PlatformPlay to bring TechCrunch Event Series to India

Less than two months after the launch of Rammohan Sundaram’s PlatformPlay, has partnered with TechCrunch to bring a series of two-day conferences to India in the year ahead.

The TechCrunch conference series in India will be a three-city event, starting with Bangalore in November of 2013, followed by Mumbai in April 2014 and culminating in New Delhi that August.

Like pending conferences held in the  Rome, Beijing and Moscow, TechCrunch’s events in India will include notable tech, investor and entrepreneurship speakers, a startup pitch competition and a startup exhibition floor. There will be space for sponors to display their goods and services.

“A TechCrunch event provides the global platform that the Indian tech ecosystem needs to enable our startups to flourish and to fuel the growth that we need to become a major player on the international stage” said Rammohan Sundaram, Chairman and Managing Director of PlatformPlay. “Given that venture capitalists invested close to $1.2 Billion USD in the Indian marketplace last year alone, it’s clear the tech community is eager to find the next big thing in and from India.”

“Everyone knows about India’s wealth of tech and entrepreneurial talent, and we are eager to bring our TechCrunch events platform to India to help everyone move forward,” added Ned Desmond, Chief Operating Officer of TechCrunch. “We believe that hosting this conference series in India is an important step to deepen the connections amongst the global tech community.”

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PlatformPlay is Ram’s second entrepreneurial venture that is being back by SVG Media whose Manish Vij sits on the board of PlatformPlay. PlatformPlay is India’s first Digital Company that focusses extensively on helping international brands launch in India through its Build, Operate and Transfer Model along with Joint Ventures as India entry specialists. It also is into monetization through representation and end to end digital consulting. Launched in March 2013, PlatformPlay has offices across three offices in India with its headquarters being Gurgaon.