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TATA    TATA
Tata is a rapidly growing business group in India with significant international operations. The business operations of the Tata Group currently encompass seven business sectors: Communications/ IT, Engineering, Materials, Services, Energy, Consumer Products and Chemicals.

The Tata Group has always believed in returning wealth to the society it serves. Two-thirds of the equity of Tata Sons, the Tata Group's promoter company, is held by philanthropic trusts which have created national institutions in science and technology, medical research, social studies and the performing arts.

The trusts also provide aid and assistance to NGOs in the areas of education, healthcare and livelihoods. Tata companies also extend social welfare activities to communities around their industrial units. The combined development-related expenditure of the Trusts and the companies amounts to around 4 per cent of the Group's net profits.

Anchored in India and wedded to its traditional values and strong ethics, the Group is building a multinational business which will achieve growth through excellence and innovation, while balancing the interests of its shareholders, its employees and wider society.

» Number of startups nominated by TATA:1 nominations
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National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)    National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)
A not-for-profit initiative, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) is India's leader in entrepreneurship education and the largest representative of new and future entrepreneurs.

Currently NEN is working with more than 380 top-tier academic institutes reaching over 3,00,000 young people across 30 cities of India. The NEN community alone has 55,000 entrepreneurship cell members. A Wadhwani Foundation initiative, NEN was co-founded in 2002 by leading Indian institutes, including IIT-Bombay, IIM-Ahmedabad, BITS Pilani, SP Jain and IBAB.

» Number of startups nominated by NEN: 302 nominations
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Major Partners

Helion Venture Partners    Helion Venture Partners
Helion Venture Partners is a stage independent, India-focused venture fund, investing in high growth technology powered businesses and consumer services. With a team of partners and advisors who bring rich operating, entrepreneurial and venture experience, they have a strong brand in India, and a well-established network in the global markets.
» Number of startups nominated by Helion: nominations none
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Seedfund    Seedfund
Seedfund, an early-stage venture capital fund was started by people with hands-on experience on raw startups in India. The firm aims to work closely with young startups over the next 5 years. Seedfund is looking mostly at looking mostly at internet or media or mobile or telecom or retail or consumer-facing plays - and also for areas that aren't yet "sectors."
» Number of startups nominated by Seedfund: nominations none
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Wadhwani Foundation    Wadhwani Foundation
Wadhwani Foundation was launched in 2000 to help individuals achieve their full potential, regardless of background. To meet this goal, the Foundation funds not-for-profit efforts to accelerate entrepreneurship in emerging economies, and runs the Wadhwani Grant Program to empower the disadvantaged. The National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), which is the Foundation's key program, works to inspire, educate and support the younger generation of entrepreneurs in India.
» Number of startups nominated by Wadhwani Foundation: nominations none
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HT Mint    Mint (Official Print Media Partner)
Mint is a business newspaper from HT Media Ltd, launched in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal. Published in English, with an initial circulation of around 80,000 copies, 'Mint' delivers global, regional business and economic news to Indian readers Monday-Saturday each week.
» Number of startups nominated by Mint: nominations none
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Special Partners

Tata Consultancy Services    Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading global IT & engineering services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, is participating in encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in the country. As a Special Partner of the TATA NEN Hottest Startups initiative, the SMB unit of TCS will provide common office applications & vertical specific applications free of cost as part of its IT-as-a Service concept, to the winning startup in the areas of manufacturing, retail, healthcare & education.

TCS SMB is focused on serving the IT needs of emerging enterprises in India through an innovative business model called IT-as-a-Service. It delivers on demand business capability with an integrated suite of hardware, network and software solutions, along with business, technical and consulting services in a ?build-as-you-grow?, ?pay-as-you-use? model through a shared services hosted platform.

» Number of startups nominated by TCS: nominations none
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The Gateway Hotel    The Gateway Hotel
The Gateway Hotel is a pan-India network of hotels and resorts for the modern nomad. At the Gateway Hotel, we believe in keeping things simple. Which is why, our hotel are divided into 7 simple zones- Stay, Hangout, Meet, Work, Workout, Unwind and Explore.

As travel often means more hassle than harmony, more stress than satisfaction, modern travelers are looking for smarter choices. Driven by our passion for perfection, we welcome our customers to a refreshingly enjoyable and hassle-free experience, anytime, everywhere. Offering the highest consistency in quality, service and style we set new standards and take the unwanted surprises out of traveling. Our warm welcomes make our guests feel at home, away from home and our crisp and courteous service empowers them to get more done with greater effectiveness and control. And through our unrivalled network we provide service that is effortless, simple, never overwhelming and always warm.

» Number of startups nominated by The Gateway Hotel: nominations none
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Knowledge Partners

IIM Ahmedabad- CIIE    IIM Ahmedabad- CIIE
IIM Ahmedabad has evolved from being India's premier management institute to a notable international school of management. IIM A's mission is to help India and other developing countries improve their managerial practices both in the private and in the public sectors, and adopt superior public policies.
» Number of startups nominated by IIM Ahmedabad: nominations none
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IIM Bangalore- NSRCEL    IIM Bangalore- NSRCEL
Building on the base of its highly accomplished faculty and motivated student body, IIM Bangalore has evolved into a premier center for management education and research.

The flagship Postgraduate Program in Management (PGP) and Fellow (Doctoral) Program in Management (FPM) are very highly rated and IIMB alumni occupy senior managerial and academic positions across the globe.

» Number of startups nominated by IIM Bangalore: 1 nominations
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Microsoft    Microsoft
The Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program is designed to help high potential software startups around the globe get access, guidance and support to accelerate their success on the Microsoft platform.
» Number of startups nominated by Microsoft: nominations none
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Media Partners

Business Gyan    Business Gyan
Business Gyan is a collaboration platform to help people reach out to others who needs you and whom you need for business. It is a catalyst that helps the exchange of useful business information through print and online medium.
» Number of startups nominated by Business Gyan: nominations none
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Cool Avenues (Online Media Partner)    Cool Avenues (Online Media Partner)
This is a portal for management students as well as aspiring management students. The website has a membership of 25,000 students with over 1.8 lakh pageviews per day.
» Number of startups nominated by Cool Avenues: nominations none
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DARE    DARE
Dare is India's first magazine for entrepreneurs. With a circulation of 80,000 copies, the monthly magazine caters to a specific class of people who want to shape their careers building big enterprises of value.
» Number of startups nominated by DARE: nominations none
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MBA Universe    MBA Universe (Official Management Portal)
MBAUniverse.com is India's most comprehensive management portal. It was set up in 2006 to address the information asymmetry in the management education and practice domain. The portal has 20,000 members with 30,000 pageviews per day.
» Number of startups nominated by MBA Universe: nominations none
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Pagalguy.com (Education Media Partner)    Pagalguy.com (Education Media Partner)
PaGaLGuY.com was founded in 2002, as a discussion board for students taking the Common Admission Test (CAT). The members of PaGaLGuY.com comprise over 50 per cent of the students in the top B-schools. The portal has over 2 lac members and over 11lac blogposts.
» Number of startups nominated by Pagalguy.com: nominations none
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SmartTechie    SmartTechie
The Smart Techie is India's first career magazine for experienced technology professionals. Started in 2002, it aims to update its readers on the latest developments in technology and the related impact on careers. The magazine is a part of the Silicon India magazine and has a circulation of 25,000 copies.
» Number of startups nominated by SmartTechie: nominations none
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Associate Partners

India Interacts    India Interacts
Indiainteracts.com is a social media platform, where users can consume, create and distribute content by customizing their media spaces with stories, blogs, videos, photos and more.
» Number of startups nominated by India Interacts: nominations none
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Indian Angel Network    Indian Angel Network
Indian Angel Network is India's first & largest angel network with successful entrepreneurs and high profile CEOs interested in investing in early stage businesses. The network has invested in multiple sectors like Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Hospitality, Mobile, Education, Internet.
» Number of startups nominated by Angel Network: nominations none
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India Student Businesses    India Student Businesses
India Student Businesses is an interactive online directory of top university startups. It gives members the opportunity to showcase their startup or business idea to a selective group of experienced professionals.
» Number of startups nominated by India Student Businesses: nominations none
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HeadStart!    HeadStart.in
The HeadStart Network is a not-for-profit organization run by volunteers and full time professionals to create and promote the innovation ecosystem in India. HeadStart defines the innovation ecosystem as consisting of entrepreneurs and startups, researchers in academia and industry, adopters of new technology and products, and investors.
» Number of startups nominated by HeadStart!: nominations none
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Mumbai Angels    Mumbai Angels
Started in November 2006, the Mumbai Angels is a forum for members to interact and exchange ideas and knowledge. The Mumbai Angels provides a unique platform to start up and very early stage companies by bringing them face to face with successful entrepreneurs, professionals and executives who are interested in and have the funds available to invest in start up companies.
» Number of startups nominated by Mumbai Angels: nominations none
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OCC_Bangalore    OCC Bangalore
The Open Coffee Club is a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet.

Started in London and now around the world, OCC is a regular, open and informal meeting place for people involved in startups to meet.

» Number of startups nominated by OCC Bangalore: nominations none
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OCC Chennai    OCC Chennai
The Chennai Open Coffee Club is a place for people involved in the startup ecosystem to meet in an informal setting. Anyone involved with startups - entrepreneurs, developers, lawyers, investors can join in.
» Number of startups nominated by OCC Chennai: nominations none
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Proto.in    Proto.in
Proto.in gives entrepreneurs a platform to express their visions and showcase their imagination. It is the startup event that happens in India, inviting entrepreneurs from within and around the subcontinent to participate, share, discuss and draw strength from the growing entrepreneurial demand and knowledge base that is created.
» Number of startups nominated by Proto.in: nominations none
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TiE    TiE
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is focused on promoting entrepreneurship and helps budding entrepreneurs through advice, guidance and assistance from successful & experienced entrepreneurs and professionals. It has a network through 45 cities in 10 countries that consists of many participants in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
» Number of startups nominated by TiE: nominations none
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Watblog    Watblog
WATBlog is a community of bloggers who have experience in internet advertising and Technology. WATblog has news, views and reviews relating to the rapid changes taking place on the web, mobile and the interactive advertising space. The community also runs a web 2.0 strategy consulting firm, an online video show, a gaming and a jobs blog.
» Number of startups nominated by Watblog: nominations none
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WebYantra    Webyantra
Webyantra is a tech blog that profiles Indian web products & services. It is about those products (or services), that use the web as a delivery medium, for solving users' problems. It focuses on the Indian consumer internet space.
» Number of startups nominated by Webyantra: nominations none
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VentureWoods    VentureWoods
VentureWoods is India's leading venture capital and startup blog. It also has postings for jobs in startups.
» Number of startups nominated by VentureWoods: nominations none
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VentureWoods    SocialTwist
SocialTwist brings Widget Applications that can add a twist to the way visitors use a website or a new way employees of a company collaborate at work. Tell-a-Friend is the first of series of Widget Applications that form "SocialTwist Web". Soon we plan to launch Widget Applications for internal corporate use, to be called the "SocialTwist Enterprise".

SocialTwist is a business of Pramati Technologies.

» Number of startups nominated by SocialTwist: nominations none
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