Chennai: Antler India has announced the launch of Antler India Fellowship, a 16-week program designed to allow students to change their startup ideas into business.
Fellowship, which comes with a $ 20,000 grant, aims to trigger entrepreneurial talents that develop in Indian colleges and universities by providing platforms for experiments, buildings and scales with equity-free capital support, mentors, and peer networks.
This encourages ideas at the earliest stage.
One of the main features of the fellowship is a $ 20,000 monetary grant (RS 15 lakh) given to equity free people.
Grant is the biggest of its kind for students in India.
Fellows can use grants to setup their startup ideas or even pay off their student loans if they choose to pursue full-time entrepreneurship.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the production of fellowship, students also get access to direct programs, facilitated by experts and founders of the domain, which includes ideas validation, user research, product, engineering, and marketing.
People will also be able to use the peer community to the network and exchange ideas when they build their ideas.
After the 16-week program, Fellows will get the opportunity to raise pre-superior funds from Antler India and will receive support in raising the next funding round.
“We talked to hundreds of students last year and realized the potential of students who had not opened.
Indian students want to start but eventually not pursue their ideas due to lack of guidance and guidance.
They often need more personal guides 1-1 that video courses or class learning failed to provide, “said Nandini Vishwanath, Program Director, Antler India.
“Capital and Pressure Constraints and Parental Pressure To pursue a more stable placement route and work holding up students to pursue their entrepreneurial interests.
Limited accessibility for students from atypical founder backgrounds such as liberal or trade art.
Our program is designed to resolve all these obstacles and facilitate The platform for students to build their ideas and turn it into startup.
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Fellowship is not limited to the founder of students who have their idea prototypes or products with traction.
Students who have strong ideas are also encouraged to apply.
The Pan-Indian program is open to students from any university.
In addition, students who have the placement suspended to actively work on startup ideas are encouraged to register.
“We not only want to activate the existing founders but make new founders.
In some western countries the percentage of student founders is much higher than in India.
We want to change this.
We believe this is today who will build to overcome some of the hardest problems affecting We are in the climate change room, open human potential, energy efficiency and upcoming space such as Metaverse, Blockchain and Web3, “said Rajiv Srivatsa, partner,” Antler India said.
Fellowship is launched for students with startup ideas
