The first edition of the three day long journey of #StartupDash has finally come to an end.
It’s been exciting journey for startups and we as organisers to go through this dashing experience.
After a gruelling selection from hundreds of applications, we handpicked 13 startups to pitch at StartupDash. From LaunchPad to Mentoring to PitchUp, every aspect was a great learning for all the 13 startups. Yesterday’s mentoring sessions from the industry experts gave startups an opportunity to groom their products before taking to the market. Finally today, it was time for the PitchUp sessions, where the startups pitched to the Jury consisting of Abhishek Gupta of TLabs, Angel Investor Sunil Kalra and Kamal Mansharamani, Director at workXmate.
Keeping things short, here are the winners of StartupDash Delhi who will get pre-acceleration from TLabs:
AdPushup: AdPushup is an Ad revenue optimization tool which can help publishers & bloggers make more money from their existing website traffic using advanced automated A/B testing without the need for any programming knowledge.
Vidoomail: Vidoomail is a YouTube video email marketing tool for small & large businesses. By using their tool, one can send YouTube video in email in the embed form & track the performance in real time.
Bitnomix: A Social MMO game engine for Android and iOS.
MakeMyMails: Makemymails is powerful, enterprise cloud based B2B email marketing software.
As mentioned earlier as well, there are no winners & no losers. We’d like to thank to our awesome partners for supporting us and for offering all the cool goodies for our startups.
Besides the 4 winners, the rest 9 teams will get one month free co-working space at 91Springboard and Investopad, our awesome partners.
The format of StartupDash has created a lot of buzz among the industry veterans. We talked to our mentors, investors and industry experts during the event to hear what they had to say about StartupDash:
Shailesh Vikram Singh, Seedfund
It’s an interesting concept and helpful to funds, events like these provide a clean format to the startups by taking care of the background requirements.
Sunil Kalra, Angel Investor
Loved the format and the quality of startups, these type of events should happen often.
Chiragh Kirpalani, Head of Mobile, TimesCity
Format is good, as startups will find real value out of it, as they get chance to get connected to like-minded people, finding mentor and direction while doing a startup i difficult, so this kind of event platform provides a good direction for such startups.
Narendra Nag, Asia Digital Leader at MSLGROUP
Its a good format, all events like these either with TLabs or others are doing a decent job, as these provide people opportunity to connect with each other, which is useful.
Nimit Grover, Ex Head Marketing at IBIBO (Naspers Group)
Wonderful experience for me to be part of StartupDash, good mix of companies from strong technologies and product perspectives.
Nav Chatterji, Founder of Khoobh
Its a Solid event, More and more events like this show me how promising the future of Indian startups is.
Next week we are coming to Pune and the week after that to Bangalore to launch some more awesome startups. Keep on dashing!!!
NOTE: Startups and Individuals can apply here for Pune and Bangalore event.
