ABOUT US E-CELL LAUNCHPAD

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2 ABOUT US E-CELL In a world full of budding entrepreneurs, E-Cell BPHC acts as a pathway to successful businesses. Nurturing entrepreneur enthusiasts, enriching their ideas and providing the students with a rich entrepreneurship culture to look up to is our prime responsibility. Holding workshops to come up with B-plans for your startups, learning about seed funding, teaching management skills are some of the methods we use to shoot you towards your dreams. We, a family of 40 hardworking, dedicated students, constitute the Entrepreneurship Cell of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. LAUNCHPAD LAUNCHPAD is the annual startup conclave organized by E-Cell, BPHC. This year, in our second edition of LAUNCHPAD we bring to you a confluence of students, budding entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors at a single platform. With more than 1000 startup founders, angel investors, VC s and students attending the event it is considered to one of the biggest startup conclave in Telangana and Karnataka.

3 GROUND REALITY Ground Reality is one of the most prestigious events E-Cell has to offer. With a carefully thought out schedule it serves as an opportunity for those who seek to showcase their ideas tothe world. Ground Reality serves the cause of promoting innovative startups within and beyond the walls of campus. For this purpose, we offer prizes ranging up to a staggering amount of 5 lakhs! As our annual B-Plan competition. It aspires to be a bridge between students and the market, while simultaneously promoting the beauty of entrepreneurship across the nation. Nurturing, empowering and guiding entrepreneurs to their destiny is the responsibility, we pride ourselves in carrying.

4 TIMELINE Registrations Registration open on 24th October Round th October th January 2018 In first round we will be asking startups to provide basic information about idea, contact details etc. Round th January st February 2018 In second round, we float another form to them asking details about their start, revenue stream and expenditure stream. They are asked to provide link to their website or a video of the product if it is a product based company. Top 50 startups are selected on the basis of given information, timeline of startup, feasibility of idea on other parameters. Mentors and help in form of online videos or course is provided to perfect their business plan, prepare pitch deck and elevator pitch. Mentors will also guide them with product development, marketing or any other aspect. Campus 18th February 2018 (E-Summit 18) Pitching Based on various parameters and opinions of mentors top fiteen startups are invited to the campus for final round pitching in front of panel of judges.

5 PRIZES Prizes worth 5 lac at stake Including : Co-working Space Web Development Accelerator Program Cloud Space Legal Help JUDGES Previous years judges : Sreedhar Ambati 50k ventures Sushanto Mitra Lead Angels Uday Wankawala Lemon ideas

6 TESTIMONIALS We wanted to thank Ground Reality, for helping us figure out some important things, for ironing out the lesser ones and for carefully examining our startup during your event Ground Reality at Launchpad earlier this year. The exposure, plus the prize money from this event helped us a lot in our journey. Yogesh Suresh, HOPE Pens, Winner Ground Reality 17 Ground Reality 17 was a phenomenal event. There is no other way to put it. Harshit Soni SmileMiddle Ground Reality 17 helped me in my startup journey by connect me with mentors and It helped in product development process. I would like to thank Groud Reality and Launchpad for the help. Ujjawal Aggarwal AryaRobotics

7 CONTACT US ecell.bits-hyderabad.ac.in twitter.com/ecell_bphc facebook.com/ecell.bphc instagram.com/launchpad_bphc Bits Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Shameerpeth Jawahar Nagar, Secunderabad, Telangana Ankur Shreyansh