Founders on Campus
A monthly evening session with a founder or operator — 40 minutes of story, 20 of questions.
Know More →PSG Institute of Management · Coimbatore
Creating founders on campus
The Entrepreneurship Cell of PSGIM has, since 2019, helped students take an idea from a classroom conversation to a working venture — through speaker sessions, build weekends, mentorship and the National Entrepreneurship Challenge.
What is PSGIM E-Cell?
Ideas, tested early — and taken seriously.
PSGIM E-Cell helps students and young professionals through workshops, speaker sessions, a build-weekend format and an annual idea competition — a small crucible for innovation, run entirely by students.
We provide guidance from experienced mentors, routes to a first customer, and a network of alumni founders and partner E-Cells that can change the course of a venture.
2019
Established
16
Active members
12+
Events a year
NEC
2026 · Registered
Our Initiatives
What we run, every year
Programmes repeat each academic year, so a first-year can follow the whole arc before they graduate.
48-Hour Bootcamp
Teams take a real problem to a tested prototype and a two-minute pitch in one weekend.
Know More →Ideathon
An open annual idea contest with a cash prize and a mentoring block for the top three teams.
Know More →NEC Campus Drive
Our structured push for the National Entrepreneurship Challenge — activities, outreach and reporting, Aug–Nov.
Know More →Campus Ambassadors
Students across departments who carry E-Cell into their classes, run micro-events and bring in ideas.
Know More →Idea Clinic
One-on-one feedback sessions where a team leaves with a mentor and a concrete next step.
Know More →Our network
Who we work with
Placeholder — the partner, incubator and press list is being confirmed with the office.
PSG-STEP
Alumni Founders
Cbe Startups
Partner E-Cells
Industry Mentors
NEC · IIT Bombay
Mentors & speakers
Who's been in the room
Placeholder wall — real names, photos and designations to be added after the drive.
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Speaker oneFounder, local startupMN
Mentor twoAngel investorAL
Alumnus threePSGIM ’18OP
Operator fourHead of GrowthVC
Investor fiveSeed fund partnerFN
Founder sixD2C brandTestimonial
The Cell gave our idea its first real audience — and its first three customers. That is where it stopped being a class project.
Placeholder quote — student founder, to be replaced with a real one
Calendar
What's on
Sample entries — the live site pulls these from a file the team edits, no code change needed.
18Sep
Founders on Campus — bootstrapped SaaS from Coimbatore
UpcomingOpen to allAuditorium
04Oct
48-Hour Bootcamp — problem statements from local industry
Registrations openTeams of 4
22Aug
NEC kick-off & orientation
PastSeminar Hall
30Jul
Idea clinic — one-on-one feedback with mentors
Past14 teams
12Mar
Ideathon 2026 finals
Past₹25k prize pool
Where we're headed
Targets for this drive
Current standing against the goals set for the NEC cycle. Reported to the faculty coordinators every week.
Instagram108 → 3,000Reels, founder stories and event recaps; collaborations with other college E-Cells.
LinkedIn414 → 3,000The priority channel for NEC — every activity documented and tagged.
Documented events6 → 12Each with date, footfall, photos and outcome, published on this site.
Illustrative figures · baseline recorded Sep 2026 · targets end of October
Gallery
From the floor
Placeholder tiles — event photography to be added once the shared drive is set up.
Get involved
Bring an idea, or come find one
Open to every department and both years. Fill the interest form and we'll add you to the next session.
- ecell@psgim.ac.in (placeholder)
- @ecell.psgim
- PSGIM E-Cell
- Find us
- PSG Institute of Management, Avinashi Road, Peelamedu, Coimbatore 641004
About · PSGIM E-Cell
We turn students into founders
The Entrepreneurship Cell of PSG Institute of Management is a student-run body that has, since 2019, built a small but serious entrepreneurship culture on campus — events, mentors, competitions, and a place for an idea to be taken seriously.
The story
PSGIM E-Cell started in 2019 as a handful of students who wanted the same thing the older IITs and NITs had — a room where you could bring a half-formed idea and leave with a next step.
Seven years on, the Cell runs a repeating calendar of speaker sessions, build weekends and an annual Ideathon, and it represents PSGIM in the National Entrepreneurship Challenge run by E-Cell, IIT Bombay.
This year the team is building its first proper website and a serious social-media presence — the page you are reading is the reference for how that will look.
What we do
Founders on Campus — a monthly evening with a founder or operator, half story and half questions.
48-Hour Bootcamp — a weekend where teams take a real problem to a tested prototype and a pitch.
Ideathon — an open annual idea contest with a prize pool and mentoring for the finalists.
NEC Campus Drive — our structured push for the National Entrepreneurship Challenge, Aug–Nov.
Vision & mission
What we're for
Drafted by the team, pending sign-off from the faculty coordinators.
To make entrepreneurship a natural career choice for every PSGIM student, and to build a campus where ideas are tested, mentored and taken to market.
- Run speaker sessions, workshops and competitions every term, open to all departments.
- Pair every serious idea with a mentor and a route to a first customer.
- Turn up for NEC and other national challenges with real activity to show.
- Publish what happened — numbers, photos, outcomes — after every event.
How we're run
Sixteen students, two coordinators
Roster from the current NEC team sheet. Roles are being assigned; photos and profiles to follow.
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Dr. Venketalakshmi
Faculty Coordinator · PSGIM E-Cell
Faculty Coordinator · PSGIM E-Cell
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Dr. Vijay Vardhan
Faculty Coordinator · PSGIM E-Cell
Faculty Coordinator · PSGIM E-Cell
Patron — Dr. Srividya, Director, PSG Institute of Management
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Nimisha S25UT28 · Year 2AS
Amrutha SivaaniD26AB07 · Year 1KS
Khavya SD26UT18 · Year 1JA
Jegadharani AD26AC02 · Year 1PA
Prabodhini AD25AC10 · Year 1AN
Akshaya NadarD26AC05 · Year 1AA
Athmika AD26AC08 · Year 1SM
Shiva Monish RD26NKU34 · Year 1SD
Susrutha Dhanaraj25UT56 · Year 2CT
Charanbalaji TD26UT06 · Year 1SB
Sruthi BD26AD13 · Year 1SM
Shabharish M25AD47 · Year 2PS
Pranav SVD26UT32 · Year 1JR
Jeyashri R25AA21 · Year 2DM
Dhatchina Moorthi TAD26AD05 · Year 1Timeline
How we got here
Illustrative milestones — dates to be confirmed against E-Cell records.
- 2019
- E-Cell founded by a student group at PSGIM.
- 2021
- First inter-department Ideathon; speaker series becomes monthly.
- 2023
- Bootcamp format introduced; first mentor panel assembled.
- 2025
- Cross-college collaborations begin; social accounts opened.
- 2026
- Registered for NEC; first website and outreach drive (this project).
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About this site
Designed & built in-house
This reference site was designed and built by Dhatchina Moorthi TA (Technical Team) with the PSGIM E-Cell core team, as the standard the production website will be built to. Its structure, type and colour follow E-Cell, IIT Bombay.
Built as a single static page — no backend, no tracking. The production version will keep content in simple files any team member can edit.
Dhatchina Moorthi TA · PSGIM E-Cell · 2026
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