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WENTURE – Entrepreneurship & Incubation Cell
from Prameya Issue19
by Prameya
According to Jack Ma, “If you have never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?”.
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The goal at WENTURE is to create an ecosystem that supports innovation and entrepreneurship through the use of available resources and our network. At WENTURE, we support student entrepreneurial intentions and encourage them to make the best of the resources that are being offered to them. Students are nurtured to forge their own path towards success. WENTURE, has hosted numerous distinguished entrepreneurs at our flagship event - the “Inspired Talk Series”. Here, the invited luminaries, share their entrepreneurial experiences and insights with our students. A few of the speakers over the years include, Mr. P. C. Mustafa (Co-Founder & CEO IDfresh, Mr. Nameet M (Co-Founder & Chief Production Head- First Agro), Mrs. Nasreen Khan (Founder & Creative Head Jute Cottage) and Dr. Amarnath Emertius (Prof IIT-Bombay, Ex- Head –SINE) and Mr. Sanjay Arora - Founder and Managing Director, Zentech Info Solutions Pvt Ltd.
WENTURE also conducts an annual Business Plan competition “Pitch It!” that allows students to compete with their peers and get their ideas vetted by industry experts.
In 2019 WENTURE welcomed two incubatees: Autolligent Technologies and LetsTagOn into its fold. Both these external incubatees now run their operations out of the Innowe Lab of WENTURE. Our objective is to create a positive synergistic environment for startups to incubate in help them grow. This is especially significant for our students as they get to intern and work on live projects with the incubatees.
We also conduct various in-house competitions for the first year students. The winners of these competitions get to undertake field trips along with WENTURE representatives. For example a group of students got the opportunity to visit Shell Apparell Pvt. Ltd one of the leading denim manufacturers in Karnataka. Shell works with Lee, Wrangler, Flying Machine, Pepe Jeans, John Plyers, Arrow etc. to name a few. They also have their own in-house brand of denim called American Bull.
WENTURE aspires to convert students from job seekers to job providers by exposing them to the exiting world of entrepreneurship and changing their mind-sets from the traditional to one that is more modern and industry 4.0 ready.
Mr. Philip V Varughese with Faculty Members and students of WeSleshak Ms. Bhavna Kumar, Head International Expansion Samsung Next, 17 th October 2018
