Somnath Meher is the CEO of Witworks, an exciting startup that has created quite the buzz. Witworks is the brain child of Somnath, Ankit and Chandrashekhar and is a consumer technology company that makes smart wearables and home devices to solve user problems. These IIT graduates won almost every B-plan competition they entered while they were in college, but were clueless about what to do once they graduated. So, they took jobs when they completed their undergraduate education in 2012. However, when they

J: What is HookedUp? AP: HookedUp is a social meeting-cum-dating app where people can connect with each other on the basis of similar interests. The HookedUp app was launched on Google Play in 134 countries on 5th Jan 2016 and it has been growing at a 10% daily rate since then. This app has some unique features like “Ask for a coffee meeting” so that users can freely connect offline with others users without bringing the concept of “date”. USP of this app

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Startup India Action Plan in the concluding session of Startup India Standup India event conducted in New Delhi on 16th January 2016 to boost startup ecosystem in India. Some of the key points in the Startup India Action Plan are as follows: Compliance Regime based on Self-certification Startups are allowed self-certification based compliance with labour and environment laws No inspection for labour laws for the first three years Includes self-certified compliances for environmental regulation Startup India Hub

Name : Manish Pandey Start-up Name : MYMOVIERACK.COM Q1. Could you tell us a bit about your startup? MYMOVIERACK.COM is a web platform which lets users rate, review and recommend movies and TV series. The start-up is a team of 4(all from NIT Allahabad, currently 3 are actively working on it). The team members share a common passion: to build something of our own for our love for movies and TV series and a common philosophy: to build something that we ourselves find irresistible.

·       Greg Moran Founder & CEO, Zoomcar An entrepreneur with experience in investment banking, business development, international energy and infrastructure sector. Greg Moran was a finance student at USC’s Marshall School of Business, prior to which he studied International Relations at University of Pennsylvania.  He was the founder and president of the USC Energy Club and member of many entrepreneurship associations during his post-graduation years. In 2013, Moran dropped out of his course and launched Zoomcar in Bangalore with David Back (also a

A team of four IITians conceptualize the vision to start an educational enterprise which can bring noticeable changes in the approach of teaching and learning in India. How did these guys succeed in generating an interest among the youth to pick the teaching profession and become “Teachers by Choice”? To answer these questions and talk about his entrepreneurial journey, Pulkit Jain, co-founder of Lakshya Institute and Vendantu Innovations Pvt. Ltd., interacted with a crowd of start-up enthusiasts in an event conducted by Entrepreneurship