The Korea Institute for Startups and Entrepreneurship Development (Acting President Choi Yeol-soo) and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Oh Young-joo) announced that they are recruiting startups to participate in the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 exhibition to be held in New Delhi, India from April 3 to 5.
Startup Mahakumbh 2025 is a startup exhibition organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and is in its second year. Last year, Startup Mahakumbh 2024 attracted 48,000 visitors and 1,300 exhibiting companies, including many Indian dignitaries such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This year, Startup Mahakumbh 2025 will be held under the theme of 'BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER' and will be expanded further than last year, with approximately 3,000 companies and 50,000 visitors expected. Exhibitions will be held in 12 fields including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, biotech, healthtech, agriculture, and climate tech.
Startups participating in the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 exhibition support project of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups will be comprehensively supported with ▲exhibition marketing consulting and market education ▲K-Startup exhibition booth ▲local investor/buyer matching and networking ▲corporate support funds (up to 1.5 million won per company).
In this announcement, 8 out of 11 startup companies participating in the exhibition will be publicly recruited, and the eligible participants are startups that have been in business for less than 7 years as of the announcement date. In the case of startups in new industries, support is available for up to 10 years. The remaining 3 companies will be recruited from among startups that have completed the Global Startup Support (Outbound) Program ('22-24) supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and have been judged as 'excellent'.
Participating companies will be selected through a written evaluation (1st week of March) and a presentation evaluation (2nd week of March), and full-scale support programs such as exhibition marketing and local market education will begin in the 3rd week of March.
Acting President Choi Yeol-soo said, “India is a huge market that dreams of becoming a post-China economy. With an economic growth rate of over 7%, it is a strategically attractive market where capital from all over the world flows in.” He added, “Through this India exhibition, we plan to support promising domestic startups to enter the Indian and global markets.”
The application period for participating companies in the Startup Mahakumbh 2025 K-Startup Hall is until February 28th. For more information, please visit the K-Startup website (www.k-startup.go.kr) and check the business announcement.
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