TiE Mumbai in association with New Ventures India (NVI) and CII are pleased to announce a CleanTech Mentoring Workshop aimed at creating robust CleanTech businesses that combine entrepreneurial energy, professional expertise and sagacious advice to have serious growth and revenue potential.
Workshop Objectives
• Mentor CleanTech businesses and enable frank conversations on business
models, risks and collaboration
• Connect CleanTech entrepreneurs with investors and talent
Who is this workshop for?
• CleanTech Entrepreneurs – to engage for your Investment and Talent needs
• Larger CleanTech Companies to engage with Entrepreneurs and Talent
• Seasoned Entrepreneurs & Mentors – to join Advisory Boards
• Experienced Managers – to understand opportunities in this space
• Inventors, Researchers and Incubators – to collaborate with business
professionals
Target Sectors
Renewable Energy, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency, Water, Waste Management/Recycling, Other Clean Technologies, Sustainable Agriculture and Eco Tourism
Workshop format
Pre – workshop:
CleanTech companies send in a brief profile, that will be vetted by a select group of seasoned entrepreneurs and mentors, by 11th March
At the workshop:
• Each company makes a 5 – 7 minute presentation
• Managers/Consultants/Mentors make 2 – 3 minute presentations on the services
they can provide to companies
• Post lunch, each company spends 30 minutes with a select group of mentors
(of your choice) on a focussed discussion
To Register:
Please drop a mail with a brief profile of your business to:
Shabnam : shabnam@tiemumbai.org
Phone : 022 – 42200106
Last date for registrations: 11th March ‘10
Manoj Gupta
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
CleanTech Agri - A framework
If you are interested in how cleantech impacts Agri in India, please see this ppt which I presented at CleanTech Forum in Delhi last year:
http://cleantech.com/documents/forums/2009/xxiv_delhi/presentations/speakers/Manoj_Gupta.pdf
Cheers
Manoj Gupta
http://cleantech.com/documents/forums/2009/xxiv_delhi/presentations/speakers/Manoj_Gupta.pdf
Cheers
Manoj Gupta
Monday, January 11, 2010
City Meet - Bangalore - Manoj Gupta - Nexus Venture Partners
Hi all,
I will be in Bangalore on Friday and would like to meet entrepreneurs and professionals in Agri, Rural, Cleantech and Financial services sector. If you are interested in having coffee with me for half an hour, please drop me an email for a slot.
Date: Jan 15, 2010, Friday
Time: 2PM-5PM
Location: Barista Coffee - Leela Palace Hotel, Airport Road, Kodihalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008, India - 080 41265329
RSVP: manoj@nexusvp.com
Let me know as soon as possible as slots fill fast!
Manoj Gupta
Nexus Venture Partners
+91-22-6626-0000
http://www.nexusvp.com
I will be in Bangalore on Friday and would like to meet entrepreneurs and professionals in Agri, Rural, Cleantech and Financial services sector. If you are interested in having coffee with me for half an hour, please drop me an email for a slot.
Date: Jan 15, 2010, Friday
Time: 2PM-5PM
Location: Barista Coffee - Leela Palace Hotel, Airport Road, Kodihalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008, India - 080 41265329
RSVP: manoj@nexusvp.com
Let me know as soon as possible as slots fill fast!
Manoj Gupta
Nexus Venture Partners
+91-22-6626-0000
http://www.nexusvp.com
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Largest Gathering of Cleantech Companies in India - Notes
TiE Hyderabad organized the ‘Largest Gathering of Cleantech Companies in India’. The conference was held in partnership with Nexus, SONG and New Ventures India. The event was a focused “no-frills” networking event of investors and entrepreneurs. The day was divided into 4 sections: Smart Grid, Energy Efficiency, Recycling and Renewable Energy. Companies operating in each area presented their business story in a small presentation to the audience and investors also talked about their investing interests.
Acumen Fund, Applied Materials, Atlas Advisory, Breathe Ventures, GEF, IDG, IFC(W), Lightspeed, Mumbai Angels, Nereus Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, SIDBI and YES Bank were the investors who attended apart, of course, from Nexus and SONG. That’s 15 investors all seriously interested in cleantech in India.
The morning sessions on Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency merged into each other as is the nature of business in this end of the Cleantech spectrum. Satyam, CEO of NeoSilica, who also played a key role in organizing the conference in his role as the TiE SIG head, presented the overall picture. The remote data collection and control idea was found in:
• Connect M, a IDG and Sasken company, develops applications that collect data remotely targeted at a broad set of businesses but also to utilities
• Autoboxx provides remote monitoring with respect to energy usage in air conditioned areas.
• Neureol which provides remote monitoring of infrastructure in telecom towers and power utilities.
The smart metering idea found resonance in:
• PowerMax Global which develops communication products that enable smart metering.
• Analogics which focuses on efficient metering and communication solutions.
The energy efficient theme was found in:
• Kakatiya Energy Systems develops lighting controls for energy efficient lighting.
• Unidyne which manufactures energy efficient air conditioning systems.
• NEST which manufacturers efficient solar lanterns.
The recycling section had the following highlights:
• E waste recycling by Ekoreco which has been one of the pioneers in this field and Greenscape. Inspite of the lack of mandatory regulation there is a market for several players in this field.
• Plastic waste to oil up-cycling by Samki Teck
The transportation sector was held up India’s pioneer in the area of electric bikes: Eko Vehicles.
The renewable energy section had several flavors. First among them was Biomass Gasification. The two presenters in this were Ankur Scientific, one of the technology pioneers in India and AllGreen Energy, which is using the technology for rural electrification.
The Biofuels section was led by Nandan, India’s leader in jethropa R&D and Indian Bio- Diesel Corporation, Baramati which is building local communities that will manufacture bio-diesel.
The hydro section had SCG India as the lone participant who is trying to develop micro hydro sites in Himachal Pradesh.
The solar section had representation from Nuetech Solar, the 4th largest player in the solar thermal area, Sharada with a broad range of products in solar and SuRe which is innovating in the solar PV area.
A presentation that was not enterprise or investor related was that of Ashok Das, representing World Bank InfoDev which explored the possibility of setting up a Innovation Center to foster and support the cleantech ecosystem.
We also had an interesting presentation from Higgs Advertising – building cleantech markets is a critical challenge.
The closing presentation of the day was made by Razvan Maximiuc of the Cleantech Group, who made the really sobering point that the pace of Cleantech in India did not match up either to the size of the opportunity or the requirements from a climate change standpoint.
Incidentally, that was probably the only time “Copenhagen” was mentioned in the conference. The challenges to cleantech entrepreneurship are closer to home.
Manoj/Sanjoy/Kartik/Satyam
Acumen Fund, Applied Materials, Atlas Advisory, Breathe Ventures, GEF, IDG, IFC(W), Lightspeed, Mumbai Angels, Nereus Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, SIDBI and YES Bank were the investors who attended apart, of course, from Nexus and SONG. That’s 15 investors all seriously interested in cleantech in India.
The morning sessions on Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency merged into each other as is the nature of business in this end of the Cleantech spectrum. Satyam, CEO of NeoSilica, who also played a key role in organizing the conference in his role as the TiE SIG head, presented the overall picture. The remote data collection and control idea was found in:
• Connect M, a IDG and Sasken company, develops applications that collect data remotely targeted at a broad set of businesses but also to utilities
• Autoboxx provides remote monitoring with respect to energy usage in air conditioned areas.
• Neureol which provides remote monitoring of infrastructure in telecom towers and power utilities.
The smart metering idea found resonance in:
• PowerMax Global which develops communication products that enable smart metering.
• Analogics which focuses on efficient metering and communication solutions.
The energy efficient theme was found in:
• Kakatiya Energy Systems develops lighting controls for energy efficient lighting.
• Unidyne which manufactures energy efficient air conditioning systems.
• NEST which manufacturers efficient solar lanterns.
The recycling section had the following highlights:
• E waste recycling by Ekoreco which has been one of the pioneers in this field and Greenscape. Inspite of the lack of mandatory regulation there is a market for several players in this field.
• Plastic waste to oil up-cycling by Samki Teck
The transportation sector was held up India’s pioneer in the area of electric bikes: Eko Vehicles.
The renewable energy section had several flavors. First among them was Biomass Gasification. The two presenters in this were Ankur Scientific, one of the technology pioneers in India and AllGreen Energy, which is using the technology for rural electrification.
The Biofuels section was led by Nandan, India’s leader in jethropa R&D and Indian Bio- Diesel Corporation, Baramati which is building local communities that will manufacture bio-diesel.
The hydro section had SCG India as the lone participant who is trying to develop micro hydro sites in Himachal Pradesh.
The solar section had representation from Nuetech Solar, the 4th largest player in the solar thermal area, Sharada with a broad range of products in solar and SuRe which is innovating in the solar PV area.
A presentation that was not enterprise or investor related was that of Ashok Das, representing World Bank InfoDev which explored the possibility of setting up a Innovation Center to foster and support the cleantech ecosystem.
We also had an interesting presentation from Higgs Advertising – building cleantech markets is a critical challenge.
The closing presentation of the day was made by Razvan Maximiuc of the Cleantech Group, who made the really sobering point that the pace of Cleantech in India did not match up either to the size of the opportunity or the requirements from a climate change standpoint.
Incidentally, that was probably the only time “Copenhagen” was mentioned in the conference. The challenges to cleantech entrepreneurship are closer to home.
Manoj/Sanjoy/Kartik/Satyam
Monday, December 7, 2009
Biggest gathering of CleanTech companies in India - Hyderabad - Dec. 17, 2009
TIE Hyderabad along with New Ventures India, Nexus Venture Partners and SONG Advisors are organizing the biggest gathering of Cleantech companies in India. Here Cleantech companies will get a chance to meet and pitch to leading CleanTech investors and also meet other fellow Cleantech companies. You are cordially invited to attend this. Please register yourself as soon as possible. Also please see attached mailer.
Series: "TIE CleanTech SIG - India"
Event title: "Biggest Gathering of CleanTech Companies in India"
Date: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
Time: 9AM-6PM
Location: Marriot Convention Center
Opposite Hussain Sagar Lake,Tank Bund Road
Hyderabad, 500080 India
Phone: +91 40 27522999
Fees: Rs. 500 (TIE members), Rs. 1000 (Non-TIE members)
Website: http://www.tie-isbconnect.com/cleantech/
Registration: http://www.meraevents.com/event/tie_cleantech_hyderabad
Agenda:
9:00AM-1:00PM :: Renewable Energy Session – Presentation by 20 Renewable energy companies
1:00PM-2:00PM :: Lunch Break
2:00PM-4:00PM :: Energy Efficiency and Services – Presentation by 10 Energy Efficiency companies
4:00PM-5:00PM :: Recycling and Transportation Session – Presentation by 5 Recycling companies
5:00PM-6:00PM :: Smart Grid and M2M Session – Presentation by 5 Smart Grid Companies
Series: "TIE CleanTech SIG - India"
Event title: "Biggest Gathering of CleanTech Companies in India"
Date: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
Time: 9AM-6PM
Location: Marriot Convention Center
Opposite Hussain Sagar Lake,Tank Bund Road
Hyderabad, 500080 India
Phone: +91 40 27522999
Fees: Rs. 500 (TIE members), Rs. 1000 (Non-TIE members)
Website: http://www.tie-isbconnect.com/cleantech/
Registration: http://www.meraevents.com/event/tie_cleantech_hyderabad
Agenda:
9:00AM-1:00PM :: Renewable Energy Session – Presentation by 20 Renewable energy companies
1:00PM-2:00PM :: Lunch Break
2:00PM-4:00PM :: Energy Efficiency and Services – Presentation by 10 Energy Efficiency companies
4:00PM-5:00PM :: Recycling and Transportation Session – Presentation by 5 Recycling companies
5:00PM-6:00PM :: Smart Grid and M2M Session – Presentation by 5 Smart Grid Companies
Monday, November 30, 2009
National Solar Mission - Key Highlights
Government of India approved last week National Solar mission under which following targets and policy changes will happen:
• Create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.
• Ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1000 MW within three years – by 2013;
• Achieve 15 million sq. meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20 million by 2022 (about 10 GWth).
• Deploy 20 million solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022. MNRE will give 90% subsidy for solar lights distributed to off grid villages.
• Key thing in this is that NTPC will now be the power trader for solar power projects and sell the aggregated power to utilities. This will help power project developers to deal with only a single entity rather than multiple entities to get feed-in tariff.
• PPA will be 25 years rather than 10 years now.
• Setting up of a National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education at IIT, Mumbai drawing upon its Department of Energy Science and Engineering and its Centre for Excellence in Nano-Electronics.
Manoj
• Create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.
• Ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1000 MW within three years – by 2013;
• Achieve 15 million sq. meters solar thermal collector area by 2017 and 20 million by 2022 (about 10 GWth).
• Deploy 20 million solar lighting systems for rural areas by 2022. MNRE will give 90% subsidy for solar lights distributed to off grid villages.
• Key thing in this is that NTPC will now be the power trader for solar power projects and sell the aggregated power to utilities. This will help power project developers to deal with only a single entity rather than multiple entities to get feed-in tariff.
• PPA will be 25 years rather than 10 years now.
• Setting up of a National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education at IIT, Mumbai drawing upon its Department of Energy Science and Engineering and its Centre for Excellence in Nano-Electronics.
Manoj
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