Six Nagaland based Startups won awards at the Northeast Startup Summit at Taj Vivanta, Guwahati on January 29.
Dimapur, January 30 (MExN): The North Eastern Council (NEC), in association with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, organised the Northeast Startup Summit at Taj Vivanta, Guwahati on January 29.
During the summit, six Nagaland based Startups won awards in different categories, including Online Express Nagaland, Ilandlo Services Pvt. Ltd and Jack of Few Trades in the incubation category and Ngurie Organic Pvt. Ltd , Ahibo Pvt. Ltd. and Gracious Handloom under Pre-incubation category were amongst the top 20 Startup (from 120) and top 25 Startup (from 150) respectively.
The event hailed as the “biggest Start Up Summit from the North East” recorder participation from over 300 Startup founders from across NE region, stated a press release received here.
North East Entrepreneurship Development Program (NEEDP) is a join collaboration of NEC and IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, which is aimed at creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem that can help foster, Socio-Economic Development and Employment Generation in the North East region. As a part of this initiative, North East Entrepreneurship Challenge (Hunt) is being organized for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs across all the eight states of NE to identify a target group of 270 entrepreneurs through a systematic, transparent selection process ensuring representation from each state. More than 2000+ Startup file an application out of which 120 were selected from Incubation and 150 Startup from Pre-incubation.
These startups were taken through incubation (for revenue stage startups) and pre-incubation (for pre-revenue stage startups) programmes - which help them to commercialize and grow their businesses through five bootcamp held across different venues in Guwahati over a period of more than a year.
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