Digilux Automation Pvt. Ltd., a retrofit home automation solution, was founded by Padamraj K Bagrecha and team in May 2016. With more than a decade of experience as System Integrators and Turnkey solution providers, Bagrecha built his venture in Bangalore reports BWDisrupt.

"It was after extensive research and product testing of almost seven to eight years that the final product was launched in the market," said Bagrecha to BWDisrupt.

What does Digilux do?

Digilux, which manufactures home automation systems, is a 10-member strong team. It is a retrofit home automation solution which can be used to control a home through the touch of a few buttons on your mobile. The system can be integrated with the IoT platform for energy monitoring and can also be further used for feedback and data analysis.

Revenue growth and projection

When questioned about the revenue growth & projection for the start-up, Padamraj told BWDisrupt, "Our revenue has steadily grown over the past few years. In the next three years, our forecast is to generate a revenue five times the current figure.”

Overall market size & their target segment

A huge market segment for them are builders, who with the aid of Digilux will be providing home automation solutions to their home-owners. Their target market is individual home owners and corporates for boardroom solutions.

In BWDisrupt, a Digilux team member was quoted as saying that with the increasing awareness of home automation, they see a surge in the market where 50-60 percent of new homeowners will go ahead with automating their homes. 60-70 percent of people renovating their existing homes can opt for this technology.

Monetisation strategy

The company intends to build a dealer/system integrator model where they tie up with SI's across India to provide the solution to end users. For the international market, they plan to have a distributor network in place, reports BWDisrupt. They already have some experience centres present in Bengaluru, Goa, Mysore, Hassan, Mangalore, Bhubaneswar and many more.

What if your children could experience your wedding? With Teleport360, it’s possible!

Founded by Nanda Kumar, G D Dharaneetharan and P Manobharathi, this start-up uses virtual reality to bring the past to life. At events like weddings, multiple 360 cameras like Kodak SP360 and GoPro Omnis are combined to create a virtual reality cinematic experience.

Get ready to feel like it’s happening all over again!

Meet Neetin Agrawal, the 32-year-old founder of Dronstudy- a Surat-based edutech start-up.

He was once a successful employee at Texas Instruments in Bengaluru, publishing papers and patents. But he was restless to create an ecosystem in the education sector that would be driven by technology. After many sleepless nights, he decided to bring his dream to life.

He quit his job and became an IIT-JEE physics teacher in Kota, to understand the education industry. While teaching, Neetin discovered a market gap. Indian parents were unable to find good teachers for their children. Either the teachers weren’t good enough or if they were good, they were unaffordable.

Neetin quit his job again. This time with a vision to bring quality teachers to the doorstep of students at an affordable cost. Following his dream, he founded Dronstudy and began exploring the audio-visual model of education.

He partnered with 60 teachers to create over 15,000 hours of video tutorials and over one lakh questions and answers. Parents and students could access the tutorials online or order them offline at a very affordable price. The profits would be shared between Dronstudy and the teachers.

Today, Dronstudy has evolved into a thriving ecosystem that is empowering more than four lakh students across 1,500 towns and villages in India and the Middle East. But that is only one part of the big success story.

Dronstudy is helping students living in remote parts of India, who have no access to schools or railway stations. The audio-visual courses are also helping visually impaired students and female students in areas like Chhattisgarh who cannot leave their homes after dusk, for safety reasons.

Dronstudy is proof that when technology and education come together, amazing things can happen.

With hectic work schedules, family responsibilities, and too many gadgets, many people are not able to spend quality time pursuing their interests or hobbies. This led Arunima Girotra and good friend Manika Trehan to start TravelTroovel. They wanted to help people reconnect with their interests, and discover something about themselves which they really love to do. They knew that travel anyway helps one to de-stress.

The duo founded the company on August 20, 2016, and are since operating from Delhi.

Manika told YourStory, "Mostly, people choose the profession which their fellows or friends are pursuing. If they understand their talents, maybe they can do wonders. Spending most of their time on gadgets and social media actually, adds stress to their lives."

TravelTroovel offers interest-based trips, each of which is called a ‘troovel’. Each troovel has an interest-based theme that is inspired by one's hobbies like music, reading, dramatics, art and dance among others. On their trips, people get a chance to explore their interests through a variety of sessions and activities at an offbeat location.

Each of the trips has a mentor who takes up various sessions related to the interest. Simultaneously, the troovellers also get a chance to share their experiences and knowledge with others in the group.

"With each trip, a few freelancers get associated with us as well. We are looking at hiring more people in the due course of time who would be professionals. They could be travel enthusiasts and individuals inclined towards particular interests and hobbies. The major motivation for them would be that they’d get to travel to new locations every month. They get to spend time with their interests and learn something new on every trip. Along with this, they’d be provided with all basic facilities and amenities”, Arunima told YourStory.

Their focus is on the age group of 20 to 45 years as they are more likely to have an inclination towards interest-based trips.

The revenue is generated by charging the person for an all-expense trip. The expenses include charges for travel, accommodation, food and the interest-based sessions. They are anticipating profit before tax of around 35 percent which will, in turn, generate a net profit of around 20 percent.

Joining the club with Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams,is Dr. Shawna Pandya, an Indo-Canadian astronaut, who has been a part of various on ground space missions.

This immensley gifted, 32-year-old Shawna is a talented author, a general physician, and also an international Taekwondo champion, apart from being a space scientist. Speaking with Edmonton Sun, Pandya said, "Since I was a kid, I loved space, I loved the stars. So this kind of is a realisation of a lifelong dream."

Shawna completed her Bachelor of Science (BSc) in neuroscience and did her masters in space sciences from the International Space University in France and MD in medicine from the University of Alberta. She enrolled with the space programme simultaneously.
Whenever she visited Mumbai, to see her family and she has been giving motivational talks at the local hospitals, speaking with doctors and practising students. In an interview with Hindustan Times, she said, "I met students from Lilavatibai Podar High School and the questions they asked me were brilliant, right from zero-gravity experiences to outer space. When I talked to medical students, I realised they have the zeal to venture out but aren’t always aware of the ways in which they can. All we need is to get acquainted with everyday developments in science, be resilient, and always try to achieve something bigger."
On her Facebook post, she said, "I look forward to continuing my work as a physician, speaker and citizen-scientist astronaut and aquanaut, and just as importantly, look forward to continuing my work with outreach and education about these projects."

“It was a very well organised event. The startups were well curated, I really liked the quality of the startups. Happen to meet some bright Founders, it was fun listening to them. Great work put in by Pradeep and team. Let there be more events like this to help the Bangalore startup ecosystem. Looking forward to the future events. Good luck!"
- Visakh Viswambharan (Founder of Appiness; Jury at Rockstart Answers #1)

Rockstart Answers is an international series of local events bringing together a vibrant mixture of startups, entrepreneurs, mentors and investors in a hands-on way. Five promising startups pitch their products in front of the jury and the audience. They highlight top 3 challenges in their respective startups - the jury and audience will provide a direct feedback, support and a handful of great contacts.

The event is being held at GreenBubbles Startup Services, South Bangalore

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The events is being held at IIT Delhi, New Delhi

The Global Economic Summit is the flagship annual event of World Trade Centre Mumbai and All India Association of Industries. After having successfully organized the 5th editions of the Global Economic Summit, the 6th edition (GES 2017) of the summit will deliberate on the theme ‘Women's Empowerment: Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Capacity Building.’ The 6th Edition of the Global Economic Summit on Women Empowerment is being organized with a view to provide an effective platform across sectors for women to voice their concern and issues which need to be dealt at government, bankers and at institutional levels.

We live in a dynamic world which is controlled by technology that has revolutionized and converted the world in to a global village. The Summit will identify platforms through which women can connect across the world, enhance their business opportunities, meet challenges, learn and equip themselves and other women towards empowerment

Zailet Media is organising the biggest Startup Summit of 2016 in the last week of March 2017.

This event will give entrepreneurs an opportunity to network, interact, and share ideas with successful entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world and investors access to the most innovative and brightest minds working on scalable and profitable business ideas in the country.

It is a 3 day event, which includes workshops, mentorship, Hackathon, Startup Pitching Event, among others.

Organised by Wexpress Media Group, Startup Roast Event will be unusual in terms of its content and agenda, not like boring conferences, seminars and workshops.

It will be a talkative event wherein we will have coffee talks, some real dhanda tips, live booth, thoda bohot gyan, quiz shows and yummy food.

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The events is being held in Mumbai.

In a bid to help budding entrepreneurs, Eduwhiz, an education centre, is organising a ‘Startup Founder and Investors Meet’ on Saturday. The third edition of the event will give a chance to young entrepreneurs to get feedback, and follow up meetings, with the jury. In an attempt to bridge the gap among students, entrepreneurs and industry, Eduwhiz which was established in 2006, has conducted 50+ events and helped more than 5000 students and entrepreneurs to reach their goal. The two hour event, being held at WorkWings, Delhi. The meetup kick starts with pitch by each of the shortlisted startups to angel investors & accelerators. Organizers host a short panel discussion with investors, followed by Q&A between investors & audience. It concludes with networking.

STARup is a gathering of over 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, corporate representatives and government officials and influencers from the Indian, Israeli, Asian and European startup ecosystem. STARup, first launched in 2016, saw 700 leaders in the startup community coming together.

It's a networking experience, where we make sure you meet the right people through effective curation. You will meet experienced entrepreneurs who’ve been down the same road you’re about to embark on, pitch to investors over drinks, attend sessions where teams share their best and worst mistakes, be part of workshops where they solve problems with stalwarts of their industry, and share ideas and opinions with fellow entrepreneurs over a game of cards.

The event will be held at VR Bengaluru India