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SmashUP Hyderabad - A TiE & Special Startup Saturday event
Startup Mashup event is co-organized by TiE Hyd Angels, IIIT Hyderabad, ITsAP, and Startup Saturday

A startups' mashup event, bringing together early stage startups, successful entrepreneurs, business/product leaders, incubation centers, angel investors and VCs together onto a common platform with the shared objective to spot, nurture and grow early stage startups.

Edition 1
The first edition was held at Taj Deccan Hyderabad. Highlights from the event:
 * 200 attendees
 * 25+ Vcs/Angels/Incubators. 5 VC firms present (Ojas, IDG, Song, DFJ, Focus). Over 10 Angels from Hyderabad angels. One from Mumbai Angels. 3 incubation centers (IIIT, ISB & ICICI). Several charter members and mentors from TiE. Few successful entrepreneurial leaders like BVR, GD, Satish Madira and few others.
 * 160 people registered (paid or complimentary thru the submitted nomination for a pitch)
 * 17 startups registered for power breakfast (paying Rs.2500 each). Attended by 25 angels/VCs/charter members/mentors. And 2 from each startup.
 * 60 startups paid Rs.500 each to attend (beyond those that registered for breakfast)
 * 20 startups additional registered to attend on-the-spot
 * 44 startups submitted nominations for pitches to angels/acceleration(IIIT). Each got a complimentary pass


 * Of the 44 pitch nominations, 11 were shortlisted to pitch to angels on 7th, and 7 shortlisted to pitch for IIIT Acceleration
 * 4 selected for further discussion with Hyderabad Angels. And 3 selected for further discussions with IIIT Incubation center
 * Angels, VCs, Charter members


 * Major news journalists attended- Including the HIndu, Hindu BL, ET (Hyderabad Chief- Sukumar). Eenadu also carried a nice feature.

Edition 2
The first edition was held at Hotel Avasa, Hyderabad. Highlights from the event:
 * 150 attendees
 * 20 Vcs/Angels/Incubators/mentors. Few successful entrepreneurial leaders like Mr. Shashi Reddy, and Mr. Srini Raju.
 * 160 people registered (paid or complimentary thru the submitted nomination for a pitch)
 * 25 startups registered for power breakfast (paying Rs.2500 each). Attended by 25 angels/VCs/charter members/mentors. And 2 from each startup.
 * 103 startups paid Rs.500 each to attend (beyond those that registered for breakfast)
 * 32 startups additional registered to attend on-the-spot


 * All 25 startups registered for the mentoring program were mentored at the first level on the day. The mentoring process was defined during the session, and it continues in the upcoming months.
 * Major news journalists attended