Conquest, BITS Pilani’s Annual International Start-up conclave gears up for Grand-Finale

Conquest, BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus) is in its decadal edition gears up for the grand-finale. With previous edition having INR 2 Lakhs in cash prize and INR 1 Crore worth of incubation opportunities up for grabs. With its new edition in 2013 it has doubled both the numbers.

From thousands of entries the list was narrowed down to 50. These start-ups evolved over a period of four months. They underwent rigorous mentoring cum networking sessions at all major cities of India catering to their specific needs. The finalists list include the following who were judged on the factors of market and customer, fitness in the market, traction, model, business model, launch plans and most essentially the team. We exclusively present you the ones who made it to top 10:

m.Paani: mPaani is a social enterprise focussed on using mobile technology as a platform to   provide key services like water, food, shelter, education to the underprivileged

: BuyingIQ.com is an online shopping advisor, dedicated to help you find the best electronics for you at today"s lowest price

HuntShire: Huntishire is a platform for companies to gamify their recruitment, attract and retain top talent.

Freshmentors: Freshmentors gets you college advice from high achieving college students at top universities

LinkSmart: Providing innovative, safe and low cost authentication and verification solutions to the business community in its quest to ensure the integrity of its physical goods.

Mobile Harvest: Mobile Harvest aims at bringing rural development through a mobile application

TradersCockpit.com: TradersCockpit is India"s leading Financial portal that provides affordable research and analysis tools in dealing with financial markets

InCights Mobile Solutions: InCights is the developer of Voice biometric engine that has the ability to link wide variety of entities based on sound technology principles of Linked Data and Signal processing

MyPref: MyPref is a mobile app that helps you search and locate specific food items from the best restaurants in the location around you

iTraveller: iTraveller is an ERP platform for travel agents who are managing destinations

The above ten will share the FICCI auditorium, New Delhi on September 15th, along with distinguished VCs , Entrepreneurs and world-class potential investors like Amit Ranjan (Co-founder, Slideshare), Ankur Warikoo (CEO, Groupon India), Dev Khare (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Bharati Jacob (SeedFund) and many more. Conquest 2013 provides a complete package to all its finalists, so that all their needs like cloud computing requirements, analytics, customer support, CRM, payment gateways etc. are taken care of by Conquest partners.

P.S.- Conquest 2013 attendees get an exclusive discount for attending TechSparks 2013 - Grand Finale to be held in Bangalore on Oct 5, please mail to alok[at]yourstory[dot]in for the exclusive discount code.