The Spark initiative in partnership with incubator Forge had 1,350 registrations with 23 accepted.

India-based conglomerate Vedanta Group said it would invest Rs 100 crore ($!35,000) through an open innovation programme.

Vedanta Spark will focus on sustainability practices and “looking to partner with early-stage, growth stage, and venture stage tech startups in order to tap into massive innovation and growth opportunities”.

Sunil Duggal, Vedanta Group CEO, said: “We will make it our duty to embrace these startup partners as we strongly believe Vedanta can derive huge enterprise value. We will make this a periodic programme going forward and consider…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.