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The three Stages of Women Start-up Program 2020 are:

Stage 1: A five-week training through Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be offered on the Swayam machine modularity and IoT with robust hard-
platform. ware helps to provide visibility on machine

Stage 2:A two-month virtual launch pad program where the selected start-ups will work towards develop- failures, and quickly resolve the issue, thus
ing their prototype. reducing the machine’s downtime.
Stage 3:The Finalists will undergo a six-month incubation program which is designed by NSRCEL and its

partner institutes where they will work on product development and scaling up. In the end, the incubated
start-ups will pitch their prototype / products to the Screening Committee.

WSP 2.0

Virtual Mentoring session for the cohort of WSP 2.0 was conducted on 9 May 2020 and
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13 May 2020.This was an interactive session where the members of the cohort met virtually and
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discussed their progress with Prof. Mohammad Shameem Jawed, Chairperson (Entrepreneurship Devel-
opment).

Interaction Session with TIDE start-ups

An e-meet with Prof. M Shameem Jawed, Director and COO, IIMV-FIELD & Chair (Entrepreneurship
Development), IIMV was organized on 30 -31 July 2020. This was an interactive session where the
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participants got to know more about the program and the Institute.

Virtual Event

A virtual session “Women Who Ventured: Meet the successful entrepreneurs from IIM Visakhapatnam's

Women Start-up Program cohort” was conducted on 18 August 2020. This session was an opportunity
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for the participants to e-meet some of our alumni women entrepreneurs and learn more about their jour-
neys, understand the application process and the structure of the Women Start-up Program and get their

queries and concerns clarified. Around 150+ entrepreneurs attended this event

Incubation under TIDE 2.0 Selected Candidates

in the EiR Category:

The last date for applying for TIDE 2.0 program at IIMV-FIELD 1. Sagar Mukherjee (Visakhapatnam)
was 18 th May 2020. Out of the 123 applications received, 24 – [ProSafe], a digital pill which when
applications were shortlisted for the final selection cum pitch consumed by a subject (useful for

event. Of the 24 applications, 12 were selected for Entrepreneur- women safety) at a time of utter
ship -in -Resident (EiR) category and 12 were selected for distress can act as the broadcaster of

grants. the real-time location of the victim to

their emergency contacts and with the
The Final selection cum pitch event was held on 11 th July 2020. Police authorities in the loop.

Two start-ups were selected under the grants category and three
start-ups were selected under the EiR category. Four start- ups 2. Raja Kumar Bollem (Visakhapat-

were put under wait list under the grant’s category. nam) – [INOVMAC Pvt. Ltd.] uses

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