Global Entrepreneurship Network

The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) aims to provide an integrated support system to budding entrepreneurs across the country. Initiated by E-Cell, IIT Bombay, the network currently comprises of entrepreneurship promoting organizations of 7 premier academic institutes from across the country including IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIT Bombay, IIT kanpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Madras and NIT Trichy. The network envisages involving similar student and professional organizations from across the world.

GEN is an online platform with the following features:

• Team builder
  • This section shall provide facilities to search for potential core team members with the required area of expertise and/or in the desired industry sector as well as to team up with an individual or team already working on a business idea.
• Mentoring
  • The mentoring panel consisting of successful entrepreneurs, eminent corporate and distinguished faculty members from across the world shall be approachable to seek guidance on different aspects of business development.
• Funding and Incubation
  • A wide network of angel investors, VC firms, funding agencies and business incubators shall provide funding and incubation opportunities to budding entrepreneurs with B-plans that qualify through the initial screening conducted by GEN through a panel of experts.
• Resources
  • This section shall contain a structured compilation of material on different aspects of enterprise building.
• General discussion & Latest News
  • This section shall enable discussion amongst the members on different topics related to entrepreneurship and post articles and views on new ventures and potential business ideas.
• Upcoming Events
  • This section shall contain detailed information on upcoming seminars, workshops, lectures, etc. focused on entrepreneurship.

For more information, visit the genportal.org