The Innovation Club of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune organized, ‘Seed Camp 2018’, an exclusive platform for the students of MBA in I&E to pitch their business plan to industry experts.

In the final round, the 13 shortlisted teams presented their ideas in a closed set-up on the 15th of October, 2018 at SIBM Pune, Lavale Campus.

The Top Five ideas received cash prizes of Rs. 2,75,000.

SIBM Pune hosted Mr. Puru Gupta Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO, True Elements and Mr. Umesh Kudalkar, Director, Multi-Act and also an Investor, Fund Manager and Strategy Adviser as panelists.

The five teams who aced the event were-

First Prize- Deepak Digga, Founder, LogiCom (Logistics vertical)

Second Prize- Aparna Swamy, Akanksha Singh and Ishita Agarwal, Founders, Xperience360 (Customer Experience vertical)

Third Prize- Raman C V, Founder, Bhakte (Religious Practices vertical)

Fourth Prize- Shardul Sawant, Founder, RangePlus Networks (Telecommunication vertical)

Fifth Prize- Manan Jambusaria, Founder, Ignite (EdTech vertical)

Dr R Raman

Director – SIBM Pune

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Dean – Faculty of Management – SIU