IIM Nagpur inaugurated “Entrepreneurial Finance” – a FDP jointly delivered by IIM Nagpur and AICTE Training & Learning Academy (ATAL)

IIM Nagpur inaugurated “Entrepreneurial Finance” – a FDP jointly delivered by IIM Nagpur and AICTE Training & Learning Academy (ATAL)
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IIM Nagpur inaugurated “Entrepreneurial Finance” – a FDP jointly delivered by IIM Nagpur and AICTE Training & Learning Academy (ATAL)Feb 21, 2022

IIM Nagpur in collaboration with AICTE inaugurated a five-days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Entrepreneurial Finance” from 21st to 25th February 2022.

The inauguration address was given by the chief guest – Dr. Chintan Vaishnav, Mission Director, ATAL Innovation Mission (AIM). Prof. Bhimaraya Metri, Director, IIM Nagpur addressed the participants and emphasized on the importance of entrepreneurial finance in the satrtup ecosystem in India. Prof. Atul Pathak, Chairperson-EEP briefed the participants about the executive education programme at IIM Nagpur, Prof. Monika Dhochak, Programme directors briefed about the objectives and highlights of the programme.

The startup ecosystem has tremendously grown in the last few years, and when we talk about entrepreneurial skills or entrepreneur minset, “Financial knowledge” becomes one of the major concerns for these startups. This AICTE ATAL FDP on “Entrepreneurial Finance” is primarily designed to adress this issue, where we can train and develop professionals through which they can acquiant themselves with all stages of the venture’s life cycle from ideation to exit and create the financial intelligence among the aspiring entrepreneurs. This FDP also delves into issues such as deal structures, financial management, valuation, and role of venture capital or private equity funds in the life cycle of a new venture.

The main objective of this FDP is to foster knowledge and help them to make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. For this FDP, we have great mix of speakers from industry as well as academia to discuss the issues faced by the young entrepreneurs in the financial landscape. To start with, we have serial entrepreneur, investor and mentor Mr. Shashikant Chaudary, Mr. Arpit Agarwal, investment partner of blume ventures, Mr. Harkesh Mittal from DST, Mr. Vikrant Potnis, IAVC, Mr. Amitabh Vyas, CEO-unlimited India, Prof. Metri, IIM Nagpur director, and a very renowned group of faculty members.

We have 200 participants from across India who have registered for this FDP with an average experience of 8.5 years. We have participants from Academic institutes, industry, founders, Mentors and Coaches to the several entrepreneurs.