India's largest CrowdPitching event from Catapooolt to held on 27 November in DLF CyberHub

Catapooolt , India's unique industry backed and crowd-funding platform is bringing India's largest CrowdPitching event to NCR which will be held on 27th November in DLF CyberHub. CrowdPitching is an event where startups get a chance to receive funding live from the present audience which makes the event very exciting and is very popular various startup ecosystems. 

Catapooolt CrowdPitch Event

Catapooolt aims to bridge the gap between startups and those who wish to be part of the change but are not necessarily angel investors. This is the second such event from Catapooolt and first in Gurgaon. The event is expected to host an audience of around 500 individuals comprising of startup teams and individuals who want to participate and back these startups. There are two types of registrations which can be made on http://www.catapooolt.com/crowdpitch/ . 

10 Shortlisted teams will get to pitch to participating audience of idea backers and select investors in a span of 2 hours with main focus to make people back and engage with ideas. There will be 3 judges to rate the pitches and provide feedback. Each backer attending the event will get a crowdfunding voucher of INR 500/- which can be used for funding a pitch , to fund more one have to buy more Catapooolt vouchers on the spot. Catapooolt will match the funds raised during the event. Startups present during the event will get 3 more months to continue raising funds on Catapooolt.

Announcing the event, Satish Kataria – Managing Director, Catapooolt, said, “India, despite all stated excitement around start-ups, just has about odd 300 angel investors today. This number is far too small to really encourage entrepreneurship – and globally, crowdfunding has proven that how if communities get active – countries can really progress on their level of innovation. So, the Catapooolt Crowdpitch is an attempt by us to create large-scale engagement opportunities for communities to now come forward and hear start-up pitches and be a part of them. We already have support of leading start-up ecosystem players towards this event – and are looking to an active participation by Delhi NCR citizens in pursuit of supporting innovation.” 

Catapooolt organized the first edition of CrowdPitch at Kolkata last month – and this witnessed more than 100 people coming together on a cruise, including 15 leading investors, and raising almost INR 50K for pitching ideas in span of 2 hours.

Project ideas that can garner funding through Catapooolt include innovation, technology, consumer, entertainment, validating a new start-up’s offering, developing and pre-selling a product, designing a social innovation or simply anything that can change the world for the better.

Catapooolt CrowdPitch is powered by premier IT industry body NASSCOM, DLF Cyber Hub and online payment company PayUMoney. As many as 8 startups have already confirmed their pitch presentations. Besides getting an opportunity to pitch at the event, these start-ups will also have two months on Catapooolt to raise their complete fund requirement.