BITS Pilani’s Annual Startup Conclave – Conquest is back with it’s 2015 Edition. Conquest has had ten successive editions over the past and this year, the model has been revamped to make it even more grand. Last edition of Conquest saw around 2000 applications from all over India. Conquest provided a platform to support our teams raise millions of dollars of investment upon completion of the Grand Finale held at FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi.
Highlights of Conquest 2015
- Close to 2000 applicants would be fighting it out to win the challenge.
- Last year 3.5 Lakhs equity-less cash was handed over to the winners of Conquest. However in this edition, along with the equity-less cash, winners would also get $1 million worth CRM and other support services.
- Freshmentors, an online mentoring platform that was backed with angel investment of Rs 1 crore in 2014 would seek personalized mentoring on college admissions and their careers via live video chats. It caters to its customers with the help of over 300 mentors spread across 150 foreign universities.
- The short-listing process of the top 50 startups would be done by a panel of Investors and mentors.
Some of the jury members include:
- Rohit Bansal, Co-founder Snapdeal
- Amit Ranjan, Co-founder of Slideshare
- Ankur Warikoo, CEO of Groupon India
- Alok Kejriwal, Founder & CEO of Games2Win
- Dev Khare of Lightspeed Ventures &
- Rajesh Sawhney, Founder of the GSF Accelerator & GSF Superangels
For providing comprehensive feedback to all the applicants of Conquest,2015; they have partnered with Applyifi, a private platform for startups to create a comprehensive pitch-book & thereafter apply to multiple investors or accelerators/incubators.
How to apply for Conquest,2015
- Registrations for Conquest are open from 31st March & would be open through the month of April. Registrations would close on 1st May.
- The list of 50 short-listed startups would be announced in the month of June.
- Any startup which was registered after 1st Jan 2013 is eligible to participate in Conquest 2015.
- Startups can register at Conquest website. Applicant has the option of saving his form & filling it at any time before the registration closes.
The networking sessions meant to connect every startup with their mentor will be held in 5 cities namely Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai in the month of July.
Previous winners of Conquest
Some of the success stories of previous editions of Conquest are listed below:
- I-Traveller – Runners-up, 2013
- Solar Town – Runners-up, 2012
- PosterGully – Finalist, 2012
- Phyzok – Winner, 2011
- GharPay – Runners-up, 2011
- iViz Security – Winner, 2006
- Mobile Medics – Winner, 2005
The title sponsor of the event is DCB Bank.
Startups, please make the most of this opportunity & head over to Conquest website for registration & more details.
* We would update this post once we receive more details from the Organization Team of Conquest. Stay Tuned !!! Please leave a comment in case any information on Conquest is required.
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