APRIL 20204The growth of a state's economy greatly depends on innovation and entrepreneurship. The state of Punjab has long held a significant place in India and has excelled in various sectors across the spectrum like Industry, Agriculture, Education, Health, Literature, Sports, Arts and Culture. Punjab has been blessed with top infrastructure, human capital, enterprising and progressive people who strive to transform every potential opportunity into a booming success. Moreover, the State has identified that startups and entrepreneurship as the key pillar for economic growth, job creation, competitiveness and wealth creation.Over the course of the past few years, there has been a rise in the number of promising startups in Punjab. Spread across sectors such as agritech, fintech and more, the startups have attracted the keen eye of the stalwarts from the ecosystem.With the enabling organisations in Chandigarh and the major cities of Punjab such as Ludhiana and Amritsar, the state's start-up ecosystem is preparing to compete with other emerging start-up hubs. Organisations such as TiE have brought startups the opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs, investors from across the country.Besides, incubators and coworking spaces are also doing their bit to help the state's start up get the right exposure and platform for growth. The start-ups based out in Punjab are also leaving no stone unturned to bethe most preferred places to work for professionals today and how their innovative business ideas are changing the way we live. These start-ups are building a high-trust workplace culture that engages employees and drives better business.In our current edition, we have featured a list of "10 Best Startups to Work For -Punjab". This curated list captures the essence of serving the new age Indian consumer and businesses by new-age start-ups. It is the constant endeavour of theseworkplaces to employ the same kind of rigour and discipline in designing and delivering experiences to their employees, as they would do for their customers.Do share your thoughts with us.Nandini MukherjeeManaging EditorThe Changing Entrepreneurship Wave in Punjab EDITOR'S NOTEVisualisers S Sivasankar J Dennis Bennito siliconindiasiliconindia Vol 5 · Issue 10 - 2 · April 02, 2020 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Aparna Roy Monica Pallavi J Likhith Aradhya Subhadarshini Mohanty Sales & Marketing Vedant Sharma Niteesh Pandey Editorial Queries startupcity@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit: www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ Cover price is ` 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2020 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.sales@startupcity.comGroup Art Director Ashok KumarCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar
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