TiEcon Kerala – Kerala’s largest Entrepreneurs convention with a global perspective, features leaders from across geographies and various business domains. TiE Kerala launched its first TiEcon in 2012, which was a phenomenal success. This was followed by 5 more TiEcons in and TiEcon Kerala 2017 was the 6th consecutive one in the series.
This two day conference sees more than 100 speakers, over 40 concurrent sessions in 5 parallel tracks with a participation of over 1000 delegates. TiEcon Kerala could be an entrepreneur’s Biggest Opportunity to network with the ‘who’s who’ of the business world. This is a remarkable step of TiE Kerala towards its mission for the state to have ‘an entrepreneur at every home’ by 2020. The conference provides a platform for Entrepreneurs to connect, network, meet and share ideas, concepts, challenges and initiatives with Successful entrepreneurs, Angel investors, VCs and like-minded people with similar background and objectives.
TiEcon Highlights:
STARTUP CONCLAVE
Will offer Free booth spaces to selected Startups from the Incubators and Accelerators as well as Industrial Parks across Kerala to present their ideas and B-Plans and also to display their products and processes. They get opportunities to interact with Angels, VCs, Mentors and Growth Coaches among others, help evaluation of their products & processes and also offer mentorship & coaching. Besides considering for Angel & VC funding, the top few will also award substantial cash prizes.
PITCHING
In the Pitching session we select few Startups desiring funding by Angels & VC funds for presenting their business plans. We normally get representatives of the following Angels/VCs to participate to whom the Startups pitch in for funding.
Indian Angel Network | Mumbai Angels | Chennai Angels | Federal Bank Launchpad | Mecheri Capital | Ascent Capital | Springforth | Emerge Ventures | YourNest
MENTORING
We normally conduct mentoring sessions at TiEcon and the Mentors will be from amongst our Charter Members, Members and Speakers. Besides, we conduct few “Group Mentoring Sessions” by senior/iconic Entrepreneurs from amongs’t our speakers.
TiECON ANNUAL AWARDS
We present prestigious Annual Awards in the following categories:-
1. Entrepreneur of the year award
2. Emerging Entrepreneur of the year award
3. Woman entrepreneur of the year award
4. Startup entrepreneur of the year award
For more info visit www.tieconkerala.org