CES 2020 - India Tech Park to Promote Indian Startups Globally

Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, Asha Jadeja Motwani has announced the launch of India Tech Park at CES 2020, the largest and most influential technology event worldwide, which is going to be held in Las Vegas from January 7-10, 2020.

India Tech Park is a platform for Indian startups working towards a sustainable future utilizing technological innovation and creating products that tackle pressing global problems.

The purpose of the first ever India Tech Park is to showcase India’s blooming consumer electronic systems startups globally and provide them exposure to the international startup ecosystem. The startups chosen are driven by responsible young entrepreneurs with sensitivity to climate, water, and sustainable food practices.

Sharing her vision about the India Tech Park, Asha Jadeja Motwani, Founder of

[caption id="attachment_140325" align="alignright" width="300"] Asha Jadeja Motwani, Founder of Motwani Jadeja Foundation[/caption]

Motwani Jadeja Foundation, said, "The startup ecosystem in India is still evolving. The promise shown by Indian startups is incredible. Buoyed by bold, fresh economic policies and reduced red tape, Indian startups can truly lead the world and can contribute to the goal of a $5 Trillion economy by 2025 and even overshoot it to reach a $10 Trillion economy if nurtured and supported well.

The government has taken a lot of initiatives to provide a push to the startup culture in the country but the international exposure to the enterprising startups is still relatively low. Indian policy makers need to be part of the macroeconomic world and talk in global terms to compete in the world economy."

At the time, when connectivity and reach are no longer problems, the government must take a stride forward and push the startups to get the global exposure which would benefit the country as a whole and India Tech park is igniting the spark. She further added.

Few of the startups promoted by India Tech Park in CES 2020 are - Calamus, Hyper Lychee, Wagr, Altifarm, Strom Motors and Stempedia.

About Asha Jadeja Motwani

Asha Jadeja Motwani is a Silicon Valley based Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Change agent for “exponential change” in the world. She is an influencer with a humanitarian vision to uplift the downtrodden masses and tackle global power inequalities.

As a Venture Capitalist, she has invested in over 100 startups, some of which have gone on to become public companies including Kaltix (now Google), Jareva (now Veritas) and Mimosa Systems. She has been a speaker at TiE Global Summit, Stanford University, Ink Talks, World Economic Forums to name a few.

About Motwani Jadeja Foundation (MJF)

Motwani Jadeja Foundation (MJF) is a non-profit organization which has created a network of entrepreneurs in South Asia trained to think and drive exponential change. The areas of work include disruptive entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation, gender parity, and sustainable development. Motwani Jadeja Foundation supports a global network of entrepreneurial thinkers, artists, writers and tech innovators driven by the values of individual freedom and excellence. Most of the projects are designed from the ground up to become self-sustaining social movements fuelled by local communities.

MJF’s main initiatives are education, the maker movement, and women’s rights. Based out of the Bay Area, NYC, and India, the foundation has a strong global footprint across various tech sectors and academia.

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Silicon Valley-based Indian Investor Asha Jadeja Launches Investment Firm in Pakistan

In an interesting piece of news, Palo Alto, California-based Indian Investor Asha Jadeja has started a Pakistan edition of her successful international venture capital firm, Dot Edu Ventures.

Dot Edu Ventures invests seed stage in technology startups often emerging out of universities and research institutions. It is a university based network of friends, spanning computer science, design, engineering faculty, students, and alumni at various US universities.

The well reputed Venture Capital has officially flagged the launch of Dot Edu Ventures (DEV) Global in Pakistan. In fact, the fund has already seeded 5 IT startups in Pakistan and has plans to further expand their investment portfolio in the coming few months.

The mompreneur has invested in DIY Geeks, a startup inculcating a sense of DIY- Do It Yourself- culture in the students of Pakistan and enabling them to take control of their education by physically practising it on their own individual level via their DIY Kits; Daftwarkhwan, a Pakistan-based coworking space building a community of entrepreneurs, startups and professionals driven towards innovating, sharing and growing together. Asha, who has invested in over a 100 startups which were acquired or became public companies (Google, Paypal, Cisco, and Citrix to name a few), is also supporting Maker movement in Pakistan by encouraging innovation, giving grants to innovators and community building among the scientists, engineers, and innovators.

Earlier in the year, Asha also made a guest appearance in Pakistan’s First Business Reality Show, Idea Croron Ka and gave away a generous $100,000 as an equity-free grant to the founder of DIY Geeks.

Dot Edu Ventures is on a lookout to target the emerging economies of the world. Apart from Pakistan, it has invested in a number of startups in other developing countries like India and Kenya.

Though currently in its nascent stage, Pakistan Startup ecosystem is slowly but steadily evolving everyday. The coming up of incubators, accelerators and university research and innovation units in the country has contributed to the quality of business support services available to startups.

Founded in March 2000 by Asha Jadeja and her late husband Rajeev Motwani, Dot Edu began as a small core group of entrepreneurial friends at Stanford and UC Berkeley. It is now an extensive network of computer science and engineering faculty at various universities, including CMU, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U Penn, Princeton, Washington University, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara.

According to the VC firm’s website, the firm prefers disruptive ideas and technologies and looks forward to helping more and more founders build a business from the ground up around such ideas.

This development was first reported in TechJuice.

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