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IBM Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) has announced the winners for its SmartCamp Hyderabad edition.
The startups were judged by Jayesh Ranjan, IT Secretary to Telangana government, Srikanth Sundararajan, Partner at Helion Ventures, Srinivas Kollipara, COO of Telangana Startup Hub and Vineel Reddy, Founder of 50K Ventures.
Here are the startups that won the IBM SmartCamp 2015 Hyderabad edition:
professionals with their products, offers and services, by delivering mobile presence for businesses.
IBM SmartCamp 2015 is a startup challenge in which startups will pitch to IBM executives, VCs and government executives.
Global Entrepreneur Program was launched last year by IBM with an aim to provide comprehensive and strong network resources to drive collaborative cloud innovation for startups.
This time GEP is being hosted at nine different startup hotspots (cities) including Kochi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi, started from September 8, 2015.
Out of nine hotspots, IBM has already selected startups from two centers now. Prior to this, it had announced the winners for Kochi edition, around two weeks back.
After getting selected from all the nine cities, the startups will compete in regional finals that will be held in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
The event will culminate with a final showdown, wherein top six startups will pitch to eminent VCs (e.g. Nexus Ventures, Intel Ventures, Seedfund, Reservoir Ventures, Ravi Gururaj) in Bangalore.
Startups can apply for the program to the nearest city by filling this form.
[This article is part of a sponsored series by IBM SmartCamp]
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