


India has faced unprecedented challenges on various fronts since last year but despite all these odds, our country has emerged as an even stronger nation than before. India has revamped itself with a whole new era of digitization, self- capability and self-sufficiency. This innovative transition marks a new beginning for our country with transformed health, economic and educational structures. IIT Kanpur Alumni Association and Entrepreneurship Cell proudly brings to you the 20th edition of Startup Master Class – “’India 2.0′- Journey Beyond 2020”.
With insightful talks, enthralling discussions and intriguing competitions, SMC ensures a wholesome experience. From inspiring creative ideas to expediting startups, SMC offers countless opportunities to budding entrepreneurs to prove their mettle and pave their way into the entrepreneurial world.
An opportunity to uplift your ideas and pitch them on one of India’s biggest pitching platforms and leave behind a powerful impact, SMC provides you a chance that you wouldn’t wanna miss. Pitch your idea in front of 40+ business experts and renowned investors from all over the country, and gain their visibility as your live audience. Open for startups of all ages, rake in!
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Startup Expo is a virtual event where startups will get a chance to showcase their startup in front of renowned Investors, Industry leaders and other dignitaries and to gather an exceptional network base. This event will be held on Townscript live where participants will be allotted virtual tables to showcase their creative ideas to our esteemed panel of guests. The guests will be able to visit any table to view the startups’ products and interact with them.
General Idea
Ideathon is a competition for IITK Students who want to try their hands at Entrepreneurship or test their problem-solving skills by bringing a feasible startup solution to existing problems in campus, specially after the Covid-era. The competition has two tracks, Student Only, where the students can form their teams and participate on their own to provide a business solution to a problem they find relevant to the campus or can choose it from the given list. The other track is Student- Alumni track where each team will be assigned an alumni to guide them towards a feasible solution.The teams have to prepare a presentation describing the details of their idea and present their solution on their own to the jury members, irrespective of the track.
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SMC one-on-one sessions help participants seek one-on-one expert mentorship on their startup ideas with an opportunity to meet 60+ Mentors – Investors, VCs, Accelerators, Industry experts and other successful entrepreneurs from diverse fields of HealthTech, Fintech, Edtech etc. Individuals or teams can seek mentorship on their start-up or other entrepreneurship queries by meeting the speakers, investors or mentors in a one to one 10-15 min session. The time slots with respective PR will be released prior to the event in the form of google form.The slots for this session will be allocated to the participants on first come first serve basis.
Power 5x is a series of sessions that brings you the insightful journeys of present-day pioneers in the entrepreneurial world, how they have depicted the veracious meaning of “power” by conquering their own quest despite the challenges they faced during the Covid pandemic.
The speaker panel will consist of esteemed IIT Kanpur alumnus who will share their motivating stories revolving around tracks of FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech and blockchain technology.
Get inspired and shape your ideas by how they tackled extraordinarily unusual situations which arose during the pandemic and emerged even stronger than ever.
This event will consist of talk sessions delivered by five speakers distributed over a period of five days.
“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experience of others”
-Rick Warren

Prateek Shukla
Co Founder and Ceo, Masai School

Nikhil Kurele
Co-founder, Noccarc

Ketan Gaikwad
M.D. & CEO at Receivables Exchange of India Ltd

Ashish Kumar
Partner, Fundamentum

Devashish Fuloria
CEO, GeoIQ

kushang
Co-Founder and Ceo at SupplyNote

Kshitij Garg
Chief Business Officer, Emoha Eldercare

Ramakant Vempati
Founder, Wysa

Rajesh Duddu
Vp and Practice Leader, Tech Mahindra

Harsh Pokharna
Co-Founder and Ceo, OkCredit

Asheesh Sharma
Head, JEE-NEET, Byjus’s

Vadiraj Aralappanavar
Director at Founder Institute

Ravish Agarwal
CEO at Able Jobs

Devendra Khandegar
Founder, kredily

Abhishek Poddar
Co-Founder and CEO, Plum

Amit Kumar Agarwal
Founder & CEO at NoBroker.com



Apoorva Khandelwal
SMC Lead
Anand Verma
SMC Co-lead
Vinay Garg
SMC Event Lead
Abhijeet Bhandari
SMC Program Lead
Vipin Agarwal
Co-Lead, SMC Program
Bhavna Uttamchandani
SMC Outreach lead
Mayank Verma
Advisor, SMC
Amit Tiwari
Advisor, SMC
Tanu Modi
Manager, Events, E-Cell
Shreyansh Dubey
Overall Coordinator, E-Cell
Mudit Mamodia
Manager, Events, E-Cell
Tanmay Sinha
Manager, Design, E-Cell
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