Strengthening Startup Culture with dedicated Startup Portal & Entrepreneur Development Centre Co-working Space
Dedicated Startup portal & Co-working space for Young Entrepreneurs of City
Young entrepreneurs & startups can access www.chdstartup.in portal which aims to provide new and emerging IT startups an environment that would support their startup phase and increase their likelihood of success. This dedicated portal will serve as single window system for young entrepreneur and IT based startups by providing the value added services required to support success of startups and to strengthen the startup culture.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE Startup portal
• The Incubation and Co-working Startup Scheme for early stage Young Entrepreneurs/ Startups affordable co-working space plans.
• Mentoring & Advisory
• Access to Venture Capitalists
• Technical & Managerial support
• Platform for newtorking
• Grievance
• Helpline
To give further impetus to the Startup initiative, and encourage entrepreneurship, state-of-the art Co-Working space called ECoS(Entrepreneur Development Centre Co-working Space) created by SPIC under the aegis of Department of Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration is fully operational now in SPIC Incubation Centre , Chandigarh Technology Park .
Young entrepreneurs & startupneurs can take state of the art office space & book seat(s) in co-working area located in the heart of IT hub through startup portal www.chdstartup.in which is live now and can access to the workplace of international standards equipped with plush hot seats, breakout area, Ideation rooms, Video Conferencing room brain storming room and in-house pantry facility.
Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC) has been spearheading the startup movement in Chandigarh since its inception(2001) and has lot of experience in incubating & nurturing startups and helping them in scaling up their business with expert Mentoring and Advisory, HR support, Technical and Managerial Support and providing platform for networking and marketing their products.
Co-working called ECoS is now up and running on 3rd Floor of EDC Building, Plot No 20, Chandigarh Technology Park, Kishangarh which has 68 hot seats out of which 20 hot seats have already been booked& taken.
Categories of Seats available in co-working area:
Hot seat:This is a shared space where individuals or teams share their space with other individuals or teams.
Multiple seats: In a case of team of young entrepreneurs there is an option of booking multiple seats but not more than 8 seats can be booked.
Pay as you go: There is no fixed subscription in this model. Individuals can book space or seat for short duration from 15 days to one month and use it by paying the charges daily.
Pods corners: co-working is also equipped with super comfortable plush pods with chargeable points for single person.
Young entrepreneur can easily book their seats by visiting www.spicindia.com/Ecos/ to create their account on portal thereafter can login and enter their personal details, picture along with brief information about their venture and then submit the booking form. Once the request is approved they can pay the hot seat(s) charges online through debit/credit card or internet banking.
The idea of co-working space was conceived to create platform for technology based startups to identify & provide value added services required to support startup and strengthen startup culture in city and also to encourage and inspire youth to actively consider entrepreneurship as their career choice. Co-working space will cater to students and young entrepreneurs who have a workable idea which needs hatching and also for startups who doesn’t have much capital to invest in private office. Co-working space in EDC building is much more than standard office with no cubicles rather convenient hot desks sitting where one can work with ease. It will be a conducive place for heads- down productivity with bookable meeting rooms and discussion rooms. This space have glass-walled sleek discussion rooms, conference room, separate video conference room and innovative lounge corners which offer plenty of space for collaboration when teams get together and. Some of the salient features of ECoS are below:
1. First state of the art co- working area with 68 plus seats developed by state govt (Chandigarh Administration)in this region.
2. Plug n play facility with integrated breakout area to make work place more appealing & productive.
3. It has ideation rooms, discussion rooms and one exclusive Video conferencing room and has in -house pantry facility.
4. Co-working space has dedicated high speed lease line for subscribers of co-working area.
5. Subscribers of ECoS will get support in Mentoring and Advisory, registering/creating company/firm, in dealing statutory liabilities, HR support, Technical and Managerial Support, Intellectual Property Rights support, providing platform for marketing their product at International level, funding from banks, financial support from angel network/venture capitalist.
6. Leasing of hot seat or pods in co-working is very flexible, one can book seat for minimum 15 days and maximum up to 24 months subject to evaluation. Subscriber of co-working will also get access to the ideation rooms, brain storming room, video conferencing room & pantry service during their span of stay.
