Start ups and MSME

YESSS (Young Entrepreneurs Startups in Soaring Spirits)

This is a platform created for start-ups and motivated individuals to present their innovative products, technologies, ideas at incubation stage, to potential investors, research heads, VCs and industry captains to explore funding, investments and collaborative opportunities. Applications are openly invited from Young Entrepreneurs / Start Ups. After a thorough scrutiny by a committee, the few best are selected and given a mentoring session following which they get an opportunity to present their idea. The audience would usually be represented by Industry Leaders, Domain Experts, Venture Capitalists, Investors and Policy Makers. The presentations are followed by one-to-one meetings between the presenter and target audience. Since its inception in 2008, YESSS has received overwhelming response across the country and hopes to offer more and better to aspiring entrepreneurs in the years to come.

PIA Expo

PIA Expo is a Vendor Development and Technology Show organized by Peenya Industry Association (PIA) to promote the MSME sector and create larger opportunities for the products and technologies in this sector.

Worldwide, the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have been deemed as the engine of economic growth facilitating job creation at the grass roots, balancing economic development and inclusive growth and more importantly fostering and bolstering the spirit of entrepreneurship which is critical for a nations' economy.

Indian MSMEs face enormous challenges in terms of productivity, technology upgrading and establishing a credible foothold in the global arena. MSMEs have to consistently scale up efforts to fuel manufacturing, innovate products / technologies, reconfigure and customize with creativity, assured quality and value addition to enhance the share in domestic and global market.

Realizing the challenges faced by MSMEs and their importance for the advancement of the nation, Government of India has formed a separate Ministry for the speedy development of this essential segment. The PIA Expo helped in promoting and creating larger opportunities for MSME products and technologies through the Vendor Development and Technology Show.