Start-Up Fair 2026
24 March 2026, Tuesday
24 March 2026, Tuesday
11:00 AM
01:00 PM
Career Engagement & Corporate Services (CECS), IILM University, Gurugram
Corporate Engagement & Career Services (CECS), IILM University, Gurugram
IILM University, Gurugram
The Start-Up Fair 2026, held on 23rd and 24th March 2026 at IILM Campus, Gurugram, was a high-impact two-day career engagement initiative that brought together 6 innovative organisations from diverse sectors of the modern economy — including Deep Tech (AI), Global Logistics, EdTech, Digital Publishing, Mobile Gaming, Corporate Gifting, and Social Networking — creating a broad-spectrum entrepreneurial exposure ecosystem for the MBA Batch of 2025–2027.
A defining feature of the fair was its exceptional leadership access: 83% of participating firms were represented by their Founders or CEOs — including Mr. Lavenay Itkan (Founder, Fastglobe), Ms. Maulishree (Founder, Think Global), Mr. Himanshu Singla (Founder, Matyaj), Mr. Paras Bhaisora (Founder, AcquX), and Mr. Gaurav Tanwar (Founder, Bluntt) — providing students with rare, direct access to organisational decision-makers and entrepreneurial leaders rather than conventional HR or recruitment representatives.
The fair successfully facilitated 18 total internship selections for the MBA Batch of 2025–2027, with 8 offers confirmed at the time of reporting and 10 awaiting confirmation — representing a substantial and multi-organisational internship placement outcome that directly advances student career development and professional exposure across the startup and technology ecosystem.
The Participant & Hiring Matrix documents the sector diversity and selection outcomes across all six organisations: Fastglobe (Tech-driven Logistics & Global Trade — 5 interns, confirmed), Think Global (EdTech/International Education — 3 interns, awaiting), Coolboots/Times Internet (AI-Tech & Mobile Gaming — 3 interns, awaiting), Matyaj (Corporate Gifting & Promotional Tech — 3 interns, confirmed), AcquX (AI-powered Conversion Rate Optimisation — 2 interns, awaiting), and Bluntt (Social Networking & Tech — 2 interns, awaiting).
The operational format of the fair was designed to accommodate both large-scale company presentations and intimate personal interviews simultaneously, ensuring quality engagement for every participant — reflecting a sophisticated event management approach that balanced breadth of exposure with depth of individual interaction, and demonstrating the CECS team’s commitment to delivering a high-quality, student-centric career engagement experience.
MBA Batch 2025–2027 students gained direct, firsthand access to Founders and CEOs from six innovative organisations spanning Deep Tech (AI), Global Logistics, EdTech, Mobile Gaming, Corporate Gifting, and Social Networking — an exceptionally high-quality leadership access experience that provided mentorship, entrepreneurial insight, and organisational perspective far beyond what conventional campus recruitment drives typically offer.
The breadth of sectors represented at the fair — from AI-powered conversion rate optimisation (AcquX) and tech-driven global logistics (Fastglobe) to social networking (Bluntt) and international education technology (Think Global) — gave students multi-sector exposure to the startup ecosystem in a single structured event, significantly broadening their understanding of the diverse career pathways available within India’s growing entrepreneurial landscape.
A total of 18 internship selections were facilitated across the two-day fair — 8 confirmed and 10 awaiting — representing a directly impactful career outcome for the MBA Batch of 2025–2027, with students at Fastglobe and Matyaj receiving confirmed offers and students at Think Global, Coolboots, AcquX, and Bluntt advancing through the confirmation process.
The dual-format structure of the event — combining large-scale company presentations with intimate personal interview sessions — gave students the experience of engaging with organisations at both an informational and evaluative level, developing their ability to navigate the full arc of a startup recruitment interaction from initial brand awareness to individual professional assessment.
Engagement with 83% Founder/CEO-led organisations provided students with a distinctive entrepreneurial education that complements formal MBA instruction — exposing them to the lived experience of building and scaling startups, the decision-making philosophy of founders, and the organisational cultures of growth-stage ventures, thereby equipping them with a richer and more practically grounded understanding of entrepreneurship as both a career path and a professional mindset.