"Start-Up Pitch-2k18" - A Business idea Competition - NMAMIT

Karnataka New Age Incubation Centre, NMAMIT (NAIN) in association with ICT Society, Depts. of IT, BT and S&T, Govt. of Karnataka organized a business idea competition "Start-Up Pitch-2k18" on 13th March,2018 at NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. The event was organized with the objective of providing an opportunity to the students to pitch their startup ideas and portray their zeal for startup. Chief Guest, Mr. Pradeep Kumar, Vice President, Technology & Innovation, Robosoft Pvt. Ltd, Udupi inaugurated the event. In his inaugural address, he briefed the importance of Startups and taking their prototypes to next level and the challenge in creating a market for the produced items. Mr. Siddarth Pai, Alumni & Entrepreneur briefed about various existing startups and challenges faced while starting the venture. He shared his experience during his undergraduate days and his thoughts on entrepreneurship. Dr. Niranjan N Chiplunkar, Principal, NMAMIT in his presidential address briefed the students on the importance of NAIN and appreciated the work done by NAIN in the last 4 years. Mr. Shashank Shetty, Regional Co-ordinator, NAIN welcomed the gathering. Mr. Puneeth Reval, Internal Co-ordinator, NAIN & Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE introduced the Chief Guest, Mr. Pradeep Kumar. Ms. Priyadarshini introduced Mr. Siddarth Pai. Mr. Rajath Rao, Internal Co-ordinator, NAIN & Asst. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering delivered the Vote of thanks. Ms. Ankitha A Nayak, Internal Co-ordinator, NAIN & Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE was the MC for the event.

The event had an overwhelming response with 76 business proposals received from 310 students. These proposals were scrutinized and 65 were shortlisted based on innovation, feasibility and business proposal write-up. These in turn were categorized into 6 panels based on their domains and students presented their ideas in their respective panels, in parallel sessions conducted in different seminar halls.

The student co-ordinators comprised of Ms. Pooja Shetty, Mr. Manjunath, Mr. Mukul, and Mr. Venkatesh Pai. The Staff co-ordinators were Mr. Krishna Prasad Rao, Mr. Puneeth R P, Mr. Rajath Rao and Ms. Ankitha A Nayak. Mr. Shashank Shetty, Regional co-ordinator and Dr. Nagesh Prabhu, college co-ordinator were the faculty in charge of the event.