proto.in - bringing together Indian entrepreneurs and VCs
Kiruba Shankar spoke about the upcoming Proto.in conference - a conference billed with the theme - Create, Collaborate, Contribute. The conference is on the 20th, 21st January 2007 at IIT Madras.
The organizers say this is inspired by Demo (The launchpad for emerging technologies). Here’s a summary of what this event is all about.
- They intend to get the most promising 25 startups to come and present their prototype for 10 mins.
- IIT Madras and TiE are supporting this event.
- They are looking at prototypes. No powerpoints. They are yet to define what a “prototype” is. Some in the audience wondered if an HTML prototype would do?
- They intend to have 20 something VCs
- They wanted to call it “launch.in” but the URL was taken. So it was called “proto.in”
- They already have 50 nominations so far.
- You could send you nominations by 20th December.
- They are going to charge Rs.5000 for the startup, Rs.25000 for VCs and Rs.500 to participate.
It has all the ingredients to make it a big event. They just got my attention.
