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ScooTalks SURGES ahead….in top startup event
And we, the ADDADOT technologies, founder of ScooTalks have been nominated to be amongst those lucky few who will pitch in groups of eight for the SURGE Pitching Stage.
Risky, exciting, innovative… just some of the words that describe a startup. While startups may not offer a lot of stability due to their dynamic operating environment, what they do offer is an opportunity to be competitive and to think and perform out of the box.
It is these very driving principles that have led to SURGE 2016 shortlisting top 40 startups from across India for PITCH, a pitching competition where Indian startups will battle it out for the Best Startup of the Year crown. And, finding a place of pride in the top 40 is ScooTalks, an offering from ADDADOT Technologies LLP founded by Prashant Gupta and Bahul Chandra.
SURGE 2016, which is Web Summit’s first conference in India and being held in Bengaluru on February 23-24, is already being hailed as one of the most influential tech networking events in the country. In five years, Web Summit, held annually in Europe, has grown from 400 attendees to over 42,000 from more than 134 countries and is now dubbed ‘the best technology conference on the planet’. Forty of the startups invited to attend in 2014 have raised a combined $1 billion.
With the entry to the internationally recognized event open to all startups across the country, there were an overwhelming number of applications from which 400 startups were selected in the first round. Based on their potential, 40 out of them made it to PITCH and have been invited to pitch on stage to a jury in seven minutes. Eight companies will make it to the semi finals, from which three finalists will present their big idea to a jury featuring heavyweights such as Di-Ann Eisnor of Waze and Sachin Bansal of Flipkart on day two.
ScooTalks will be represented by co-founder and CEO Bahul Chandra and COO Deepak Sharma in the preliminary stage of the PITCH on day one.
Winning or losing is part of the game but right now it’s a moment to rejoice the prestigious entry into SURGE 2016. Kudos to Team ADDADOT!