Pm Modi Has Turned The Spirit Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship Into A Festival In India, Say Young And Budding Entrepreneurs
On the occasion of National Startup Day, Chandigarh University hosted SANDBOX 2025, a flagship event to celebrate the entrepreneurial ecosystem of North India and showcase the groundbreaking innovations, foster meaningful collaborations among startups, investors, industry leaders as well as aspiring entrepreneurs, with Shark Tank India judge and Shaadi.com F ounder, Anupam Mittal , as Chief Guest to mentor budding entrepreneurs.
Hosted by Chandigarh University Technology Business Incubator CU-TBI, with the theme, Empowering Visionaries, Redefining Tomorrow , SANDBOX 2025 received an overwhelming response with over 1000 registrations by start-ups for the event. Of the 250 viable startups shortlisted from the total registrations from 45 cities all across the country, including cities like Kolkata , Delhi , Mumbai , Bengaluru, Hyderabad , 50 selected startups, including 17 startups based on Artificial Intelligence, were exhibited during the event. Out of these 50 startups covering a range of fields including business, content, health care and agriculture, the top 10 startups including Capeels, Innow8, Akarshana, Carewell 360, Ashya Pro 6, Medoc, Weaving Dreams, DCS Pro, Clienthals and Resolex, received the opportunity to pitch before Shark Tank India judge and Shaadi.com Founder, Anupam Mittal . On this occasion, young entrepreneurs said that PM Modi has turned spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship into a festival in India by declaring January 16 as National Startup Day to honour the creativity, resilience and determination of countrys innovators and entrepreneurs.
Prominent among those who attended, the event included Satnam Singh Sandhu , Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha and Chandigarh University Chancellor , Sanjiv Sethi , MD, Gilard Electronics Pvt, Ayush Bagga , T-HUB Head, Government Relations, Ankit Saxena , IIT Delhi, Director, DS Centre of Entrepreneurship, Narender Verma , CII Executive Manager, Founder and Chief AI Officer, VK Sharma, CDAC Director, Shailendra Tyagi , STPI Director at Software Technology Parks of India STPI, Ministry of Electronics IT, Government of India , Munish Jauhar , Nasscom, Founder and CEO of GrayCell Technologies.
On the occasion, Shark Tank India judge and Shaadi.com Founder, Anupam Mittal , said that in the past decade, there is a manifold increase in the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in India . The biggest reason for this is our government which has created many new opportunities to encourage our youth. An entrepreneur does not wait for an opportunity he rather creates an opportunity on his own. I am sure that the in-born entrepreneurship skills in Indians will make them the top entrepreneurs of the world in upcoming 10 years, he added.
One of the interesting aspects of our culture and civilization is that we have always been entrepreneurs. We have created many things in our country and given them to the world. So the entrepreneurship is there in us Indians by birth. We just have to think about it, understand it and recognize it. This is the reason why many of our entrepreneurs are the best at the world level. I just want to tell the youth that you should not just think about becoming an entrepreneur, you should rather aim to become the best entrepreneur in the world, Mittal added.