Stanford GSB picks IIT Gandhinagar start-up for mentorship, upskilling programme
Abhiraj P | March 15, 2022 | 03:05 PM IST | 1 min read
Stanford Seed programme: IIT Gandhinagar start-up Havi to get support from Stanford GSB through mentorship, strengthening strategic skills, partnerships, and gaining valuable local and global connections.
NEW DELHI: Havi, a robotics, IoT and consumer electronics company, which has its research centre at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar research park has been selected for the Stanford Seed programme 2022 by the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB).
Havi makes robotic toys and designs technology products to help people learn robotics, IoT, electronics, and other STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths) projects. The company has also developed Havi code, which is a free code-learning platform.
Only 90 start-ups are selected for the Stanford Seed programme from across the world. The programme duration is five-months, and it helps the start-up to transform into scalable businesses and to impact their communities positively. Under the Stanford Seed programme, Havi will get support from Stanford GSB through mentorship, strengthening strategic skills, partnerships, and gaining valuable local and global connections.
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“Our entire team and I are extremely delighted with this achievement. For us, it is the variation of our purpose - “Inspire to learn, create and perform, to everyone, at all ages”. The programme will help us in connecting with and learning from one of the most mature start-up ecosystems of the world,” said Prashant Mamtora, founder and CEO of Havi.
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