Phase 1 was conducted over a span of 2 days; 11th & 12th of March. On the 11th of March, teams from Mumbai presented their pitches to judges and investors. The participants were required to submit an exhaustive document detailing their business idea and its conception from initial funding to scaling in the future.The teams that were not in Mumbai or could not be present in person got a chance to present their pitches via online platforms on the 12th of March. The in-house judges evaluated and filtered the teams on the basis of their document keeping in mind the various factors of assessment mentioned in the proposal.