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IIM Udaipur’s annual entrepreneurship fest E-Summit and Prarambh 2021 conclude

Prarambh 2021 marked its success in fulfilling the competition’s objective, overseeing enthusiastic participation from all over the country. The event received 330+ entries for the initial phase of the competition and selected the top 10 teams with a minimum viable product. The selected teams embarked on a 5-week mentorship program to prepare for pitching on the final day. The pitching round was followed by a rigorous Q&A session wherein the teams were provided with priceless feedback and suggestions by the judges or investors.

Winning Team

The winning team BosonQ Psi – state-of-the-art Multiphysics simulation (MPS) software that will run on quantum computers, was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 100,000.

Runner Up

The runner-up team, Samatva AI – AI-Powered, an Automated HR & Recruitment Platform for differently-abled, was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 50,000.

The teams were also given AWS credit worth $100,000 from the cloud sponsors AWS. Further, as a testament to the event’s success, six teams (Momskart, Cashcry, BosonQ Psi, Samatva AI, Virasat and Volunthere) were given a further evaluation and investment opportunity by the panel of investors-cum-judges.

What is Prarambh?

Prarambh is the flagship event of Saksham, the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Udaipur. The event brought together entrepreneurs under the banner of Prarambh and helped them refine their ideas and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) by providing five-week mentorship by industry stalwarts.

Saksham, the Entrepreneurship cell of IIM Udaipur, hosted an entrepreneurship-summit, or E-Summit for the second time in IIMU. The theme of the summit was “Tales of Transition.” To highlight the need to master the changing environment, the Keynote speakers of E-Summit 2021 put forth their experiences on making transitions as accelerators instead of barriers. The E-Summit witnessed three esteemed speakers, namely Mythily Ramesh (Co-Founder & CEO NextWealth), Prachi Mohapatra (Marketing Head, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories), Murali Sivaraman (Chairman, Huhtamaki India), who engaged students in a 1 hour 45 minutes session aligned with the summit’s defined theme.

Rajasthani Folk Music Performance at IIM Udaipur

On a serene evening of 22 December IIM Udaipur witnessed it’s first ever-cultural event in collaboration with SPIC-MACAY (Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth). The event observed magical performance from a Maestro Shri Bhutte Khan Manganiar and his troupe. The event started at 4:15 pm and was inaugurated by Director, IIMU – Professor Janat Shah, PGP Chairperson Mr Sasi Nair and Administrative Head Colonel (Retd.) Dinkar Hiteshi.

The event was inaugurated with “Deep Prajwalan” and a short welcome speech by Pritesh, Student. Later on the dais was handed over to the troupe who sat up a spell on the audience by their spell binding performances in Rajasthani Folk Music. The opening Cover to their Performance was a Traditional Rajasthani welcome song “Kesariya Balam” which was followed by Mira Bai Kirtan and then came the performance of night when one of the members of the troupe produced a Jugalbandi – a magical synchronization of various instruments. Later performances on songs of Amir Khusro and Nimbooda were Icing on cake. The evening ended on a “high note” with every one immersed in the Sufi chant of Dum-a-Dum Mast Kalandar.

The event was highly praised by Director stating – “May you guys organize a lot more events like this making IIM Udaipur a unique institution which believes in global growth and at the same time encourages local culture.” Then the evening came with speech of thanks proposed by our Arnab, Student.

Details By : IIMU Media Cell – Article Contribution by: Priyank Sharma –

Photos By: Mujtaba R.G. , Gaurav Bhattacharya