iCreate announces esteemed jury panel for grand finale of EVangelise'21, winners to be felicitated at Vibrant Gujarat Startup Summit

Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], January 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): iCreate (International Centre for Technology and Entrepreneurship), India's leading innovation-based start-up incubator, has announced its esteemed jury panel for the grand finale of its maiden EV challenge - EVangelise' 21.
The final evaluation and the announcement of the top 3 winners will be done at the Vibrant Gujarat Start-up Summit - 2022 (VGSS) that is being hosted at iCreate.
EVangelise was a three-stage, international challenge over a period of seven months that was open to start-ups, college students, research institutions, independent innovators and EV enthusiasts with innovations pertaining to 2&3-wheeler electric vehicle sub-components. The idea of creating a grand challenge unique to the EV segment in India stemmed from the estimated increase in EV adoption in the commercial market.
Through this, iCreate is well-positioned to be an integral part in the country's transition to EVs by fostering innovations that are sophisticated, energy-efficient, and sustainable for the Indian market.
The jury lineup includes industry leaders like Tarun Mehta, Co-founder & CEO Ather Energy, Stefan Louis, CEO, Exide Leclanche, Parag Amin, Founder and Chief Mentor, iCreate, Kartikey Hariyani, Founder, TecSo CHARGE+ZONE, Vice Chairperson of Kinetic Engineering Limited, Founder & CEO of Kinetic Green Energy & Power Solutions Limited, Anupam Jalote, CEO, iCreate and other mentors and leaders from the industry. The shortlisted start-ups will make their elevated pitches to the jury members within the stipulated time limit of 5 minutes, followed by Q&A session around the feasibility and market relevance of their innovation.
Commenting on the jury line up and the upcoming Grand finale of EVangelise'21, Anupam Jalote, CEO, iCreate said, "This challenge was envisaged to bring all the key stakeholders in the EV ecosystem - innovators, ecosystem players, government, and academia together to bring about a huge disruption in the current way the market is functioning, and we believe that the impact generated from this initiative will be the catalyst to transform India into a world leader in 2W/3W EV's over a 3-to-5-year time span."
"This year's VGSS is hinged on the axle of 'From Aatmanirbhar Gujarat to Aatmanirbhar Bharat'. This is aligned to iCreate's vision to accomplish consistent and strategic interventions across all stages of a start-up - starting from ideation to market entry, enabling a thriving start-up ecosystem for India, from Gujarat. We couldn't find a better stage to felicitate the winning entrepreneurs than the very stage of VGSS where the world comes together to laud India's disruptors and innovators," he added.
VGSS is a precursor event to the coveted Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, a biennial investors' summit held by the Government of Gujarat in Gujarat, that is solely focused on nurturing India's burgeoning start-up ecosystem. This edition of VGSS is centralised on `Start-ups: Inspiring Disruptive Innovations' and will aim to highlight India and Gujarat's start-up, innovation and entrepreneurial potential.
With this increased focus on Gujarat's start-up ecosystem, iCreate is poised to be the front runner in bringing forth the next generation of entrepreneurs through innovative challenges and programs like EVangelise.
A total of INR 88.5 lakh will be given as assured cash prizes to winners across four innovation categories and three stages. The top 3 winners will get INR 10 lakh, INR 7.5 lakh and INR 5 lakh cash prizes respectively, besides assured incubation support of INR 50 lakh each, market connections and industry mentorship.
iCreate (International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology) is an autonomous centre of excellence of the Government of Gujarat and is India's largest institution for transforming startups based on tech innovation into successful businesses. Located in a state-of-the-art 40-acre campus at Dev Dholera in Ahmedabad, till date it has supported over 454 innovations and 30 patents with a `high-touch, entrepreneur-first' model, connecting them with mentors, markets and money. Embedded systems and IoT are a focus area for iCreate, in domains like electric vehicles, agritech, smart cities, healthtech, industrial automation, renewable energy, among others. It is home to Cisco's largest Innovation Lab in India and has partnerships with leading institutions in the US, Israel and other countries.
To know more, please visit: www.icreate.org.in.
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