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Registration

Welcome Address

Global Startup Battles

Brand Launch 1

Brand Launch 2

One Customer, Most of the Pipeline: Is Concentrated Revenue Investable?

An investor can see strong sales while a single customer controls renewals, product requirements or market access. The panel will separate booked revenue from a resilient business, test contract and pipeline evidence, and ask when an MSME supplier's exposure to one anchor buyer changes the investment case. Attendees leave with a concentration-risk decision checklist, not a generic funding forecast.

Minority Capital in a Promoter Business: Who Checks Related-Party Decisions?

Mumbai founders and family-owned companies often seek capital without surrendering operating control. Investors will discuss how to map group-company dealings, identify which decisions need independent review, and set reporting and consent rules without paralysing the business. The audience gets a practical way to distinguish ordinary group support from a transaction that changes the minority investor's economics; private deal rights remain a discussion, not an asserted fact.

Investing in a Franchise Operator: Which Rights Carry the Valuation?

A chain can show profitable units while relying on another company for brand, territory and renewal rights. Investors will separate unit performance from the franchise agreement, challenge the expansion model, and decide what happens if terms change. Mumbai's retail and food-service investors can leave with a rights-and-unit checklist that covers royalty sensitivity, territory concentration and renewal exposure, without presuming any company's private terms.

Lunch Break and Networking

Brand Launch 3

Brand Launch 4

The Retail Shelf Test: Which Online Product Earns Offline Space?

A digital bestseller can fail when shoppers cannot search for it, packaging cannot explain it, or a store's working capital is tied up in the wrong variant. D2C founders and retailers will decide which SKUs deserve an offline pilot, what proof to gather by neighbourhood and store type, and when to stop. Attendees leave with criteria for shelf productivity, replenishment and customer discovery instead of a generic omnichannel growth story.

One AI Provider Fails: Can the Product Switch Models Safely?

Teams can swap an API and still break accuracy, cost, language handling or data rules. Applied AI builders will decide which functions need a fallback, what must be tested before routing traffic, and who can stop a bad substitution. A Mumbai enterprise buyer and startup can use the resulting acceptance criteria during procurement. The discussion distinguishes provider resilience from a simple list of model features.

The Stock Goes to the Wrong Store: Should AI Decide Replenishment?

Demand forecasts can suggest where stock belongs, but D2C brands pay for returns, stockouts and stale inventory when the wrong recommendation is followed. Retail operators and AI teams will debate pilot data quality, override rules and a measurable store-level baseline. The discussion will explicitly split 17½ minutes on retail inventory economics and 17½ minutes on forecast evaluation and human checks, so neither side becomes a decorative label.

When the Founder Stops Posting: Who Keeps the Brand Voice?

A founder's audience can become an editorial bottleneck if no one else can source facts, approve claims or answer questions. Founders will design a small content system with named subject experts, review rights and a handover plan. The panel focuses on continuity and accuracy of the company's voice, not platform reach or conversion attribution. The audience should leave with a workable owner-and-approval map.

Awards

Open Networking