The program is directed towards growth-stage startups/companies with revenues of INR 50M – 500M. WF Venture ScaleUp is a bouquet of five accelerator programs targeted at Deep Tech/IT & ITeS,…
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After a highly intense E Week campaign covering 45 cities, 5000 events and 8,00,000 participants, the 10th Edition of Asia’s biggest entrepreneurship event, E Week 2018 today culminated into a…
The world’s biggest entrepreneurship event, the eighth Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2017) is being held in Hyderabad [Nov 28-30]. Bringing citizens closer to this mega entrepreneurship Summit, NITI Aayog’s Road…
NEW YORK: Five Indian-Americans are among the 400 richest people in the US, according to a Forbes list topped by Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates for the 23rd year in a…
She believes that children who are active and exercise daily are more likely to build stronger bones, stay healthy, have a better outlook on life, have higher self-esteem and sleep…
WF-SDN inked an MoU with Govt. of Maharashtra today to help transform its 400+ ITIs into market-driven high performing institutes over a 3-year period, producing entry level mid-skill workers. The…
The article is a fallout of the MoU signed between WF and State of Rajasthan yesterday, and is aimed at fostering an integrated approach to entrepreneurship, innovation and skill development in…
Cloud, open source, video and mobile technologies emerging as an answer to the global skills gap. With industry needs becoming increasingly dynamic and job competencies globalized, better focus is required…
India’s union cabinet April 20 approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Wadhwani Foundation, and India’s Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and National…
Mentoring turns business for startups – Deccan ChronicleThe challenge facing startups today is finding honest mentors who can guide them from the stage of setting up to getting traction, then…
The state government has decided to start skill development and vocational courses in one school in each of 314 blocks from the coming academic session. The school and mass education…
New Delhi, 01 February, 2016: National Entrepreneurship Network [NEN] today announced the roadmap for E-Week 2016, a popular entrepreneurship event in the country amongst a massive students gathering across the…
ASAP, Department of Higher Education (DHE), Government of Kerala (GOK) and the Wadhwani Foundation announced a strategic partnership which aims at improved employability of students in Kerala through vocational and…
Swati Bondia, groomed at NEN E-Cell and with 2 startups to her credit was recently selected amongst the ‘Top 10 Outstanding Young People of the World- 2015’ and she received this…
Skilling with technology A case study of Wadhwani Foundation partnering with Narayana Health to develop and deploy an innovative learning programme with the help of technology to skill their nursing…
National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the flagship initiative of Wadhwani Foundation was conferred the ‘IWFCI – India Award’ during a gilttering valedictory ceremony at “Global Women Investors, Entrepreneurs & Policy Influencers…
NSQF-Haryana and WF-SDN recently announced the successful culmination of the 2nd successive placement drive, which resulted in over 215 student placements. 18 reputed hiring companies from Automobiles, IT/ ITeS, Retail…
Govt. of Bihar and Wadhwani Foundation announce successful completion of pilot on Community Colleges
Aryabhatta Knowledge University (the umbrella university for all community colleges of Bihar as designated by Education Dept., Govt. of Bihar) and Wadhwani Foundation recently announced the successful one year culmination…
Department of Higher Education (DHE), Department of Human Resource Development (DHRD), Government of Jharkhand (GoJ) and the Wadhwani Foundation recently announced a strategic partnership which aims at providing Skills integrated…
Indian philanthropists changing global research landscape In July this year, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a 10-year $100 million initiative – Breakthrough Listen – to help…
Himachal Pradesh State Government’s Education Department and Wadhwani Foundations announced the successful culmination of the first ever National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) led placement drive in the state. The initiative…
Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) [Ministry of Social justice & Empowerment (MSJE)] and Wadhwani Foundations Skills Development Network Trust recently announced a strategic partnership with a vision…
Biz Women of New Age Ritika Bhargava Physio Revolution, New Zealand Multitasking comes easy for Ritika Bhargava. And this largely has to do with the fact that she was on…
WASHINGTON: The first year of the new BJP government is one of the best years for India in terms of liberalisation and economic reforms, a top US expert has said….
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Wadhwani Foundation, and the Ananta Centre organized an economic conference to assess some of the emerging areas of bilateral economic engagement. The…
The Wadhwani Foundation today launched its National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) aimed at providing a systematic and structured platform for budding entrepreneurs, in the hopes of creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in…
With an aim to promote entrepreneurship education in the country, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the flagship Initiative of Wadhwani Foundation organized the ‘Entrepreneurship Education Conclave’ at India Habitat Centre, New…
As majority of literate youth lacked skills for jobs in various sectors Wadhwani Foundation has taken the initiative to impart job-driven interactive video based courses, said the foundation programme managers…
For accelerating Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to National scale, a strategic partnership between Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Wadhwani Foundation and NSDC was announced in New Delhi, in the…
“The partnership of Wadhwani Foundation (NEN) and Business Innovation Centre (BIC) can make a significant contribution in increasing the number of Indonesian entrepreneurs. Currently, the number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia…
Wadhwani Foundation’s Skill Development Network (SDN), recently announced an MoU with the Association of Health Providers of India (AHPI) and Narayana Health (NH), to network and share the nursing training…
National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the flagship initiative by Wadhwani Foundation, has released a whitepaper for the Department of Science & Technology (DST) to institute standards for the establishment and working…
You’ve been taken to the hospital with a neck injury after being involved in an auto accident. The hospital is overwhelmed and you haven’t been able to see a doctor…
‘Dream to Destination (D2D)’ – A Women Entrepreneur Development Program launched by National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) aims at helping women entrepreneurs achieve their business goals, especially in terms of fundability,…
The students created 2,493 handmade pollution masks in 30 minutes Students of the Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology have created a record for making 2,493 handmade pollution masks…
National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) hosts ‘Youth Entrepreneurship Meet’ for Students, at Chennai
CHENNAI: Aspiring entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship leaders and students from various educational institutions in Chennai came together to share ideas and best practices at the first ‘Youth Entrepreneurship Meet’ on Friday. The…
The Tata First Dot National conference and award ceremony are designed to enable recognition, access to knowledge, mentoring and networking for student entrepreneurs. A series of un-conference sessions, on-spot Tata…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 10: The Tata group has launched the third edition of ‘Tata First Dot powered by NEN,’ a platform for student entrepreneurship. Tata First Dot workshops will be held…
If you want to engage the high-tech industry to help improve job readiness for the nation’s 36 million low-skilled adults, a good place to start is Silicon Valley. That is…
Romesh T Wadhwani, one of the richest Indian Americans globally and who plays an active role in Indo-US dialogue, says the two nations need to communicate better with each other….
New Delhi: As many as 11 people, including members from the influential Nilekani, Bajaj and Godrej families, were honoured by Forbes India for their outstanding contribution towards philanthropy. Rohini Nilekani,…
The idea for Practo Technologies first came to Shashank N.D. when he was still a student at the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. Shashank was trying to get a second…
One of the common measures of a trend is to see how often it gets talked about in public forums and spaces. By that yardstick, entrepreneurship is clearly hot. India…
The How As any twenty-something adult would, by reaching out to folks, on Twitter, over email, on Facebook, LinkedIn and here Quora. It would be even better to get on…
BANGALORE: Budding campus entrepreneurs from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities are giving stiff competition to their counterparts from top metros. They are cultivating start-ups and business ideas, despite unfriendly government policies…
Longtime readers of TriplePundit know we’re big fans of entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s problems. But simply throwing loans around to impoverished people and hoping brilliance percolates is not enough….
INDORE: IIT-Bombay’s e-cell (entrepreneurship cell will be holding a pre-Eureka (annual business plan competition) workshop in Indore on September 25. the event has been named as ‘Illuminate’. The young entrepreneurs…
INDORE: National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) in association with Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research (AITR) organized a two-day ‘Student Leadership Workshop’ at AITR Campus. The session was attended by shortlisted…
In his early 20s, Romesh Wadhwani arrived in the United States with just a few dollars in his pocket. With a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in…
Kochi/Bangalore: Kalamassery in Kochi is known for its chemical and fertilizer factories (or what remains of them), but it is in this incongruous setting that student start-up incubator Startup Village…
WASHINGTON, SEPT 1: US President Barack Obama has announced to appoint eminent Indian American, Romesh Wadhwani, to a key administration post by making him board of trustees of the prestigious…
Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani will inaugurate a new research centre on 25 January 2012 at 1:30pm, in the colonnade of NCBS’s new laboratory building. Tea and snacks will be served…
The three-day international conference “Go Global E” on “Changes and Challenges in Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship” of the Nehru Group of Institutions took off in Coimbatore on Thursday on a…
Raju Reddy grew IT services company Sierra Atlantic from scratch to a 6,000-employeestrong company and sold it to Hitachi Consulting last January. A little over a year later, he boarded…
For Shaizad, a second-year mechanical engineering student at the Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology, setting off on an entrepreneurial journey to commercialise his invention is the ultimate goal….
Here’s a network to reckon with. With 250000 registered members, 539 institutional members supporting 70000 students, 3500 events a year attended by 350000 participants, 1200 trained and certified guides and…
Mayukh Choudhury cut short a lucrative consulting career in Dubai to start a social venture along with two friends. It was a unique idea – Milaap would be a social…