Several investors are willing to invest into promising and potential start-ups, but rarely find right start-up for investment. Besides, many people wish to get into start-up investment mainstream, but hardly have options. Similarly, number of start-ups are looking for good people to work with from various backgrounds, but it’s difficult to get them at a one single platform. On the other hand, many individuals have the urge to work for the promising start-ups and willing to share their knowledge to become a co-founder. However, fails to reach the right company because of the non-availability of a reliable source to find the right match.

In addition, considering the huge initial cost constraint, millions of manufacturers have been looking to share their capacities and many start-ups are looking for manufacturing capacities to outsource their production work.

These are the primary bottlenecks every business is facing these days and very few business consulting firms are essentially addressing these issues. Being a startup consultant serving hundreds of clients, Yogesh used to face and “feel” many of the above challenges while serving his clients. Therefore, intending to simplify the connectivity among different stakeholders in the start-up ecosystem on a global scale, Yogesh, Paresh, Sumit, and Nikhil started Entie, a business networking platform that is meant to find the right start-up, investor, co-founder, and manufacturing companies.

Yogesh tells RokhThokMat, “We are visioning, digital transformation of startup ecosystem with technology as business dating or business networking platform. If you believe that businesses are meant for people, run by people, and networking could create immense possibilities for the economy, then this is for you.”

How Entie works:

It is quite simple, a step by step registration process help you create profile; once you complete, on dashboard you will get to see your matches. On one click, you can connect with your matches and start engaging.

For example,

If you are a startup, looking for cofounder:

You can select – I am startup – Looking for cofounder

You can put information from dropdown: Start-up stage, preferred industry, preferred experience, joining expectation timeline, preferred location, offerings of being cofounder

If you are startup: looking for investor to invest:

You can select – I am startup – Looking for investor to invest.

You can put information from dropdown: Required amount, startup stage, industry, sales and can attach pitch deck.

If you are startup: Looking for investor to buy your startup:

You can select – I am startup – Looking for investor to buy

You can put information from dropdown: Required amount, startup stage, industry, sales and can attach pitch deck.

If you are Investor: Looking for startup to invest:

You can select – I am Investor – Looking for startup to invest

You can put information from dropdown: Investment amount, preferred startup stage, preferred industry, preferred sales and can attach investment approach

If you are an individual wish to be a cofounder and looking for startups:

You can select – I want to be cofounder

You can put information from dropdown: Preferred startup stage, preferred industry, preferred experience, joining expectation timeline, preferred location, offerings of being cofounder

If you are into a manufacturing business with production facility and wish to get more job work:

You can select – I am a manufacturing business – having certain capacity

You can put information from dropdown: Industry, products, capacity, location

If you are looking to outsource product manufacturing:

You can select – I am manufacturing business – looking for capacity

You can put information from dropdown: Industry, products, capacity, location

Platform based on your requirement and algorithm, will show you curated matches, you can simply connect and take it forward.

Besides connecting, Entie help people get knowledge from industry experts like how to find right investor, how to present to the investor, what things you need to understand before hiring cofounder and so on, this will help user making strategic connect.

Current Capacity & Office Address:

Entie has been founded in October 2019, and has headquartered at Wakad, Pune, India. As Entie has been just launched and being a startup, all the operations are handled by cofounders, but soon hiring 20 people for technology, marketing, sales and business development. Apart from this, associates for marketing and technology are helping Entie to penetrate in the market.

Growth and Expansion

Entie wish to be a market leader in professional networking in phased out manner with initially targeting India, followed by the global market. While the platform remains free for its users for the first few months, it has planned to monetise through subscription fees and paid VAS.

The company has been bootstrapped to date. Moving forward, Entie plans to bring on-board strategic investors to scale up the platform by strengthening its technological capabilities and geographic reach.

Future features like, in app email sending, internet-based voice call, video call could make Entie more useful and productive. Entie also plans to come up with an innovative startup Ecommerce application on the same platform, wherein businesses can put up their shop and can offer products at the cheapest price. These businesses will be having millions of users as their targeted customers on the platform. 

“We are confident that this platform will play a significant role in connecting business ecosystems across the globe and represent India at an international level”, says Nikhil Thite- Cofounder and CMO at Entie.

Founding Team:

Yogesh Thite: Founder & CEO: Product, Funds, Team, Culture, Strategy, Growth and Vision, LinkedIn

A decade of experiences has helped us pivot the model for Entie. Yogesh is a seasoned start-up & business management consultant. Young, energetic and result oriented person. An Entrepreneur by heart, Product Innovator by skills and Business Consultant by choice. Prior have worked in Operations, Engineering, Automation, Sales, Marketing, and Consultation at mid to large size organizations. 

Paresh Patil: Co-founder & COO: Admin, Process, HR, Accounts & Finance, LinkedIn

Paresh has 9 years of experience into finance management, industrial goods manufacturing and Marketing and real estates. He has secured PGP in Business Management-Marketing and MBA in Human Resources. 

“As we start to emerge from the paralysis of corona and look ahead, there are sure to be more questions than answers. The best we can do is imagine our new reality and accept that the startup industry is riper than ever, every idea that was on the fence, has now had the time to shape up into a promising business model. The businesses are looking for all kinds of assistance and with Entie, they are going to get all of that and more in one single place. The post-pandemic world has a persona and it’s only sensible for us to join the evolution wave – one that is going to be mostly virtual.”, Says Paresh.

Sumit Patil: Co-founder & CTO: Technology, Platform, Product, LinkedIn

Ever since childhood Sumit was fascinated about technology, designs and creativity. Wasn’t that sure about career though, but working one more day every time has brought him here. He loves to design and develop the technology. With close to decade experience in technology domain, now building something really different and useful for business houses across the globe. 

Talking to RokhThokMat, Sumit says, “The idea of Entie originated with a simple thought from Yogesh who didn’t like the way different stakeholders in the start-up ecosystem were connecting and communicating with each other. That’s when I realized that I can help Yogesh bridge this gap by building easy, effective and efficient business dating platform using technology.”

Nikhil Thite: Co-founder & CMO: Marketing, Sales & BD, LinkedIn

Nikhil is working in startup ecosystem from 2014, have advised, developed, and challenged many start-ups to solve the core problems. “Being a marketing guy for such a unique platform, my job is simple. I try to bring as many users on our platform as possible and like a matrimonial site, these users anyways get numerous curated matches to connect with the right investor, cofounder, and or start-ups”, says Nikhil

About Entie:

Web Portal

Andriod App

iOS (Launching soon)

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