24th September 2024: HYSEA, in partnership with T-Hub, hosted Catalyst 2.0, brought together industry leaders, corporate innovators, and tech startups for lively and productive interactions. The goal of Catalyst was to build partnerships, explore market opportunities, offer mentorship, and attract investments.
Catalyst 2.0 brought together the brightest minds and most promising B2B SaaS & Enterprise Tech startups for an exciting pitch session. These startups showcased their innovative solutions, sparking insightful discussions with corporate innovation leaders, venture capitalists, and industry experts for market/customer access, funding/investments and mentorship opportunities.
- Xeed.oi
- Thriwin
- Razorops
- Induz
- Hire++
- FlyingDuck
- Deeploop
- Automatr
The distinguished panel of corporates and investors consisted of the following: Ajay Jain, Founder & Managing Partner, Silverneedle Ventures, Rathnakar Samavedam, Investment Director & CEO, Hyderabad Angels, Nupur Hemant, Head of Startups investment & Partnerships, LTIMindtree, Jyothsna Kuchimanchi, Vice President, Life Coach, UnitedHealth Group, Amol Gupta, GVP, Global Delivery, Country Head – India, TTEC Digital, Sanjay Jesrani, Founder & CEO, Go North Ventures, Prithvi Chaitanya K, Head of Innovation Programs, Hexagon Capability Center, Sudhanshu Mishra Engineering Manager, GE Grid Automation, GE Grid Solutions.
The platform encouraged open communication between the audience, panelists, and startups, leading to meaningful conversations.
Key Highlights:
• Corporate leaders and investors had active networking with the startups, leading to potential opportunities.
• Both startups and investors requested follow-up meetings, showing the great value of the networking sessions.
• The event covered important topics like product differentiation, go-to-market strategies, customer bases, and funding, by panelists providing valuable insights to founders.
About Catalyst 2.0: Where Next Begins
An exhilarating platform that unites trailblazers to present their groundbreaking ideas to corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and innovation experts. This vibrant ecosystem bridges the gap between visionaries and industry leaders, shaping the future of innovation.
HYSEA Catalyst, an initiative by the startup forum Project Vridhi, aims to collaborate with incubators and accelerators to present domain-focused startups to the industry.
This dynamic forum is led by:
Vinay Agarwal, Global Head-Business HR, Tech Mahindra Limited, HYSEA EC, Future Readiness Council Leader
Aditya Ramamurthy Rao, Vice President of Platform Engineering & Innovation Leader at ServiceNow, Managing Committee Member & Vridhi, Startup Forum leader
