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JKTPO organized “StartUp Mock Pitching” workshop in Jammu
Jammu, August 29, 2022: Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion Organization (JKTPO) organized a full day StartUp Mock Pitching workshop for StartUps based in Jammu at Conference Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Udyog Bhawan in the presence of domain experts from Invest India, DPIIT, and E&Y.
The objective of this workshop was to educate, train & prepare StartUp founders for pitching their venture ideas & delivering a powerful StartUp presentation in front of investors in order to convey their idea perfectly and creating good impression to receive funding opportunity.
Krishna Gudipudi & Payal Jawalkar from Invest India and Shreeram Iyer from Ernst & Young were part of expert panel who reviewed each StartUp Pitch Presentation on parameters like Idea Innovation, Business Model, Scalability, Pitch deck content, Presentation skills & others.
Expert panel interacted with every StartUp founder and suggested them inputs for making further improvement in pitch deck & idea presentation.
BuySellEmpire Genetico, Aquaplex, EDITH and other StartUps participated in this physical session and got valuable learnings for idea pitching & presentation skills.
One of the participating StartUp “EDITH” by IIT Jammu students is working towards helping blind people with innovative tech driven products. StartUp Oryza is working towards keeping pollution free ecosystem with their eco friendly biodegradable products made by rice straw.
Buddy Hub by MIET Jammu students is on a mission to create a safer zone for pets.
BuySellEmpire is a platform to sell and buy online ventures. Anmol Shakti FPC from Kathua is working on mushroom products. Genetico is a healthtech StartUp and Aquaplex is bringing innovative products in entertainment space like floating cinema.
Earlier Mr. Khalid Jahangir JKAS, MD-JKTPO discussed with domain experts regarding steps that can be taken to boost StartUp ecosystem in J&K.
This workshop helped participants expand their idea presentation skills and equipped them with strategies to build powerful StartUp pitch deck and delivering impressive presentations.
This exercise was part of pre-event session for the upcoming StartUp event “INNOVATION FEST 2022” which is going to be organized in September 2022 by JKTPO and Higher Education Department, Govt. of J&K. For participating in “Innovation Fest 2022”, startups can mail StartUp pitch deck to contactjktpo@gmail.com.