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Video: May Samali , Tumml- a startup hub for urban innovation

7/6/2017

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We spoke with May Samali of Tumml empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml's goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars and Revolution Foods.

May Samali : May serves as Director of Tumml, running the accelerator program and working closely with the organization’s portfolio companies. Prior to Tumml, she worked as a strategy consultant at Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique venture firm, and as an attorney at Herbert Smith Freehills. Mayearned her MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and her economics and law degrees from the University of Sydney. She is a John Monash Scholar and a delegate at the Australian American Young Leadership Dialogue. May’s work in urban innovation has been featured in a wide range of outlets, including TechCrunch, SSIR, and Philanthropy News Digest.
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Knowledge Series: 7th Jan - Workshop:Navigating India's Governance Landscape as an Urban/ Civic Entrepreneur

7/6/2017

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The first session as part of Urban Venture Labs Knowledge Series  focused on government as a stakeholder and how entrepreneurs can engage them.
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Speakers included
1)Viraj Tyagi ,CEO, eGov Foundation;
2)Rajarshi Sahai, Country Manager at TRAFI.com & 
3)Raj Cherubal, Director at Chennai City Connect
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​Below are the lectures:

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Lecture by visionary urbanist Mr. George Ferguson

7/6/2017

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​We hosted Lectures & interactive meetings with our mentor  Mr. George Ferguson, Former Mayor of Bristol in Mumbai.

Mr. Ferguson believes that better decision-making happens at city level and that the success of urban areas can help improve the national economy. The discussions  focused on how livable cities are a crucial economic development strategy.
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Some of the entrepreneurs from the Urban  Venture Lab participated in the events.
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Urban Venture Challenge I, Oct 2016

7/4/2017

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"Accelerating social innovation products and services that will improve our cities"

Urban Venture Labs  hosted the Urban Venture Challenge  with  a select group of entrepreneurs working on city transformation start-ups.Urban Venture Labs was instituted with the aim to support innovation and entrepreneurship  aimed at city transformation.  As part of kick starting this agenda, we hosted  the Urban Venture Challenge (UVC) . We hosted  an  online contest  where we got 115+ applications out of which  12 venture teams were selected to participate in a startup bootcamp with a workshop on applying design thinking/ business model canvas.
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UVC was hosted by  Urban Venture Labs &  IIM- RERI, Bangalore and supported by The Urban Vision, Stanford CDDRL  , Asia Initiatives( NYC) .Asia Initiatives has committed 5000 USD to 25,000 USD in grants to the ventures in our challenge which apply the SoCCs Model.  IIM's NSRCEL is offering LaunchPad Program  to some of the teams. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation & Mumbai Angels were on the Jury

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The 12 Social Venture Teams presented their ideas  to  a eminent Jury.
Jurors included Dr. Jagan Shah, NIUA ; Abhishek Bhatewara, Mumbai Angels  ; Padmanabhan,  Asia Initiatives ; Santhosh Ramdoss , Michael Susan Dell Foundation ;Naresh Narasimhan , Founder , NUMA ;Prof.Suresh Bhagavatula, IIM B ; Ravichandar Venkataraman, Civic Evangelist & Philanthropist ; Social Entrepreneur Ashwin Mahesh.
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​Ravichandar Venkataraman, Civic Evangelist moderated the discussion with key ecosystem partners on how to enable city transformation. (L-R) Padmanabhan, Asia Initiatives; Abhishek Bhatewara, Mumbai Angels; Dr. Jagan Shah, Director, NIUA; Prof. Gopal Naik, , IIMB; Steven Babitch, Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House .

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 Reap Benefit solving local environmental and civic problems won the first place
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PAQS which is a air quality monitor ; inhalor and quality of air solutions won the second place.
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​Smartterra  which is a urban data platform  won the third place.
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