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Tapaswi Group Launches Billennium Angels Diva Fund, A Women Centric Organisation

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Mumbai based Tapaswi Group Ventures, announced the launch of the Billennium Divas Angel Fund, in collaboration with Navi Mumbai Angel Network (NAMAN.) Dedicated to women entrepreneurs and women centric startups, this Fund was soft launched by Bollywood actress, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, at the FICCI, “Road To GES.”

The Billennium Divas Angel Fund aims at encouraging and motivating women in all areas of work, primarily focusing on those who have founded their own startups. As a part of the launch, the Tapwasi Group announced their upcoming Startups Investors Summit, 2017.

As a part of the Summit, the group works at bringing together over 100 speakers, 500 + investors and up to 1000 startups from across the Globe. One of the main aims of the Summit is to increase the number of startup investors. Also, through the Summit, the Group works at increasing the startup culture in the country.

So far, the Indian startups were able to close more than 700 deals, with about 53% of the revenue going into two major ecommerce platforms, Flipkart and Amazon. Even though the numbers are promising, there are still over 60,000 startups which do not have access to a platform.

Tapaswi Group realized this gap and decided if ever, the time to make a change was now. Through the Summit, the group plans on expanding their reach to the 48% of women who do not have access to the facilities women from the cities do.

With the Billennium Divas Angel Fund, Tapaswi Group and Navi Mumbai Angel Network are looking to not only promote female entrepreneurship in Maharashtra but are ultimately aiming to uplift women in urban as well as rural areas across the State.

Commenting on the development, Tapaswi Patel, Chairman and MD of Tapaswi Group Ventures, said, “A staggering 100 million businesses are launched annually, according to figures from GEM Global Report (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) – approximately 3 businesses every second or 11000 per hour. And of those “employer businesses”, about 60% are bootstrapped or funded by the founder; 30% are funded by friends and family and 10% are funded by angels. With regard to this 10%, in the US alone, there are more than 320K angels, while India has just over 3000 active angels.

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