IIM-A, BITS grads launch 1 million USD fund to support and invest in student startups
Each selected 20 start-ups will be funded by the team with USD 25,000.
Press Trust of India | May 26, 2021 | 11:33 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Abhishek Sethi and Prateek Behera, graduates from IIM-A and BITS Pilani, respectively, have launched a USD one million fund to support and invest in startups founded by college students. Their venture, gradCapital, based here, said on Wednesday it would invest USD 25,000 in each of the 20 start-ups they select over the next year.
gradCapital, also being supported by ' CIIE.CO - The Innovation Continuum', based out of IIM Ahmedabad, would host an eight-week, intensive programme for companies founded and run by college students, it said in a statement. "Apart from building a strong and sustainable structure for their company, these young entrepreneurs will leave with countless tools, crucial knowledge, a network of peers, mentors and investors, and funding of USD 25,000", it said. gradCapital plans to invest in 100 startups in the next three years. It has now opened the application process for its first cohort of start-ups.
"We genuinely believe in academic spaces. Entrepreneurship is a way to bring such strong ideas to life and create value for society. We are betting on such ideas," said Sethi. While conceptualizing the idea of gradCapital, Sethi and Behera ran a pilot to test their "hypothesis". They ended up with a cohort of eight companies, including KiranaKart, Humit, Codedamn, Valerio Electric, and Neuralastic. According to Behera, "There is tremendous value waiting to be unlocked by students from Science, Commerce, Arts, and Engineering colleges".
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