Seed Capital Support – EDII Ahmedabad
Since the year 2009-10, EDII has created a special pool of resources in the name, ‘Students’ Resource Fund’ for providing Seed Capital support to needy students from financially and socially challenged background of PGDM-Business Entrepreneurship Programme on Merit-cum-Need basis.
EDII has broadened this fellowship / grant support to provide small financial assistance to the students of PGDM-Business Entrepreneurship for enabling them initiating/starting own ventures. Such support will be given to students having viable and feasible business ideas, and as recommended by the fellowship committee (consisting of faculty, bankers and other experts).
A Bankable Detailed Project Report (DPR) needs to be prepared by the participants with regard to their ventures after conducting a thorough market research and secondary data based research along with IT based applications. At the conclusion of the field study, students delivers a written business plan for a new venture or expansion of current business, which will include analysis of the market and industry in which the business will compete, a viable financial and organizational structure, risk assessment, a marketing strategy and as appropriate, explanation of an underlying technology, manufacturing process and service delivery system. The final project report is prepared in a competitive format and is assessed by panel of experts comprising of faculty, industry experts and bankers.
Students working on their DPRs can register their names for seed capital support once the information is announced from PGP office.
The steps required to be followed are:
• Student should be ready with business project and basic business snapshot.
• The submitted business projects will be analysed by panel of faculty members and then it will be recommended for seed capital support
• EDII will provide counselling, support and services related to market survey, creating prototype, financial forecasting, interaction with bankers etc.
Primary sector focuses are software/IT, web/e-commerce, service sector, agribusiness, manufacturing/textile, food processing, renewable/clean-tech energy, chemical/fertilizer, power/electricity, electrical/electronic etc.