The Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Coimbatore, and TiE Coimbatore will organise Jump Start, a start-up conclave here on March 11.
According to Vanitha Mohan, president of the chamber, the event has over 650 registrations and many of the participants are from rural areas. Apart from the event, the chamber is also looking at setting up an incubation facility. “We are talking to several organisations and we are yet to finalise the details,” she said.
She added that start-ups needed support for activities such as marketing and finance. They could be part of a manufacturing hub, get into product development, and need not be technology-based too. In Coimbatore, there were more than 300 start-ups.
There would be start-ups in the non-IT sector too. Coimbatore needed more number of incubators.
G. Karthikeyan, president of TiE Coimbatore, said the event was mostly for students to motivate them to become entrepreneurs. In the next stage, contests would be held for students and select start-ups will be supported.
“There is a huge scope to promote entrepreneurship in Coimbatore as it already has the ecosystem,” he said. Those from rural areas, who want to become entrepreneurs (aspiring entrepreneurs and those who already have a start-up), should be encouraged, he added.
The programme at Le Meridien will have 10 sessions. The speakers will be from different domains such as technology, funding, banking, and food and dairy. Suhas Patil, chairman of TiE Global, and Ma Foi Pandiarajan, founder of Ma Foi Consultants, will take part in the inaugural.
