TiE hosts mentorship programme to boost start-up growth in Ahmedabad

In a bid to boost further growth among city-based start-ups, the Ahmedabad chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is organising a mentoring programme in association with Lead Angels, an investor group. Under the program, the not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs has identified 10 start-ups which will be provided mentoring in business acceleration and funding raising.

"TiE's mission is to foster entrepreneurs through education, networking and mentoring. Hence, the program looks at engaging investors and start-ups, apart from providing a mentoring platform to the latter. As a result of the event, we hope participating start-ups will stay focused and their chances of success will be high," said Neha Sheth, president of TiE's Ahmedabad chapter.

Within the program, the participating start-ups will not only receive free Mentoring from one or more mentors for a period of six months, but also an opportunity to present to Lead Angels Network investors in Ahmedabad & Mumbai.

"Networking opportunity with successful entrepreneurs, media, potential clients and partners is also being provided," Sheth added. There were in total 24 business plan applications received, out of which 9 were shortlisted jointly by TiE & Lead Angels for presenting to the mentors.

Apart from Sheth, the mentors included the likes of Apurva Shah, Founder & Group MD of Veeda Clinical Research, Rajeev Sharma, CEO - Sterling Group of Hospitals, Parag Rawal, Office of the CEO - Infibeam, Paresh Vora, Director - Teamlease University, Ajay Goyal, Founder - Aray Systems, Biren Patel, MD - New Asarwa Chemicals, Manish Sheldia, Partner - Amditree, Devesh Rathore, Head Operations - iCreate, and Rushik Shah, CEO - Alak Malak.