APRIL 20224Ten bucks, you don't know enough about Kolkata! Well, for one thing, it's not just the cuisine and the rich culture that the city is famous for. West Bengal's capital, in eastern and northeastern parts of India, is making a name for its financial streak. Kolkata is an entrepreneurial hub bustling with entrepreneurs. Most of us don't realize how many startups there are. The `City of Joy has been the birthplace of many successful ventures, some of which graced by women. Siliconindia believes in telling stories of some of the best startups in Kolkata in a way that appreciates their efforts to solve jarring problems. Right now, there's a battery of startups that are thriving in Kolkata, and many more are rapidly coming up, driven by fresh initiatives which are briskly aiding the city's startup boom. Interestingly, the city has is currently home to incubators including IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, Ekta Technology Business Incubation Center, Kolkata Ventures Incubators among few others. Additionally accelerators such as Neoleap Accelerator, Startup Bengal Acceleration centers and Amplifi SaaS Accelerator have also been playing a major supporting role in helping young entrepreneurs set up shop within the City of joy. Additionally there is a healthy presence of co-working spaces and even VC firms that have strengthened the Kolkata startup ecosystem.Moreover, WeWork India, in association with StrongHer Ventures, has launched "Arise", a programme to help create opportunities for women entrepreneurs. The programme will engage with 5,000 startups, mentor 1000 entrepreneurs and invest in over 100 startups over the next five years, says a press release. Women entrepreneurs would get a range of benefits as part of the accelerator programme including knowledge sessions, bootcamps, engaged mentoring, curated networking events and access to follow-on capital. Kolkata is poised to reap the best of these opportunities. Some of the most interesting startups are featured here in this edition.Emanuel Christi DasSpecial EditorKolkata, also City of Ideas!EDITOR'S NOTEsiliconindia Vol 7 · Issue 8 - 1 · APRIL- 2022 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Special Editor Emanuel Christi Das Editorial Team Monica Pallavi J Hridkamal Roy Akankha Chak Sales & Marketing Deepika S. Nischita Prakash Naik Arvind Chakaravathy Editorial Queries startupcity@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit: www.siliconindia.com/subscribe/ Cover price is Rs. 150 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Biz Print Media 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 © 2022 Biz Print Media 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 PerumalVisualiser Souvik Acharya VP Sales & Marketing Shashi Ranjan
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