SEPTEMBER 20184 SEPTEMBER 201647Gujarat, a home to some of the best industrious and business savvy populace and preferably known as a magnet for large investment in heavy industries, is celebrating spirit of entrepreneurship with more and more start-ups shaping up the ecosystem. The start-up scene has been undergoing a rapid and drastic progress. In fact, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of tech startups in Gujarat in the past few years. Owing to this, an entire ecosystem of incubators, investors, infl uencers, and accelerators have come up as well. In the past few years, Gujarat has witnessed quite a few investment fi rms coming up for fund raising and making working capital accessible to new ventures. There has been a rise in the number of mentors and advisors to guide the startups coming up in the state too. Industry reports state that IIM-A's CIIE, E-Spark Viridian Accelerator, MICA Incubator, International Centre of Entrepreneurship & Technology, NBDI, Incube Ventures, VentureStudio, IIT-Gandhinagar Incubator, DA-IICT Centre for Entrepreneurship & Incubation, and CED, are some of accelerators and incubators that are helping in development of start-ups in Gujarat. The development has further been supported by the Gujarat government's continuous quest to encourage innovations has helped solve India's pressing problems. Through its upcoming summit to be held from 11th to 13th October this year, it is likely to showcase the forces driving Gujarat's start-up revolution. Industry experts are of the belief that the event will provide an excellent opportunity for both the start-ups and stakeholders to connect with the best and the brightest minds to explore how to fuel their business growth. In our current edition, we have featured a list of such innovative and knowledge based start-ups, who with robust basket of ideas and networking are contributing towards building a powerful start-up ecosystem. We also recommend you to read our cover story on Surbine Recyling, a Jamnagar-based start-up that is creating value in the e-waste space.Nandini MukherjeeManaging EditorGujarat is all geared up for Entrepreneurship EDITOR'S NOTEsiliconindiasiliconindia Vol 4 · Issue 3 - 2 · September, 2018 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Nandini Mukherjee Editorial Team Amit Raja Naik Lakshmi G Pooja Devi Pavithra V.H Subhadarshani Mohanty Sales & Marketing Tapas Ranjan Mallick Garima Anand Editorial Queries editor@startupcity.com To subscribe Visit www.siliconindiamagazine.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 © 2018 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 PerumalVisualisers Vetrivel S Satyajit SubhankarSr. Manager Sales & Marketing Amrit Singh
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