Bhopal

Stark Expo being organized by MANIT

Staff Reporter

India’s Largest Startup Expo, Stark Expo was organized by Team Entrepreneurship Cell MANIT on Sunday.

It was held in partnership with Skill Lync, Ibentos, AWS, AIC-RNTU, Freshworks, ZebPay, The Startup Lab, Taskade, Screwup Capital and India Accelerator, and support from MANIT administration and faculty coordinators, Akhilesh Barve, Abhinav Varshney and A Subbarao, Stark Expo provided a platform for the most innovative and disruptive startups from all over the country to interact with thousands of potential customers and investors.

In this prolific event, startups underwent legit screening processes undertaken by investors and partners, where they will gain a chance to pitch their product to raise funding from Angel Investors and VCs.

As many as 50 startups pitched in front of 42 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors and a student audience of 5000 on a virtual 3-D Platform by ibentos: India's Leading Virtual Event Platform.

Investors personally connected with 29 startups for further details for funding; and many more are still being contacted by various investors. 7 Startups hired interns for diverse profiles.

Investors and founders left positive feedback and many appreciations for the event and the metaverse platform on which the event was held.

The Expo was inaugurated by Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan as Chief Guest and Guest of Honor was Director of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, NS Raghuvansh.