KOCHI:
Select startups from Kerala will be given opportunities to start business in the United Kingdom, according to British Deputy High Commissioner to India Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford.
The diplomat, who led a top-level delegation of the British government, revealed this on a visit today to the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) at its premises in Kalamassery, 20 km north of this city.
The seven-member delegation held talks with 15 select startups under KSUM. The hosts also gave a power-point presentation on the activities of the KSUM as the Kerala government’s central agency for entrepreneurship development and incubation activities in the state.
The delegation under Pilmore-Bedford comprised Julie Chappell, Managing Director, London & Partners, K T Rajan, Deputy Head of Mission Bangalore and Cluster Head – Technology & Innovation; Divya Bajaj, Vice President, London & Partners; Chethan G M, Inward Investment Adviser, Department for International Trade; Rashmi Priyesh, Trade Adviser – Technology, Department for International Trade and Asha Thampi, EA to the British Deputy High Commissioner.
KSUM, founded in 2006, undertakes the planning, establishment, and management of the Technology Business Incubator as a startup accelerator in Kerala to promote technology-based entrepreneurship activities and create the infrastructure as well as ecosystem required to support high-technology-based businesses.
