Cohort - II

Women Entrepreneurs in the Green Economy!

Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha

Fully funded workshop for women entrepreneurs working in the green economy.

Date : August 4, 2023

Venue : Lemon Tree Hotel, Gachibowli, Hyderabad

Deadline : July 30, 2023

About The Program

After the success of our first cohort, Alliance for Commercialization and Innovation Research (ACIR) and the U.S. Consulate in Hyderabad are organizing another daylong workshop for Women Entrepreneurs in the Green Economy in Hyderabad.

Selected women-led startups from the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha will receive coaching in hard and soft entrepreneurial skills, mentoring and support to be investor ready. A local peer network to provide continuous support will be formed towards the end of the program.

The program is fully funded by the U.S. Consulate in Hyderabad and will be delivered by the ACIR which runs the Nexus incubator program in Delhi.

Benefits of the Program

Fully funded by the U.S. Consulate, Hyderabad
Access to funding programs and connections with potential investors in the green and impact sectors
Expert coaching in launching and growing your startup
Build a strong local network
Peer-to-Peer learning
Foster collaborations
Certificate of completion from the U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad and ACIR

Learning from the Program

Increased knowledge of the fundamental skills and tools needed for building a business
Coaching in hard and soft entrepreneurial skills, mentoring, and networking with experts, funders and businesses in the industry
Access to best American practices combined with local, practical mentoring on launching and running a sustainable business
Learning on how to overcome the day-to-day challenges women entrepreneurs face in running that business
Skills to pitch your idea to outside investors and customers

Eligibility

Only women entrepreneurs in the age group of 21-45 are eligible to apply

Applicant should be
running a business or aspiring to do so

The business
should be in the
green economy

Venture should be registered in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, or Odisha

Selections Announcement - August 1, 2023 (rolling basis)

Agenda

Time	Agenda
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Registration/Check-in, Morning Tea
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Welcome remarks and Identifying value propositions by Erik Azulay, President, ACIR
11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Art of Capital Raising & Pitching by Shaik Yaseen Shareef, Director, FundEnable
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Networking Lunch
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Entrepreneurial journey by a women entrepreneur - Pratibha Bharathi, Founder, Nature's Bio Plastic
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Intellectual Property with Rahul Bagga, Founder & Managing Director, Aumirah
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Expert session on “Intellectual Property Strategies for Women-Led Startups: Driving Innovation and Growth” by Nancy Wang, Director - Product & Engineering & General Manager, Amazon Web Services
5:00 pm onwards	Reception with networking

Erik Azulay

President, ACIR

Erik Azulay is a technology commercialization expert and serial entrepreneur specializing in small business startups and international market strategies. He has managed commercialization and incubation projects in 12 countries around the world and launched and sold two logistics companies based in the United States and Russia.

As President of the Alliance for Commercialization and Innovation Research, he currently runs the Nexus Innovation Hub and Incubator in New Delhi, funded by the U.S. State Department, to support the startup ecosystem in India. The Nexus Incubator showcases best practices in incubation and entrepreneurship from the U.S. and India and its startups have raised over $40 million in funding.

Nancy Wang

Director – Product & Engineering & General Manager Amazon Web Services

Nancy is a product & engineering executive, advisor, and investor with significant experience in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and SaaS. Nancy advises Fortune 10 companies on accelerating revenue growth, and she advises startups on attracting their first 100K enterprise customers. Currently, Nancy is the Director of Product & Engineering and General Manager at Amazon Web Services, where she leads P&L, product, engineering, and design for its data protection and data security businesses. Passionate about growing early-stage startups, Nancy is a Venture Partner for Felicis Ventures, where she works with early-stage data infra and security companies on their product-market fit, market segmentation, and product scaling. Excited to advance more women into technical roles, Nancy is the founder & board chair of Advancing Women in Tech, a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has already informed and educated 30,000 Coursera learners worldwide on how to get their first, or next, tech leadership role.

Our Trainers

Rahul Bagga

Founder & Managing Director, Aumirah

Rahul Bagga is Founder & Managing Director of Aumirah (Aumirah IP and Aumirah Analytics). He has also founded a legal tech company - IP Sarthi Legal Tech Pvt Ltd to develop online tools for managing several aspects of IP.

He is MSc DIC in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London and is a registered Indian Patent Agent with more than 13 years' experience of working in the IP sector in three different countries. At Aumirah, he leads a spirited, high performing and young team of engineers, lawyers and analysts. Through Aumirah, he has served more than 1000+ domestic and foreign clients over the last 3+ years in a range of matters pertaining to intellectual property rights in India and across the world. His specialization is patent law and has over the years gained significant expertise, and with his spirited colleagues at Aumirah, he has advised companies/startups/MSMEs from across multiple industries such as EVs, Energy, AI, Robotics, Biotechnology, Pharma, Drones, Defence, Automotive, General Engineering, Agriculture and nanotechnology. He also serves as mentor to various other Delhi/NCR based incubators such as Nexus & Aspire Labs, and has also been empanelled by i-hub Gujarat.

Further, of late, together with his team, he has been working closely on drawing contracts, agreements, term sheets, and advising startups and MSMEs in transactions and private equity matters.

Shaik Yaseen Shareef

Director, FundEnable

Yaseen is Director at FundEnable – a platform that helps startup founders in raising a round of capital through capability building, access to investors and funding closure process. FundEnable has over 2,000 subscribers and has raised over 200 Cr of funding for tech ventures. FundEnable also provides seed fund management services to incubators for their NIDHI SSP and SISF schemes. Yaseen is a part of seed funding committees of various incubators such as KIIT TBI, AIC GIM, aIDEA, AIC – MFIE -IM-BHU etc. Prior to FundEnable, Yaseen has experience with organizations such as 24x7.store, Sardar Patel Technology Business Incubator,

Luharia Technologies etc. Yaseen is a visiting faculty for Entrepreneurial Finance at Mahindra University. Also mentor startups at e-hub Mahindra University, XLRI XSeed, aIDEA at NAARM, GINSERV, STPI Bengaluru, Startup TN etc.

About Us

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Under the leadership of the Consul General, the United States Consulate General in Hyderabad promotes U.S. interests and the U.S.-India bilateral relationship in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The Consulate does so through diplomatic and cultural relations with government officials, the business community, and the general public. The U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad also provides an array of services to U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Hyderabad’s consular district, and visa services to persons seeking to travel to the United States for official, tourism, business or educational purposes.

Established in 2009, the U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad is the newest U.S. diplomatic office to open in India, the first new mission since India’s independence. It is but one reflection of the United States’ commitment to strengthening its relationship and engagement with the people and Government of India.

The Alliance for Commercialization and Innovation Research (ACIR) is an American non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization providing consulting, training and program management services in the fields of innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.

ACIR has successfully run entrepreneurship programs around the world including in South Korea, Kazakhstan, Russia and the United States, with the most recent being the Nexus Incubator and Startup Hub in New Delhi, India. Nexus is considered one of the top business incubators in India, having graduated over 184 companies who have gone on to raise over $40 million USD in outside funding.