TiE Amaravati Angels announces its first “Investor Connect” event

The event is planned to build an ecosystem and facilitate funding to nurture start-ups across Andhra Pradesh

TiE Amaravati Angels will be organizing their first ever “Investor Connect” event in Vijayawada on August 31^st, 2018. The Investment and Funding Forum aims to focus on promoting entrepreneurship and mentoring the next path breaking idea. The last date for sending in the entries is 15^th August 2018. Budding innovators, early stage start-ups in IT/ITES, Pharma/Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Agri/food processing, Fintech space with a working prototype or POC,can share their pitch deck at ad-angels@amaravati.tie.org. 

TiE Amaravati Angel Investor Connect is aimed at providing a structured forum to start-ups to present their business and get access to the right funds, mentoring and ecosystem to grow and elevate their businesses. The TiE Amaravati Angels network (launched with TiE Amaravati in January 2018) has created a pool of investors, venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs to provide funding in the range of INR 25 Lakhs to One Crore to the selected start-ups for scaling up their operations.

The 6 most promising ventures will be shortlisted by the jury out of all the entries received. The shortlisted start-ups will be given an opportunity to present their Business Plan in a 15 minutes pitch to Investors followed by a 5 minute Q&A. Shortlisted start-ups will be given hand-holding for post investor interactions along with an opportunity to meet mentors for scaling up.

Speaking about the event Mr. Sateesh Andra, President TiE Amaravati, said“ The mission of TiE Amaravati has been to foster entrepreneurship in the State through incubation, networking, mentoring, education, and facilitating funding of any upcoming start-ups and entrepreneurs. An Angel investor shall not only bring funds but also his/her expertise onboard that shall enable quick scaling up of the start-up. We have been proactively working with the start-up ecosystem to not only harness the technologies and ideas they have on offer but also partner them in their entrepreneurial journey.”

The last date for submitting the presentation deck to ad-angels@amaravati.tie.org is August 15, 2018.

About The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE):

TiE Amaravati, the Andhra Pradesh Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs has been launched on January 17, 2018. The chapter has been launched to help accelerate the growth of start-up ecosystem in the state of Andhra Pradesh. TiE Amaravati also conducted workshops for Start-ups to bring in investors perspective on the innovative ideas of the entrepreneurs. The Indus Entrepreneurs is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 in the Silicon Valley currently boasts 13000+ members in 61 chapters across 18 countries. The organization mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding. Since its birth, TiE’s Economic wealth creation is estimated at $200 billion. It has Influenced liberalization of key economic sectors across nations.

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