{"id":50362,"date":"2018-10-02T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=50362"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:31:38","slug":"women-led-startups-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/women-led-startups-bootcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Boot Camp for Women-Led Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One out of every six people on Earth lives in India. Its $2.6 trillion economy is already the world\u2019s sixth largest, and it\u2019s expanding at a 7 per cent annual clip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a population that\u2019s on track to surpass China\u2019s by 2022, it\u2019s a market Canadians companies can\u2019t ignore – 1.3 billion people equals 1.3 billion potential customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canada-India Accelerator Program<\/a> is making sure Canada\u2019s startups will be part of its growth. Delivered through Carleton University\u2019s Canada-India Centre of Excellence<\/a>, the program will send 10 women-led startups from across Canada to India for up to three months in early 2019. But first, it welcomed 10 female Indian entrepreneurs for a two-week Transnational Boot Camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since Sept. 24, the Indian entrepreneurs have been sharpening their knowledge of patents, sales, digital marketing and how to grow in the Canadian market through the Transnational Entrepreneurship Boot Camp series of workshops delivered by Carleton\u2019s Technology Innovation Management (TIM)<\/a> faculty and the Global Cybersecurity Resource (GCR)<\/a> staff.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen ventures can access resources and customers from multiple countries, their potential to grow and survive past five years after inception is greater,\u201d says Tony Bailetti, director of the TIM program and faculty prime for the GCR project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThe early experience builds legitimacy and capability to scale up. Participants have an opportunity to establish a network of connections in Ottawa. They gain legitimacy in the eyes of holders of the resource they need to grow \u2013 capital. Boot camp alumni will remain engaged through global projects, partnerships and supportive resources, including an online community and access to the principles on how to grow ventures that operate across borders.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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Women-Led Startups Transforming Agriculture, Biotech and Everything in Between<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The entrepreneurs participating in the first leg of the exchange \u2013 running until Oct. 5 – are launching businesses in technologies that are transforming everything from agriculture to biotech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shivi Kapil\u2019s Empathy Design is developing a wearable monitoring pregnancy patch, Shraddha Bagwe\u2019s Shrambhoomi Innovations is developing a mobile soil testing kit, Shilpa Malik\u2019s Bioscan Research is developing medical devices for the early detection of disease, Aarti Shastri\u2019s DARS Biotoilet is developing a self-sustained eco-friendly toilet, Shefali Vinod Ramteke\u2019s PS-1925 is developing drones for use in “smart farming”, Lalita Thakur\u2019s Queenbelt is a rape detection-prevention device capable of making automated distress calls, Payal Jawalkar\u2019s Agrowave is transforming the Indian agriculture supply chain using research, analytics and technology, Keerthana Ponnarasu’s Think2Exist exploits opportunities in aeroponics, and Sushmitha Surendra Kumar is developing a solar electric stove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe world is changing rapidly, and the pace of change has never been faster,\u201d said Ontario\u2019s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Merrilee Fullerton, who met with the visiting entrepreneurs at Lead to Win\u2019s Bayview Yards<\/a> location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must continue to keep up by diversifying as much as possible as quickly as possible. Technology entrepreneurs are essential to creating new businesses and new jobs \u2013 and the Canada-India Accelerator Program is an example of how collaboration can work so well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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