New Delhi, March 15, 2019: India Accelerator – the only GAN partnered, mentorship driven, Acceleration program in India recently hosted “The Inner Circle”. The selected gathering of the highly curated guests got a first-hand view of the multiple opportunities available for the savvy investor seeking structured instruments to invest in the startup world. The session was attended by many eminent personalities like Mr. Rajesh Sud (ex-Vice Chairman and MD Max Life Insurance), Mr. Vikas Gujral (Director and Chief Operating Officer, Max Bupa Health Insurance), and Mr. Manoj Dawne, a serial investor and entrepreneur, Shipra Mishra (Co-founder Kabeela.life Ventures) and many other angel investors.
India Accelerator has also shortlisted nine start-ups for its spring 2019 cohort. The S2019 Program is an intensive 4-month innovation “boot camp” based program, where start-ups are provided with technology, business services and incubation space, along with intense individual mentoring focused on the product and business development. The shortlisted startups will also receive up to INR 30-35 Lakhs in cash, perks and services, with the potential to score follow-up funding after the Demo Day. India Accelerator works intensively to help build teams find a product-market fit and chalk out market-specific growth strategies.
Commenting on spring 2019 Program, Mona Singh, Chief Acceleration Officer of India Accelerator said, “In December 2018, we opened applications for spring 2019 program. We are thrilled to announce the start of the new class. Given the huge volume of applications, We selected almost double our normal class size of 5. For the new class program, we have chosen 9 start-ups from the domain of security, marketing, media and entertainment, travel, hyper-local, B2B travel and AgriTech. Similar to earlier cohorts, these incredible startups will get access to the best of offerings – including mentorship from industry experts, free support, cloud credits, and more. These startups will undergo an intensive 16-weeks mentorship boot camp in March, followed by more engagements in April and May. During the course of the program, the startups will receive insights and support on advanced technologies such as ML, in-depth design sprints for specifically identified challenges, guidance on focused tech projects, networking opportunities at industry events, and much more.”
The start-ups which have been shortlisted for the Spring 2019 Program are
Servizing
Servizing strives to ensure that every society stays secure, informed, happy and connected. They help residents discover solution to issues they encounter in their day-to-day activities. Servizing makes living smoother and more enjoyable with services like real-time notifications of guest or helper entry, online request of maintenance services, official communication services, yellow pages. It empowers RWA/Society Association.
Senpiper
Senpiper is an Al-powered integrated platform for process, analytics & collaboration enablement. It allows automation of all custom processes. This results in faster process rollout on agile platforms, a unified analytics platform with the flexibility of personalization based on role and individuals. Senpiper’s core competencies lie in the LOW CODE & Agile Mobile-first platform, which it aims to leverage to further effective and accurate process management across platforms.
All About Bollywood.in
While there is no ‘Equal Opportunity‘ platform to give the aspiring actors the reach to showcase their talent in Entertainment industry, All About Bollywood.in is the biggest entertainment news portal of India and the first equal opportunity platform for talent.
SearchBar.AI
SearchBar.AI is an AI-based search intelligence platform for Think Less & Type Less Search and Advertising. It focuses to find solutions from two perspectives – ease of user search and ease of marketing for companies through search.
GigZo
GigZo is an on-demand flexible staff aggregator, connecting companies with people looking for flexible jobs, locally. A mobile platform where companies can post one-time, part-time and temporary jobs under 10 minutes. GigZo saves cost by maintaining a pool of part-time workers.
HumHain
From medicines to food, household products to flowers, HumHain can deliver anything the customer wants in just 45 minutes without any surge pricing (as per our terms of service).
Charitism
Charitism is an online fund-raising platform which allows e-commerce users to raise free funds to serve the leading charities and critical causes, while they spend their money on shopping at top online stores like Amazon, flipkart and make my trip.
TheKrishi.com
With growing internet penetration, TheKrishi.com is a technology platform that addresses various problems and provide solutions such as personalized information and connects the ‘krishi’ community to domain experts, identifies diseases, provides real-time access to the market rates and buyers, assesses their credit rates and much more!
Rylah
Rylah simplifies business travel management, resulting in dramatic improvements in savings for business and experience of employees.
India Accelerator will handhold and guide the selected startups through the 4-month program, and then help them channelize the investment in the most effective way so investors get the most out of their investment.
