Headstart is back with one more interesting meetup on Decoding B2B Startups this November Edition.
Times have changed. Nearly 50 per cent of the 1000 start-ups India added in 2017 were in the B2B segment, up from 34 per cent last year, a new NASSCOM-Zinnov report on the 'Indian Start-up Ecosystem - Traversing the maturity cycle', found.
Enterprise tech (B2B), which was in favor in 2017, will continue to receive investor interest in 2018. As per a recent Nasscom-Zinnov report, the average funding for B2B startups in 2017 saw an increase of five percent, while B2C average funding saw a decline of 10 percent.
Enterprise tech also suits micro VC funds, given that it is more capital-efficient and exits are possible on a smaller scale. The next Indian unicorn will be from this space and will be self-sustaining.
This Startup Saturday get to know everything about B2B Startups and investment scenario in this space form the experts.
Introduction
How to get from 0 to 100 customers for your SAAS company
Masterclass: Finding product-market fit as an early stage B2B startup
Startup demo
Announcements
Networking break
Emerging startup: The story of Worxogo - Driving performance using AI
Funding in the B2B space: 2019 and beyond
Closing Notes
Kriti Gupta
Investor
VC @ Chiratae (formerly IDG Ventures India)
Kriti works with Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures India), which is an early stage fund investing in India for more than 12 years managing close to $ 470 mn. Some of our marquee investments have been Myntra, Lenskart, Flipkart, PolicyBazaar, etc to name a few. We are active investors in Indian Tech companies
Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
Mentor & Investor
Partner, Upekkha
Creator: Co-Created a scalable structured framework for startups to accelerate growth predictably, scalably, profitably.
Operator: Worked intensely with 120+ startups to make them LARGE at Microsoft Accelerator India.
Picker: Picked the right startups for Investors & Microsoft.
Coach: As a founder going through ups & downs, he helped other founders push through
Investor: Angel Invested in a couple of startups along the way.
Ravi Trivedi
Speaker & Investor
Founder, PushEngage
Ravi is :
1) Digital Marketer /Entrepreneur : Hands-on experience in running E-commerce and Lead Gen companies in US and India. Strengths include Customer Acquisition, Growth Hacks and Analytics. Loves finding Growth Hacks (arbitrage opportunities )
2) Investor : He is trying to build startups from scratch. Technology seed stage (angel/venture) investor in start-ups. Works actively with the start-ups in early stages.
N Sivaramakrishnan
Speaker & Mentor
Director - Product Development, Engineering & Analytics, Worxogo
Krish, is currently building technology tools to improve operational performance of organisations - using Analytics and principles of Behavioural Economics.
He has, in the past, worked with clients extensively in Supply Chain Management, IT Strategy, Technology Implementation areas.
Toolxprez is a B2B tech procurement company selling industrial products to manufacturing companies in Urban and Rural areas of India by digitizing the traditional procurement process making the procuring industrial products fast and easy.
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