IIT-Madras had shortlisted Startup Finals Pitch event on 19-Jan 2020 at IIT-Madras. 

Around 12 teams were shortlisted for the final pitch and it had innovative and interesting initiatives across industries – agri to e-vehicles. 

Shyam had been part of such events from IIT-Madras for almost 4-5 years now.  He quoted that some of the initiatives were very interesting and potential to scale higher and that most times they were wanting a proper mentoring support to guide them thru’ the business side of their initiative. 

The Jury members included Shyam Sekar, Founder CEO – Startup Xperts, Chandran Krishnan – CEO Chennai Angels, Gopala Krishnan from Deshpande Startups, and Jeetendra Kang – Director of Flex.  The finalists were given 5 mins to pitch and Q&A session was planned for an additional 5-mins from the Jury end.