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The Hindu
31-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Food summit in Coimbatore on June 18
The TiE Coimbatore and TiE Kerala will organise the second edition of the TiE Food Summit 2025 in Coimbatore on June 18. A press release from the TiE said the event at the Residency Towers will bring together founders, food creators, operators, digital influencers, and investors from across the country and they share a vision of redefining how food is built, experienced, and consumed in India. The event is designed to spotlight emerging trends in food entrepreneurship, celebrate the success of digital-first and direct-to-consumer brands, and address the evolving challenges faced by scalable food businesses in India. The summit will have thought-provoking sessions, founder stories, and interactive discussions. There will be over 20 speakers, including those from other States. Entrepreneurs, food tech startups, restaurateurs, creators, and culinary innovators who want to attend the programme can log on to The first edition of the event was held in Bengaluru, said Ranjana Singhal, Managing Director of Cafe Totaram.
The Hindu
15-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Session for entrepreneurs to leverage AI on May 24
The TiE Mysuru chapter will be organising a masterclass on 'How to Use AI and Agents for Automation and Massive Business Growth', featuring Anirudh Narayan, co-founder and chief growth officer at in Mysuru on May 24. The session is designed to help entrepreneurs, start-ups, and business professionals harness the power of modern AI tools and agents to scale faster and operate smarter. 'AI is no longer optional—it's essential. For today's entrepreneurs, leveraging AI is the key to staying competitive, agile, and scalable,' a press release said. The masterclass on AI will be held at Jyothi Hall in Hotel Southern Star from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The masterclass will be followed by a networking high tea, offering an opportunity to connect with fellow entrepreneurs, professionals, and innovators. Visit for registration, the release said.
The Hindu
13-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Mysuru: CFTRI can emerge as a launchpad for entrepreneurs, says expert
TiE Mysuru chapter president Bhaskar Kalale emphasised food-tech entrepreneurship during the event to mark National Technology Day 2025 on Wednesday and said that India is seeing an explosion in the sector. 'From millet-based snacks to vertical farming, young innovators are solving real problems. But often, they lack the deep scientific validation that institutions like CFTRI can provide. This is where CFTRI must evolve from a knowledge hub to a launchpad for entrepreneurs,' he said. Addressing scientists and the staff of the CSIR-CFTRI on the occasion of National Technology Day-2025, in the institute campus in Mysuru, he said, a student here has developed a high-protein biscuit using waste pulses. Instead of publishing it alone, she partnered with an incubator to launch it as a rural enterprise. Likewise, a researcher working on food spoilage uses predictive analytics to build a supply-chain startup with shelf-life monitoring. 'We need technopreneurs—scientists who are also problem-solvers, communicators, and business leaders. CFTRI can nurture ideas through innovation labs, patent clinics, business mentoring, and seed funding platforms,' Mr. Kalale said. 'AI is reshaping every industry—and food is no exception. In food tech, AI can be the invisible force that drives efficiency, personalization, and safety,' he said. CFTRI can think of using computer vision to detect contaminants in real time (AI in food safety); analyzing thousands of food samples to uncover micronutrient trends (AI in nutrition research) and designing recipes tailored to regional deficiencies or specific age groups (AI in food formulation) and forecasting demand, optimizing distribution, and extending shelf life (AI in reducing waste), he said. 'But AI is not a magic wand. It needs curated data, domain expertise, and continuous learning. CFTRI is uniquely positioned to lead AI-driven food innovation—because you have the science, the data, and the vision,' he noted. He urged the CFTRI to invest in AI capacity-building—collaborate with tech institutions, bring in data scientists, and build AI-ready labs. The future does not belong to the isolated innovator. It belongs to the collaborative ecosystem—where academia, startups, corporates, farmers, and consumers co-create solutions. Mr. Kalale spoke on the enormous potential for collaboration between TiE and CFTRI. TiE, as many of you know, is a global network of entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, and thought leaders committed to fostering entrepreneurship. We have seen firsthand how mentorship, funding access, and global exposure can transform a researcher's idea into a scalable startup. CFTRI holds decades of scientific depth, credibility, and food innovation expertise. 'TiE can help CFTRI researchers and students translate lab research into market-ready ventures through mentorship, business model development, and investor connections. CFTRI can become a technology partner to TiE's startup ecosystem, offering validated solutions and expert guidance to food-tech entrepreneurs,' he suggested. He said TiE Angels and other investor networks can support deep-tech food ventures incubated at CFTRI, helping them scale faster and smarter. CFTRI Director Sridevi Annapurna Singh presided over the event.
Web Release
26-04-2025
- Business
- Web Release
TiE Women MENA 2025 launches sixth edition to champion the next generation of women entrepreneurs
The Dubai chapter of TiE Global has officially launched the sixth annual TiE Women MENA 2025 competition, an empowering initiative designed to support and elevate women entrepreneurs across the region. The program runs five parallel tracks: TiE Women Emirati, TiE Women UAE, TiE Women Saudi Arabia, TiE Women Egypt, and TiE Women Rest of MENA. The competition kicks off with an application phase open until June 15, 2025. Through multiple rounds of screening, an impartial jury comprising TiE Dubai Charter Members will identify the most innovative ventures across the five tracks. Shortlisted entries will move forward to regional competitions in September, with finalists presenting their startups in a series of competitive pitch events. Winners from each track will then advance to the MENA finals, set to take place during Expand North Star at GITEX Global in Dubai Harbour this October. The journey concludes with the Global Finals, to be hosted at the TiE Global Summit in Jaipur, India, in December. The program aims to foster equal opportunities for women entrepreneurs, enabling them to thrive and make a meaningful impact on their economies. This year, it continues to spotlight the role of women in business, with a strong emphasis on developing their skills through a structured and supportive framework. At every stage, selected finalists will benefit from a series of one-on-one mentoring clinics, targeted workshops led by TiE Dubai members, networking opportunities with industry leaders, and direct exposure to investors and experts. TiE Dubai Charter Members, a community of seasoned business leaders and entrepreneurs, will drive mentorship and training, offering startups vital insights to scale their businesses. Raed Hafez, Co-Chair of TiE Women MENA 2025 added: 'Our vision is to embrace, engage, and empower women entrepreneurs across the globe, regardless of their enterprise size, origin, or background. With a mission built on learning, mentorship, funding access, scalability, and community, TiE Women MENA 2025 aims to be a catalyst for a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. This support is more critical than ever, as recent data shows male-only ventures in the MENA region still raise five times more funding than women-only ventures, highlighting the pressing need to create greater opportunities and access for female founders.' Carlina Marani, Charter Member and Co-Chair of TiE Women MENA 2025, said: 'Despite women leading less than 5% of businesses in the MENA region, the momentum for change is undeniable, with the UAE alone seeing a 23.1% increase in women's participation in the private sector in 2024. Being part of TiE Women 2024 as a mentor showed me firsthand the enormous impact this program has on female founders. Under the guidance of TiE Dubai, through mentorship, training, and exposure at GITEX and across the TiE global network, women entrepreneurs truly flourish, strengthening not just their businesses but the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a whole.' Tapping into the vast, underutilised pool of female talent presents a significant opportunity, with research indicating that the MEA region could add $812 billion to its GDP over the next three years if gender parity across the region mirrors the progress seen in the UAE. Since its inception in 2020, TiE Women MENA has witnessed double-digit growth in the number of applicants annually, with startups increasingly focused on social impact sectors such as HealthTech, EdTech, Sustainability, and Life Sciences. As a mission-driven initiative, the competition collaborates with 16+ accelerators, incubators, venture capital funds, and angel investor networks, leveraging their combined strengths to empower and elevate women entrepreneurs across the startup ecosystem. The TiE Women MENA 2024 winners stand as shining examples: Maryam Al Ansari (Itifaq, UAE) using AI for legal research; Ria Chakrabarti (Veristyle, UAE) leveraging computer vision for personal styling; Nadine Farrag (Farahy, Egypt), founder of Egypt's largest wedding platform; Fatimah Al Abbad (Magic Pin, Saudi Arabia) developing minimally invasive orthopaedic devices; and Nivine Hachem (Paltic, Rest of MENA) creating sustainable building materials from recycled plastics. The TiE Women Global Finals winner will receive an equity-free cash grant of $50,000, further boosting their business growth and impact. Open to female-founded or co-founded startups less than seven years old (registered after January 1, 2018), the competition seeks to boost ventures with demonstrated traction. Participating founders must hold at least 33% equity. Application details and submission can be accessed through the official TiE Women website.
The Hindu
24-04-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
T.N. Startup Summit: Mindset shift crucial to building global brands from small towns, note panellists
Mindset shift is the need of the hour to build global brands from small towns. This was one of the key deliberations at a session organised as part of The Hindu-Tamil Nadu Startup Summit 2025 in the city on Thursday. The summit was hosted by The Hindu along with SRM Institute of Science and Technology and co-presented by StartupTN in association with Sify Technologies. Tracing The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)-Chennai's journey in inspiring, mentoring and networking entrepreneurs, its executive director, Akhila Rajeswar, said the organisation was now present in 37 districts across the State. She was addressing the session on 'Nurturing Entrepreneurship in south Tamil Nadu: Opportunities and Challenges.' TiE had now turned its focus from startups to micro, small and medium enterprises and holds networking events in vernacular language to be more accessible to entrepreneurs in the State, she said. Retention of talent, digital divide and lack of resources were some of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in south Tamil Nadu. Panellists also spoke on the self-imposed constraints among the entrepreneurs in the southern districts which were restricting them from scaling up their business. On the funding pattern and investors, Chandu Nair, startup advisor and member, executive board, The Chennai Angels, said Tamil Nadu was yet to develop a robust ecosystem of entrepreneurs and enterprises interested in funding startups through efforts like equity investment. Regulations by various government authorities were another deterrent for aspiring entrepreneurs. Nearly 65% of the regulatory reforms fall within the purview of the State. Besides revamping education for research, entrepreneurs must draw examples from other countries like Israel and Vietnam that have built thriving business ecosystem. Describing south Tamil Nadu as trade zone, Sivakumar Palanisamy, vice-president, StartupTN, said many entrepreneurs were reluctant partially due to fear of failures and called for a change of mindset. Startup TN, with regional hubs in various places, had learnt that southern districts did not imitate entrepreneurship in urbanscape but created their own identity and promoted their culture and traditions through their ventures, he added. A framework was being built in south Tamil Nadu, taking into account affordability, accessibility and availability. It was time to prepare the workforce for AI driven future and create new streams of business models, Mr. Palanisamy said. Panelists underlined the need to prepare entrepreneurs to experiment and explore their potential to build international brands. Sangeetha Kandavel, Senior Assistant Editor, The Hindu, moderated the session.
