Register yourself for the StartUp India Investor Connect Platform that offers AI-based matchmaking. Check the details below!
About StartUp India Investor Connect
Startup India Investor Connect is a platform that connects startups with investors to facilitate investment opportunities through AI based matchmaking. Through this, entrepreneurs will be able to directly reach out to multiple investors using one single application and pitch their startup idea.
Objectives
- AI-Based Matchmaking
- Use AI-Based Matchmaking to connect startups with investors
- Investment Opportunities
- Facilitate Investment in Startups
- Marketplace
- Create a virtual marketplace of investors for innovative startups
- Access in Emerging Cities
- Enable connections between investors and startups in emerging cities
For StartUps
- How does it work?
- We know all great innovations need a big voice to stand out from the noise and be spotted by the right audience. So we offer you even more opportunities to get noticed
- Create your profile
- Get instant visibility on our platform. Just so you know, you control what is, and what isn’t visible to your profile visitors
- Apply for Investments
- Search for the right Investment partner, suitable for your business. Apply to investment requirements of investors.
- Start unlocking investment opportunities
- Once your profile is validated, Corporate Investors and VCs seeking your innovation will be able to connect with you.
For Investors
Access to Indian StartUps
- Build your profile
- Get instant visibility of the Indian Startup ecosystem
- Create investment opportunities
- Identify matching startups based on your requirement
FAQs
What is this Portal about?
The portal will be a one stop gateway, like a B2B Marketplace, for Indian startup ecosystem to interact and transact with one another especially amongst investors, and startups. It will be the national portal for investor-startup matchmaking and act as a single gateway to access information required by the startup ecosystem from central/state government departments. The Platform also intends to be developed into a knowledge hub for potential Entrepreneurs for beginning their journey.
How this portal would be helping in the meetups of startup and investors?
A strong support is needed for the innovations to become great. This portal provides that by providing right audience to the startups and investors. This will be the best way to get noticed by various segments of the investing options like VCs, PEs, etc.
This is only a matchmaking platform and its intent to bring startups and investors on a common meeting place. Registering on this website shall not guarantee or ensure funding. The individual deals shall be evaluated and negotiated outside this platform.
SIDBI shall not be responsible for any terms and agreement between the parties and shall not create or maintain any details/reasons, except the outcome, which will be entered and/or used by either the investors or Startups for reference/MIS purposes only.
How do startups connect with investors?
There are 2 ways for a startup to connect with an investor:
1. Respond to a investment opportunity: Investors would launch opportunities to invest in startups that meet the requirements described in the investment opportunity. You can respond to these opportunities and get a chance to get funded
2. Direct connection with investors: Startup can specify relevant criteria such as industry focus, technology focus etc., and search for investors registered in this portal. The portal will allow you to send direct message to the investor expressing your interest and proposal. Investors will be able to see your profile maintained in this portal.
How will this portal add value to the startups?
This platform enables the perfect match for the startups and investors to create a healthy ecosystem where investors add value to the startups in various ways like facilitating smooth operations in different departments of the startups and upscaling the efficiency. The portal will be the hub of all interactions across various modules facilitated between several stakeholders.
What are the basic requirements for the startups to get recognized?
The startups should be recognized by the DPIIT. Following criteria will be considered for the same:
1. Startup Age: Period of existence and operations should not be exceeding 10 years from the Date of Incorporation.
2. Startup Type: Incorporated as a Private Limited Company, a Registered Partnership Firm or a Limited Liability Partnership.
3. Annual Turnover: Should have an annual turnover not exceeding Rs. 100 crores for any of the financial years since its Incorporation.
4. Originality: Startup should not have been formed by splitting up or reconstructing an already existing business.
5. Innovative and Scalable: Should work towards development or improvement of a product, process or service and/or have scalable business model with high potential for creation of wealth & employment.
What are the key features of the portal for Startups?
The portal would act as a key Startup Repository and will have the capability of building a database of DPIIT recognized startups. The startups registered on the portal would be able to-
1.Create and share detailed business venture profile and pitch deck with other registered accounts.
2. Assign roles (owner, editor, manager) to define account accessibility
3. Create, share and conduct virtual meetings, events and exhibitions
4. Filter and save relevant news, alerts and information
5. Filter and save relevant profiles of potential investors
6. A chat solution to initiate chat messages with other registered accounts
7. Access a cloud storage to store and share promotion content and business documents
8. Initiate deal flow transaction with an investor profile, which includes pitch meeting, discussion, document sharing and validation, agreement signing and deal closure
9. Publish news, updates, blogs and stories that can be recommended to other registered accounts and/or relevant sections on the Startup India Hub
What is the surety for getting the funds from the investors for startups registered on this portal?
The process will be transparent. It will be moderated where the selected startups will get the funds post approval from the investors. There are 100+ parameters that assures the correct portrayal of the startups to the investors. Based on the same, decision shall be made by the investors. SIDBI will have no role in the decision-making process.
