About BFSI Bootcamp
Z Nation Lab’s BFSI Bootcamp in partnership with Economic Times is one day Program within The Economic Times Innovaton Tribe 2018, which aims to help early-to growth-stage startup companies refine and test their value proposition with the support of the Experts from world’s leading financial service firms.
BFSI Innovation bootcamp will demonstrate how technology innovation has the potential to empower industry players and regulators, improve common understanding, reduce regulatory risk and compliance costs and shape the investment journey. The mission is to empower ambitious and ingenious entrepreneurs who are developing innovative solutions in the smart finance and payments industry.
The selection panel is on the lookout for companies that will shape the next trends in the BFSI Segment.
Focus areas

Regtech

Lending

Payments

Capital Markets

Blockchain

Data Analysis

Customer Engagement

Wealth Management
The Bootcamp program will offer-
- Mentoring by senior executives from leading global financial institutions.
- Immersive workshops given by domain experts, covering UX & interface design, intellectual property rights, marketing, licensing agreements, legal structure and pitching and presentation.
- Opportunity to showcase solutions to an audience of venture capitalists, private equity firms, industry experts and senior Financial Services executives and Media.
Benefits included -
- Entrepreneurs get faster market validation and unmatched access to industry leading customers.
- Startup Participants will receive additional mentoring and introductions to our partners across other key global Fin-tech hubs.
- Insights from senior figures and user groups in the financial sector – covering product feedback and potential deployment of proofs-of-concept.
Guidelines
Who can participate?
Any startup registered as a private limited company or as a partnership firm or a limited liability operating in India or abroad and provides innovation, development or improvement of products or processes or services and have received one stage of funding, only their entries will be accepted.
Is there a bootcamp fee?
How can the Bootcamp fee be paid?
What is the last date for the registration of the Bootcamp?
EcoSystem Partners





Workshops

Google Cloud Engine
By – Krishnachytanya Ayyagari (Startup Ecosystem Partnerships Manager, Google Cloud India)

Regulation and India Stack
By – Ajay Bohora, HDFC Credila

Branding & Customer Experience
By – Rakesh Pandey & Robert Lobo
Mentors

Sudin Baraokar
Advisor at global IT and Innovation
Ramachandran. G
Director at Clubbing TV
Mukesh Singh
Co Founder at Davos Finservices Pvt. Ltd.
Kaushal Gandhi
VP - Commercial Bank of China
Prasanna Lohar
Head Innovative at DCB Bank Ltd.
Amit Mehendale
Managing Director at RoboCapital
Abhishek Bhagat
Investment banking head at HDFC Bank
Shashank Bajpai
CISO - ACKO General Insurance Limited
Upendra Namburi
CIO at Bharti AXA
Pushpmitra Das
Venture Partner at Z Nation Lab
Naveen Bachwani
Group Head - Customer Experience @ Edelweiss
Shubhanga Prasad
Head - Client Services at MEDICI
Ajay Bohora
Co-founder & MD, HDFC Credila
Vidhya Shankar Sathyamurthi
Executive Director - Grant Thornton India LLP
Avez Sayed
Chief Risk Officer, SBI General Insurance
Venkat Kumar
VP at Kotak Mahindra Bank
Niraj Khowala
Director, Origination at Standard Chartered Bank
Manish Dwivedi
VP ( Digital Initiative) - Kotak Mahindra Bank
Apoorva Tiwari
COO at IIFL
Anil Jagalur
Sr. Consultant at LEXORBIS
Manoj Mehta
Director - MTC Group
Pashu Gopalan
President - SunEdison
Ashish Jain
CFO - Lumina Datamatics Ltd
Sanjay Agarwal
CFO - Jyothy labs
Bhavesh Patel
Country Manager & CEO - Coface India
Robert Lobo
Venture Partner - Textile & Apparel
Pratap Basutkar
Chapter Co-Director, Startup Grind
Girish Bajaj
Blockchain, AI, Fintech & ICO Global Strategic CEO, GB Blockchainer
C R Jacob
IP Strategist, LexOrbis
Amit Jain
CFO at Ashika Credit Capital Limited
Abhineet Sarkar
Senior Consultant - PwC IndiaVenture Capitalist

Sachin Tagra
Head at Network 18 media and investments.
Anil Joshi
Managing partner at Unicorn India ventures
Swati Mehra
Co-founder & Partner at Sixth Sense Ventures
Rajesh Sehgal
Managing Partner at Equanimity Investments
Apurva Damani
Director, Artha India Ventures
Dinesh Tiwari
Broad Peak Capital Advisors
Anu Aggarwal
IAN
Abhishek Loonker
Vice President Ascent Capital
Ashish Taneja
Managing Director at growX ventures
Vikram Gupta
Founder and managing partner of Ivycap Ventures
Sushanto Mitra
Founder & CEO - Lead Angel Network
Abhishek Agarwal
Managing Partner - Rockstud Capital LLP
Pratik Poddar
Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners
Krishnan Neelakantan
Sr Director at Ankur Capital Fund
Sreekanth Perepu
Investor Director - Hyderabad Angels
Puneet Kumar
VP - Nexus Venture Partners
Krishna Malhotra
Sr. Ass. Sterlite Technology Ltd.
Sachin Karnik
President - Mumbai Angels