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JPGBengaluru Software products think tank iSpirt is attempting to boost crowdfunding for Indian ventures with the latest edition of a daylong technology entrepreneurship event , as part of a broader effort to encourage innovation and manufacture of local techpowered products for the masses . Crowdfunding refers to the process of raising funds from multiple investors through a webbased platform or social networking site for a specific project , business venture or social cause . With the latest edition of Innofest , which was launched last year in August , iSpirt is attempting to drive the maker movement in India and create the Indian equivalent of the popular Maker Faire in the US , which encourages creative doityourself projects from innovators . The push towards showcasing affordable , locallymade hardware and technology products comes at a time when India is attempting to shed its tag of just being the back office of the world and the premier destination for lowcost , outsourced software projects . A new India is emerging before our eyes . A new segment of 100 million families , 500 million people who are outside the formal sector are coming into the formal sector because of India Stack , smartphones , connectivity and now demonetization , said Sharad Sharma , cofounder of iSpirt . Once they are part of the formal economy , they get access to credit and can embrace paytouse business models in a way that ' s not possible today . This improves human development outcomes significantly , Sharma said . For this year ' s Innofest , 150 handpicked projects will be showcased all over the country and more than 2 , 000 bootstrapped entrepreneurs and innovators will be part of the initiative . The event , to be held in Bengaluru on 8 December , will feature entrepreneurs , productmakers and innovators who are yet to scale up in a big way and have not yet built enterprises that can be classified as startups . Most of the projects of such entrepreneurs and businesses are funded through crowdfunding platforms , and not by bigticket venture capital firms . Venture capital firms typically back businesses that have an addressable market of Rs 1 , 0005 , 000 crore and the potential to capture at least 1015 % of the market in about five years . This is not the case with most of these businesses in their formative years . We are going to see an explosion of products that cater to the ' Bharat ' markets . These products will have a different value proposition than what ' s available from the West . Local innovators will bring them to life . We must nurture these innovators because , one day , they will supply to the midsegment all around the world , said Sharma . For example , they midsegment may not be able to afford an RO water filter but would be able to engage in a monthly contract . The provider of this RO water service would , in all likelihood , use a desi product , he said . Projects that will be showcased this year range from hightech blood transfusion machines to bionic arms from entrepreneurs and productmakers across the country . Last year , showcased products included a working prototype of a virtual reality headset named Tesseract that rendered any content in 2 D videos , games into 3 Dwhich was built by three thirdyear engineering dropouts . Other projects included an affordable mobile phonebased solution , targeted at farmers , to control motors remotely by a startup called Kisan Raja . Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant , Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani and Biocon chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw have thrown their weight behind this initiative . Major crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Wishberry are also expected to participate in Innofest . The initiative comes at a time when the lack of investor appetite and entrepreneurial inclination for innovative technology are ailing the domestic startup ecosystem and crowdfunding is still a nascent concept in India . In India ' s fastdeveloping startup ecosystem , a disproportionate amount of venture capital has been pumped into local unicorn startups such as Flipkart and Ola by global investors ranging from Tiger Global Management to SoftBank . With Innofest , local startup ecosystem backers are hoping that locally built products from a different set of innovators and businesses would go mainstream . For instance , Niti Aayog CEO Kant is currently attempting to create labs for makers and innovators in different parts of the country as part of an initiative to promote Indiamade products . 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