Event Tech Start-Up Ticket 9 Raises $120K in Pre-Seed Funding

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu-based Event Tech Start-up Ticket 9 raises $120K USD pre-seed funding from M2P Co-founder Prabhu Rangarajan, bitsCrunch's Founder & CEO Vijay Pravin Maharajan and CTO Ashok Vardharajan, Ippopay’s Founder & CEO Mohan K, and CTO Jaikumar, Growfin’s Head of AI & ML Sudalai Rajkumar, Wilcosource Co-founder Sundararaman Ramasamy, Deliver.sg Co-founder Krishmani Kannan, Witree’s CTO Selvamuthukumar and other Angels from the US, Singapore, Australia and Bangkok.

Yazhini Shanmugam and Santhos Premraj - Co-founders of Ticket 9

The start-up intends to use the funds raised to enhance its product development and strengthen the technology stack, team, and market expansion to provide a complete and flexible solution that empowers event organizers to create successful events.

“In addition to product development and team expansion, Ticket 9 plans to automate and simplify traditionally time-consuming tasks in the event industry”, says Santhos Premraj –Ticket 9, Co-founder and Chief of Product.

Ticket 9 founded by Yazhini Shanmugam, and Santhos Premraj, is an Event Tech start-up building SaaS products that provides a comprehensive suite of tools to create, manage, promote, and monetize events of any type and size. The platform helps event organizers to streamline event management to drive revenue growth and Event enthusiast to discover more personalized events near by.

The company’s mission is to make it as easy as possible for event organizers to successfully create and manage their events.

“As an investor in Ticket 9, I am thrilled to be part of a game-changing event tech platform that is revolutionizing the way we experience live events. Ticket 9's innovative solutions and seamless user experience are set to reshape the industry and provide unparalleled opportunities for event organizers and attendees alike. I have great confidence in the team's vision and expertise”, says bitsCrunch's Founder and CEO - Vijay Pravin Maharajan.

“Ticket 9 redefines the way people discover, purchase, and enjoy live events. The team's passion for creating memorable event experiences, unwavering dedication, innovative mindset, and profound understanding of the industry sets them apart”, says Growfin’s Head of AI and ML - Sudalai Rajkumar.

Yazhini Shanmugam, Co-founder & CEO of Ticket 9 pointed out that “the event industry has experienced significant growth globally in recent years. People are seeking opportunities to connect, learn, and be entertained, which has led to a rise in events across various industries especially after pandemic.”

About Ticket 9

Ticket 9 is an event tech SaaS platform, for organizers, promoters, and managers to easily create, promote, connect, and manage events of any type and size.

Ticket 9 is built on the idea that anyone anywhere in the world desiring to create an event, sell tickets or engage attendees and empower technology in events should have a powerful tool to do it easily. Everything is fully integrated, seamless, and intuitive. Ticket 9 perfectly empowers any professional event from beginning to end. It is a complete & flexible solution that empowers users to create successful events without having to struggle with a whole bunch of systems.

The platform currently on boarding events from popular cities across Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, and Tamilnadu

Coimbatore Start-up, Solavio Labs, Incubated at AIC Raise, Selected into Canadian Government Accelerator Program

Solavio Team

COIMBATORE, India , Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Solavio labs, a start-up incubated at AIC Raise  [ www.aicraise.com ] incubator, has been selected for acceleration in the 2020 winter cohort by a Canadian accelerator, Energia Ventures. The cohort program started on Sept. 14 , and will culminate on Dec. 9 in a demo day in which all participants will pitch their businesses and display their products. Apart from mentoring, programming, and business support, all cohort participants will receive funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Fund (a Canada -based Venture Capital) to help scale their start-ups.

The main challenge with solar panels is cleaning. Dust and other impurities deposit on the surface of the solar photovoltaic (PV) panels reducing the efficiency by up to 40% and affect the corresponding ROI for Solar Plant owners. Therefore, solar panels need to be cleaned from time to time to minimize efficiency losses. As a result, there is a dire need for an economical and effective autonomous dry-cleaning solution for solar PV panels. And that's where Solavio comes in efficiently.

Solavio™  is a start-up that designs, develops, and manufactures Modular Autonomous Solar Panel Cleaning Bots, Semi-Auto Bots, and Motorised Handheld Brushes for cleaning Solar PV panels.

The retrofit nature of the product makes it compatible with almost any solar panel, mounting structure, type (roof-top or ground mount) or climatic condition and is almost 30%* lighter than most bots in the market.

They provide a dry-cleaning technology that is non-abrasive and UV resistant ensuring at least 99.6% cleaning efficiency(99.5%) without affecting the glass surface. The dry-cleaning technology saves over 200,000 Litres of water per Mega Watt per year. In India , WHO has reported that by negating the use of the water we can uplift the lives of over 8000 individuals per MW of water saved per year.

Due to its light-weight design, Solavio is disrupting the industry by introducing the SHAREABLE robot concept (1 bot for multiple rows) reducing the cost of switching to robotic cleaning by more than 60% as opposed to the competition offering a bot per row ensuring an ROI in under 2.5 years.

Solavio targets the renewable energy sector with a specific focus on Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems. The relevant audience for their product offering includes:

1. Solar plant developers/owners
2. Solar Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) Contractors
3. Solar Operations & Maintenance (O&M) companies

Solavio Labs office is currently located in India , Coimbatore Tamil Nadu, with a subsidiary regional office in Dubai.

"The onboarding of Solavio into the Energia Ventures Accelerator program will see them expand their operations to the North Americas. This also means that Solavio is now the 1st PV-focused Clean Tech Start-up to be incubated under support programs in 3 countries (India , UAE and Canada )," Suraj Mohan , CEO of Solavio Labs said.

Additionally, they are in advance discussions with reliable partners to start operations in South East Asia and Australia.

Solavio seeks to leverage Robotics, AI, Image processing, machine learning, and deep learning to continue building innovative products that go beyond the cleaning of Solar panels such as drone-based cleaning of High rise building surfaces, UV Sanitization drones and bots, Agricultural bots, Security bots, etc.

Solavio's products will be offered under 2 models; Capex and Opex to offer flexibility to the end-user for deploying cleaning bots.

Solavio Labs also won 1st place in the Resilient Smart Infrastructure Category of the Prestigious EDF Pulse India 2020 Start-up Award.

About AIC Raise :

AIC Raise supported by Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog, Govt. of India is India's first Startup Incubation Centre focusing on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals established by Rathinam Group of Institutions. AIC Raise is creating a holistic ecosystem for social start-ups for maximizing profits and benefits to society and the environment.

Website : https://aicraise.com/

Details on Solavio Labs : https://aicraise.com/solavio-labs/