This document announces a national finance summit being held by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade to discuss startup valuations. The summit will analyze investment trends in Indian startups, the role of banks and other institutions in funding startups, and metrics used to value startups. It will also explore the increasing role of investment banking in funding startups. Speakers will include industry professionals and the expected outcomes are to understand current investment scenarios for startups and how to boost investing in startups in India.

1. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
And
Capital- Finance & Investment Club
“Startup valuations: A reality or a work of fiction”
Venue Date and Time
Indian Institute of
Foreign Trade Delhi
11th August, 2016
2 PM – 4:30 PM
TradeWinds 2016
National Finance Symposium 2016

2. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
Trade Winds : IIFT’s Annual Business Summit
• Trade Winds, IIFT's Annual Business Summit, provides a platform for IIFT's
students to interact with eminent professionals from the industry as well
as various esteemed international organizations.
• The event comprises 5 summits: The National Finance Symposium, the
National Marketing Summit, the National Leadership Summit, the National HR
Summit and the National Operations Symposium. Covering all facets of
management education, leaders across functions and industries share their
insights and experiences regarding contemporary issues in business.
• The audience also gets an opportunity to pick their brain on innovations and
trends prevalent in the field.
OBJECTIVE
Dr Raghuram Rajan at one of the
panel discussions held at IIFT
Journey so Far: Prominent Speakers at IIFT
Dr Raghuram
Rajan,
RBI Governor
Mr Dinesh Deo
CEO, BNY Mellon India
Mr Sanjiv Mehta,
CEO HUL
Smt Rajshree Birla,
Philanthropist
Hon’ Minister of
Commerce, Smt.
Nirmala
Sitharaman
Mr Bunty Bohra,
MD Goldman Sachs
Mr Anil Agarwal,
Chairman, Vedanta Group
Mr D Shiv Kumar, Chairman &
CEO (India), PepsiCo
Hon’ Minister of Commerce, Smt
Nirmala Sitarman

3. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
National Finance Summit 2016
Theme : Startup valuations: A reality or a work of fiction
• Unicorn is a popular term that's used to describe tech startups worth $1
billion. But there are many of these proliferating right, left and center and are
abundant in Silicon Valley.
• As of January 2016, there were 229 unicorns across all tech sectors, with
$ 175 billion in funding and $ 1.3 trillion valuation; there were 112 in
mobile Internet alone. There are so many companies with sky-high
valuations of $10 billion or more that the industry has come up with a
whole new name to describe them. Bloomberg Business has christened
these companies Decacorns.
• Of the 112, there's a growing slew of decacorns including Airbnb, Dropbox,
Pinterest, Snapchat, Uber, Flipkart. Uber's latest funding round values it at
around $51 billion. Sitting behind the valuations is often a complex
structure of investor guarantees and multiple share classes that
disguises the real value of common shares.
• How investors and founders derive those enormous valuations through
some fuzzy math is a question on everyone’s mind.
• Disruptive or not, is there something that their backers are seeing that those
in the rational investing world, they who assess companies on the present
value of their future earnings, aren’t.
• Aren’t these numbers too huge for the companies who haven’t even
started generating profits?
Bubble Burst?

4. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
Expected Outcomes from the Session
India has emerged at No. 2 in startups incubated in a year, second only to the U.S,
and India’s startup ecosystem has gained recognition in the global financial world.
In this backdrop, The National Finance Summit 2016, attempts to bring
together industry viewpoints on the following topics:
Analysing current investment scenario for startups
in India and its impact on startups. Identifying the
role of government and other financial and non-
financial institution to boost investing via initiatives
such as Startup India
1.
Analyzing the increasing role of Investment
Banking in case of mezzanine funding, PE funding
and M&As of startups. What is it that is turning
investors cautious about Indian start-ups
3.
Analyzing the interest of traditional banks in funding of
Financial technology startups. This new generation
of tech upstarts is appealing to big banks with
financially-focused apps, software and systems.
How this will help to avoid a potential faceoff
between the two ?
4.
Understanding the metrics behind valuation of
startups and analyzing the trends of Pre-IPO profit
booking v/s Post-IPO stock performance of recently
listed startups
2.

5. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
“Over the years, IIFT has broadened its academic
framework by providing management education to the
brightest minds of the country. “
– Shri Pranab Mukherjee (Hon’ble President of India)
The former Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh released a
commemorative stamp to mark
the Golden Jubilee year of IIFT
IIFT : A Brief Snapshot
Set up in 1963 by the Government of India, The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
(IIFT) contributes to professionalizing India’s International Businesss management
by developing human resources; generating, analyzing and disseminating data;
and conducting research. MBA (IB) is the flagship programme offered, apart from
Weekend MBA, Executive and Certificate Programmes, offered through
conventional as well as online modes.
IIFT undertakes path-breaking research studies with
organizations like WTO, World Bank, UNCTAD and the
Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of
India.
The Institute visualizes its role as:
• A catalyst for new ideas, concepts and skills for the internationalization of the
Indian economy.
• The primary provider of training and research-based consultancy in the
areas of international business, for the corporate sector, Government and the
student community, at large.
• An institution with proven capability to continuously upgrade its knowledge base
with a view to meet the requirements of the Government, trade and industry
through both sponsored and non-sponsored research and consultancy
assignments.

6. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Deemed University)
Delhi: IIFT Bhawan, B-21, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110016, Tel: +91-11-26965124, +91-11-26965051 Fax: +91-1126853956
Kolkata:1583, Madurah, Chowbaga Road, Ward no 108, Anandpur, Kolkata, West Bengal-700107
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