WHAT IS IT?

A 3 Month Sector-Agnostic Program for start-ups from Manipur.

Startup Manipur Acceleration Program 1.0 represents a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and enriching the startup ecosystem in the northeastern region of India.


What you get ?

  • Weekly session on Startup Diagnostics called “Friday with Founders” for 1:00 hrs on every Friday.
  • Weekly 1-on-1 Domain Mentorship with each Startup Founders

Objectives:

  • Enabling Startup Ecosystem in the North East
  • Working with experts, mentors and Founders to create a community based on similar interests and mind-set.
  • Building a Startup Playbook
  • The objective of the program is to help founders create “the Startup Playbook” with real-time problems which they are likely to encounter and eased by a set of curated mentors to equip them with impactful knowledge.
  • Sustainable and Scalable Venture
  • The growth the program aims to create sustainable and scalable business ventures that will be able to work on real-world problems and needs in the industry

MENTOR PANEL


Prof Dhruv Nath

Director (Lead Angels), Angel Investor and Mentor, Author

Kaustubh Dhargalkar

Author, Design Thinking Coach, Dean-Business Design, REDX, Innowe, NISP @Weschool

Rajnish Rawat

Co-founder & CEO at Social Pill, CEO-PI Labs, former Publisher- Midday & Time Out India.

Suyog Sunil Risbud

 Futurist Art Director, Service designer, Filmmaker, Content creator

Jeel Doshi

Entrepreneur, Early Stage Investments, Investor Relations

Amit Choudhary

Impact Investment, Finance & Compliances

TIMELINE AND SCHEDULE

Program launch

21st November, 2022

Applications open till

14th November, 2022

One-to-one Interaction

25th November, 2022

Cohort program begins

24th November, 2022

Demo Day

To be Decided

WHO CAN APPLY?

Early-stage startups or businesses with at least a prototype / MVP or a pilot completed. We look for committed founders with conviction in their models

And NO, you do not have to be a tech company to be part of the program. Our goal is to nurture entrepreneurship of every kind. (If you are currently at an idea stage, you are unlikely to benefit from our accelerator program, though you are most welcome to attend the public events, expert talks, panel discussion and group learning sessions we will conduct. You can also sign up for our mailers and other information notes that we will share to help entrepreneurs become better aware of aspects of a business building).