IIT Bombay Entrepreneurship Cell to host the 21st E-Summit on December 11 and 12

The Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Bombay is set to host the 21st edition of E-Summit—Asia’s largest business conclave—on December 11 and 12 at the IIT Bombay campus. 

The summit will connect today’s leaders with tomorrow’s innovators through high-impact funding competitions, insightful speaker sessions, powerful networking, and more. 

This year features prominent speakers and guests from the startup and regulatory ecosystem such as Anil Agarwal, Founder of Vedanta Resources; Benedetto Vigna, CEO of Ferrari; Aman Gupta, Co-founder of boAt; Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, Co-founders of Titan Capital, and former Union Minister Smriti Irani, among others. 

The conclave will also host Ten Minute Million—an on-the-spot funding platform where startup founders can pitch to 16 investors in 10 minutes before an audience to compete for Rs 3.5 million. Additionally, the Startup Expo will also give founders the opportunity to showcase and market their products to more than 50,000 attendees. 

The Networking Arena will bring together all startups for one-to-one interactions with more than 200 investors and mentors, offering curated mentorship over roundtables, giving founders a platform to connect, collaborate, and accelerate their company’s journeys. 

The Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Bombay is set to host the 21st edition of E-Summit

I-Hack will return in this edition as the flagship tech competition with a prize money of Rs 6 lakh across development and data science tracks. The Influencer Summit celebrates creators and industry leaders through a welcome keynote, Platform Power Talks, and The Creator’s Playbook panel discussion. Meanwhile, the Global Entrepreneurship Conclave (GEC) will bring together student innovators from 10+ countries through a high-impact bootcamp, cross-cultural collaboration sessions, and immersive learning experiences as part of the 21st E-Summit at IIT Bombay.

The conclave will also include workshops by NVIDIA, Google, Upstox, Microsoft, and Wadhwani Foundation, spanning across a range of topics including Physical AI, investing, AI agents, and entrepreneur-focused tools. 

E-Summit is not limited to just startup founders. The conclave is also inviting students who are looking to test their business instincts and can participate in competitions like IPL Auction, Bid n Build, Fish Tank, Corporate Duel, Capital Quest, and Ace the Case. It is presented by WestBridge Capital and Stripe, in association with Google AdMob and GitLab. 

Krafton is the Official Gaming Partner of the summit with Shivaami as Cloud Partner, Coca Cola as Beverage Partner, Punjab and Sind Bank as Strategic Banking Partner, and ICICI Lombard as Case Study Partner. Perfios will be the Fintech Innovation Partner, Nvidia as Technology Partner, Cipla Health as Case competition partner, GII as International Partner, RD pro as Gadgets Partner, Upstox as Investment Partner, Wadhwani Foundation as Education Partner, and GAHNA as AI innovation Partner.