Mentor Edge is an initiaitive from CIIE (Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entreprenuership), which was set-up in IIM Ahemdabad and is supported by Government of Gujarat and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Each participating city has a dedicated “City Coordinator”  to link Start-ups with a pre-selected groups of Mentors from a variety of domains and verticals.

So far, successful events have been conducted at Ahemdabad, Bangalore & Mumbai.  Upcoming events are listed below:

• 05 June, 2010 @ Mumbai: http://mentoredge.com/event/mentoring-clinic-mumbai-ii
• 12 June, 2010 @ Pune: http://mentoredge.com/event/mentoring-clinic-pune-i
• 19 June, 2010 @ Delhi: http://mentoredge.com/event/mentoring-clinic-delhi-i

Earlier this month on May 15th, Aditi Gupta (in photo below) & Vineesh Kumar launched the Delhi Chapter by organizing a meeting of Mentors at IIT Delhi.

Mentors present included:

• Amrish Sahgal [First Left in photo below]
• Dr. CK Taneja
• Kris Nair
• Rahul Agarwal
• Rahul Verghese
• Ravi Kikan
• Sanjay Gupta
• Suhail Kassim [Centre in photo below]
• Amarendra Srivastava

We had a good discussion on the ‘screening’ process for entrepreneurs: basic policy is “no rejections” but due diligence is taken in terms of helping applicant entrepreneurs to be well-prepared.

There was a longer discussion on ‘criteria & process’  to ‘match’ entrepreneurs & mentors. Ravi Kikan with a ‘backing’ of about 50,000 members in his Linkedin Group ‘Startup Specialists’ was keen to make it more democratic for entrepreneurs. The debate was too long to reproduce here. Suffice it to say that this initiative is from Mentors to empower entrepreneurs and facilitate an access to world class mentoring, long-term partnerships and ‘timely’ funds.

Last Day for applying for Delhi Clinic is June 5 2010. Apply Here: http://mentoredge.com/mentee/for-mentees.