owned:

LIFTOFF Ventures – India
Management Consulting
liftoffventures.com VYANA Scientific – India
Health & Wellness
vyanascientific.com AFYA Health – India
Medical Made Easy
afyaonline.com Medgenera – India
Healthcare Information Portal
medgenera.com Zinier INC – StartX USA
Retail Operations SAS
zinier.com iAdept Marketing – India
Condition Monitoring & Measurement Devices
iadeptmarketing.com theVinciPC – India
Next Gen AI
Web Coming Up NeuvoCap – Singapore
Holding Firm Brand Access – India
Physical Retail – Global Brands

22. AAKARSH NAIDU, ECOSYSTEM AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES, NSRCEL AT IIM BANGALORE

Aakarsh heads the Ecosystem and Strategic initiatives at one of India’s top startup incubators – NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore. He is currently focused on the Atal Innovation Mission Project under NITI Aayog in scaling up the initiatives of the centre. Aakarsh is on the advisory panel of the Global Startup Awards (SAARC) and has had the opportunity of participating in the unveiling of the Startup India Action plan in Delhi.

Aakarsh has Master’s Degree from The London School of Economics (LSE) and also served as the board member of LSE Energy Society. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management (BBM) from Christ College, Bangalore and was awarded a Gold medal for his academic excellence from Hyderabad Public School.

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