IIMA Ventures
Swarup Pandya currently serves as Manager of Seed Investments & Acceleration at IIMA Ventures, focusing on nurturing relationships with corporate partners and investors while supporting early-stage entrepreneurs. Prior experience includes acting as Senior Program Manager at Wadhwani Foundation, where Swarup enabled over 200 startup fundraisers across India and managed structured programs for MVP-stage ventures. As Regional Manager at the same foundation, Swarup developed the Campus Entrepreneurship Ecosystem across multiple universities. Earlier roles at IIMA Ventures involved program management, stakeholder engagement, and startup scouting. Additional experience includes business development at icreate and project assistance at Eduprogress and Research Pvt Ltd. Swarup holds an MBA in Marketing from Ganpat University and a Bachelor's Degree in BBA with a focus on Marketing.
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IIMA Ventures
IIMA Ventures (formerly known as CIIE) is the Innovation Continuum for fearless entrepreneurs, built at IIM Ahmedabad and recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the Department of Science and Technology. Founded in 2002, initially, as an academic centre, IIMA Ventures has since grown and pivoted to address the multiple emergent gaps in India’s innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem. Today, this continuum spreads across incubation, acceleration, seed and growth funding, and research. Over its journey, IIMA Ventures has continued to fill the multiple, ever-evolving gaps in the Indian innovation-driven entrepreneurship space in many novel and pathbreaking ways. Among various initiatives, IIMA Ventures has conceptualised and hosted India’s first accelerator - iAccelerator- in 2009, created India’s first and so far the only cleantech-focused fund called INFUSE Ventures, designed and hosted one of India’s largest accelerator programs - The Power of Ideas and continued to run it in four waves over a decade. Overall, IIMA Ventures has accelerated over 1000 startups, funded over 300 startups, mentored and coached over 5000 startups and inspired more than a million with its publication - Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. IIMA Ventures multiplies its strength by working with like-minded partners like corporates, government departments, ministries and bodies, investors, multilateral agencies and academia. Through these partnerships, IIMA Ventures has created and implemented a range of interventions including accelerator programs, investment instruments and funds, research and advisory projects and long-duration comprehensive programs including various elements of the innovation continuum. It has and continues to work with the central and several state governments in advisory roles on policies and initiatives that are aimed at the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. For queries, write to us at info@ciie.co