by admin | May 25, 2021 | Entrepreneurship, Startup Financing
Mumbai, (IANS) Indian entrepreneurship propeller Nasscom 10000 Startups has teamed up with IvyCamp in a strategic alliance to build an Internet of Things (IoT) entrepreneurship ecosystem.
“With this collaboration with IvyCamp, we aim to promote an IoT ecosystem, which is vibrant and at the same time innovative, which will help our country attain a leadership role in this field,” said Nasscom 10000 Startups vice president Rajat Tandon in a statement.
The collaboration will connect start-ups, investors, mentors and industry bodies to work together while IvyCap Ventures’ initiatives IvyCamp will provide guidance on formulating and driving the IoT business.
One of the key activities of the collaboration will entail organising an annual Rendezvous for the IoT Ecosystem. The first event has been lined up at Nasscom 10000 Startups’ Navi Mumbai Warehouse on July 1, and will focus on bringing together innovators, mentors, investors and corporates from IoT space to impart education on latest innovations and challenges.
“Through this association, we will provide a platform to the budding entrepreneurs to connect with the industry veterans to seek guidance for formulating and driving the IOT innovations and help the ventures grow,” said IvyCap Ventures CEO Vikram Gupta.
IvyCamp is a unified technology based platform for innovation and entrepreneurship while its parent IvyCap Ventures is in the process of raising its second fund of Rs 600 crore.
IvyCap has already deployed Rs 250 crore through its maiden fund in 2015, with investments in FT cash and Grabon rent start-ups.
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneur
Bengaluru:(IANS) Women applicants have 50 percent higher chances of bagging an IT-Business Process Management job than men and they constitute 51 percent of the entry level hiring, a Nasscom’s report said on Tuesday.
According to the ‘Gender Diversity & Inclusivity trends in the IT-BPM Sector’ report, published by Nasscom and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), to assess gender diversity and inclusivity situation stated that the industry itself is increasingly turning women centric.
“At Nasscom, we believe that development is never complete unless it is across all sections through participation and inclusion of people irrespective of their gender, creed or colour,” said the industry body chairman B.V.R. Mohan Reddy at the ninth edition of Nasscom Diversity and Inclusion Summit 2016 on Tuesday.
According to the report, IT-BPM industry’s focus is shifting from inclusivity and diversity to empowerment while women are also moving away from support roles to shoulder core business operations with training and development.
Interestingly, women job applications rose by five percent from 2012 and stood at 28 percent of all job applications while job profile evolution from support role to core business role grew by two percent from the same time.
And overall women managerial roles in proportion to total women employees increased by two percent from fiscal 2012-13.
Though diversity and inclusion are showing promise, the industry still has a long way to become a completely inclusive one.
“While gender equality has been established at entry levels, women still constitute a far lower share of CXO roles; the trend of women resigning at a higher rate than men as their personal priorities change is hampering this growth,” said Nasscom in a statement.
Aimed at encouraging and celebrating diversity and inclusion, Nasscom announced corporate awards at the summit and honoured companies under six different categories for efforts to creating inclusive environment.
Goldman Sachs Services, SAP Labs India, Wipro, ANZ Bengaluru Hub, EMC India Centre of Excellence and Bhuvaneswar Naik from SAP Labs India were awarded.
