TechCrunch brings event series to India in pact with PlatformPlay
The partnership will bring a series of two-day conferences to India starting with the Bangalore conference in November 2013
Less than two months after the launch of Rammohan Sundaram’s PlatformPlay, the venture has partnered with TechCrunch to bring a series of two-day conferences to India in the year ahead.
The TechCrunch conference series in India will be a three-city event, starting with Bangalore in November 2013, followed by Mumbai in April 2014 and culminating in New Delhi in August 2014.
Like pending conferences held in the Rome, Beijing and Moscow, TechCrunch’s events in India will include notable tech, investor and entrepreneurship speakers, a start-up pitch competition and a start-up exhibition floor. There will be space for sponsors to display their goods and services.
“A TechCrunch event provides the global platform that the Indian tech ecosystem needs to enable our start-ups to flourish and to fuel the growth that we need to become a major player on the international stage,” said Rammohan Sundaram, Chairman and Managing Director of PlatformPlay. “Given that venture capitalists invested close to $1.2 billion in the Indian marketplace last year alone, it’s clear the tech community is eager to find the next big thing in and from India.”
“Everyone knows about India’s wealth of techand entrepreneurial talent, and we are eager to bring our TechCrunch events platform to India to help everyone move forward,” added Ned Desmond, Chief Operating Officer of TechCrunch. “We believe that hostingthis conference series inIndiais an important step to deepen the connections amongst the global tech community.”
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PlatformPlay is Sundaram’s second entrepreneurial venture that is being backed by SVG Media.
