The 5th edition of “Women Power 2019” Pune by Billennium Divas concludes with a “BIGGER APPLAUSE”!

2026-07-26 09:09:48 Business

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The 5th edition of Women Power 2019, organized by Billennium Divas Fund, a day long mega conference celebrate the spirit of Women Entrepreneurship like every year for Women Entrepreneurs / Startups, wannapreneurs concluded on the 14th December 2019 in association with Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune with a thunderous applause and was once again a humongous success. The much awaited event was attended by the ?Who?s ? Who? of the Women Entrepreneurs / Thought Leaders & Startups fraternity and Industry stalwarts. More than 150+ Women Entrepreneurs / Founders along with their Women / Men Co-Founders and Industry Though Leaders participated in Women Power 2019 from across verticals across the country.

The daylong event was chaired by Dr. Apoorva Palkar ? Director-Innovation, Incubation & Linkages, Savitribai Phule Pune University with a power packed address by around 33 high pro?le Women Thought Leaders / Speaker and eminent personalities including Men as well sharing their expertise and insights on though leadership, funding and ?nance, legal & Compliance, design thinking, term sheet valuation and various areas in overcoming challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs & Start-up?s.

The theme for Women Power 2019 was ?Unleash the Power within You!?. Keeping in line with the theme the daylong event focussed and deliberated on key topics such as:

1. Women Entrepreneur and Leadership, Building businesses brick by brick!
2. Becoming Fund Ready to catapult your Startup!
3. Power of Design Thinking in Entrepreneurship!
4. Decoding Term Sheet: What ?not to do? while raising funds from Investors!.
5. Scaling Up ? Challenges & how incubators can help!
6. Opportunities of Funding by Bank of Baroda.
7. Impact presentation - Freudenberg Gala?s Scholarship Program.
8. Women Led / Co-Founded start-ups! ? Investors Perspective decoded!

The Opening address by our Co-Founder & Director - Billennium Divas Fund, Mr. Bhavesh Kothari, threw light on the mission of Billennium Divas Fund and its objective of bringing together more investors and nurturing women startups / entrepreneurs in the country. Empowered women will empower more women is the way forward in its vision of creating fund by the women for the women in the country.

PitchPower session by top 7 Selected Startups to the elite Investor Panel. The battle ground was ready with each of these startups huddled up to showcase their business idea and how it is creating a niche value preposition to the market. Among the top selected startups the jury as usual had the tough task ahead of them to select the winner. And the Top three winners of the PitchPower session were 1. INNOEMBED Technology - Ms. Jhilmil Kochar, 2. Hasthkari - Ms. Alka Singh and 3. Readsnet - Ms. Harshala Chavan. Heartiest congratulations to all the three winners on behalf of Women Power 2019.

Download the Complete Post Event Report ? https://tinyurl.com/rmq7kfy

Pictures of the power packed moments captured during the "WOMEN POWER 2019? - https://tinyurl.com/wonddev

Look forward to seeing you all for Women Power 2020.