SkillUp Circle Supports Student Entrepreneurship at EUREKA! 2026, Goa Engineering College

On 27 August 2026, SkillUp Circle participated in EUREKA! Pitching Competition 2026, organised by the Entrepreneurship Cell of Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi, Ponda.

The competition was held as part of the E-Cell IIT Bombay National Entrepreneurship Challenge 2026, bringing together more than 25 student teams from Goa.

Tejas Hoskatti, Founder of SkillUp Circle, served as a jury member, collaborating with Jiwan Panjiker and the GEC entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Moving Beyond the Pitch

A startup competition provides students with an opportunity to communicate their ideas. Constructive evaluation helps them examine whether those ideas can develop into workable solutions.

The EUREKA! event gave participating teams opportunities to present their concepts, explain their proposed solutions and receive feedback from the jury.

The judging discussions challenged students to think more deeply about:

• Real customer problems and user needs.
• Technical and commercial feasibility.
• Competitive alternatives and differentiation.
• Costs, implementation and operational constraints.
• Growth potential and scalability.

Encouraging a Builder Mindset

SkillUp Circle believes that entrepreneurship education should extend beyond pitch decks and competitions.

Students benefit from learning how to research problems, test assumptions, develop prototypes, gather feedback and improve their solutions.

This approach connects entrepreneurship with hands-on technical education, Design Thinking and real-world problem-solving.

Startup Mentoring and Innovation Programs for Colleges

SkillUp Circle collaborates with institutions on innovation workshops, entrepreneurship bootcamps, student mentoring, prototype development and startup evaluation.