We are accepting applications until 20th December 2019
“Accelerate your startup to the next stage with our 6-month program”
An acceleration program designed specifically for startups working with AI, AR / VR, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, NLP and other deep tech.
Hear from our mentors and startups
Why Avishkar?
Upto 80L seed fund for your startup to grow
Explore, learn, connect with the Professors from IIITH
Gain traction with our Team & Mentors helping Entrepreneurs for over 10 years
Dive in the Environment, Network and accelerate through our events
Access the prototyping Labs & research labs
Access to Cloud credits
Who Should Apply?
Startup should be registered in India.
Startup should have full-time founder.
The startup should ideally have basic MVP in place along with customer validation.
The startup should be based on emerging technologies.
Avishkar Startups
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- Metafact
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- Hyrelabs
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- Scholr
FAQs
WHAT IS THE SELECTION PROCESS?
The shortlisted applicants will be informed by CIE and invited to the pitching session at IIIT-H. The applicants will have to pitch to a panel. The selected ones will be informed about their selection in a week’s time.
WILL MY STARTUP BE ELIGIBLE FOR ANY FUNDING DURING THE PROGRAMME?
Yes, funding is one of the key offering of this programme. Depending on the development stage as well as the pitch deck along with the tech validation, seeding funding could be up to 40 Lakhs.
WHOM SHOULD I CONTACT FOR ANY OTHER QUERIES?
For any further information drop an email to cieoutreach@iiit.ac.in
WHEN WILL THE COHORT START?
A new cohort is conducted twice a year and each cohort runs for six-months.
Contact our team at cieoutreach@iiit.ac.in
See what our start-ups have to say
Meet our Mentors
Sanjay Jesrani
Resident Mentor
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Sanjay Jesrani is the Founder & CEO of Go North Ventures.
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Go North is an angel investment and advisory firm, focused on investing in & mentoring Startups. It also provides Strategy inputs to high growth Early stage companies and SMB’s moving to their next orbit.
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Sanjay, an active member of the Indian Angel Network, the premier national group of Angel Investors – has investments in startups across the Healthcare, Education, Impact, Consumer and Tech sectors. A Charter member at TiE, Hyderabad (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he is also on the advisory board of Parampara Capital, an early stage fund and 50K Network, an emerging national investor network.
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He was the Executive Vice President & Head, Global Delivery Center, Hitachi Consulting India. As CEO and Head of the Global Delivery Center at India, he led the company’s global delivery team of 1800+ across the centers at Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.
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As a member of Hitachi Consulting’s Exec Leadership Team, he was actively involved in the company’s Growth strategy and M&A programs targeted at reaching the $1B + size. He was a core member of the India and South Asia Hitachi group company CEO network.
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Sanjay brings over 20 years of solid execution experience from his previous role at Sierra Atlantic, as the CFO – Asia & China.”
Ravi GSR
Resident Mentor
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Intraprenuer 10x and Entrepreneur 1x.
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Over the past 15+ years I spent time at responsible positions across sectors that honed my business prowess, exposure to newer areas in M&A, Venture Building, Strategic & Operations Management interventions and benefit the organizations associated with.
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With my Entrepreneurial stint, committed/determined to make the world a better place and love to do what I do – trailblazing, venture building with motivated, passionate businesses/people, realize their ideas & help find that situation (impact) where they can really be along the way.
Sridhar Lanka
Resident Mentor
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Sridhar has about 20 years of experience in technology and innovation evangelism across multiple industries.
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Identify market opportunities, define customer segments, innovate, commercialize and deliver solutions for those opportunities have been his expertise over the years. Sridhar’s broad geographical experience and regional insights drive in this endeavor.
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Throughout his career, Sridhar was instrumental to incorporate innovation, go to market, growth strategy, delivery management of Innovations.
Vikrant Varshney
Resident Mentor
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Vikrant Varshney is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at SucSEED Venture Partners.
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Prior to joining SucSEED Venture Partner, He is previously the Chief of Board of Advisors and Chief Risk Officer & Managing Partner at Risk Resources.
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Mr. Varshney received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering at Aligarh Muslim University and earned an MBA in Strategy & Systems at International Management Institute – IMI.
Viiveck Verma
Co-Founder
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Viiveck has 30+ years of work experience in well-known corporate houses, with a proven track record for dynamic leadership.
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He has seen immense success at setting up and managing profit center operations, corporate planning and business development.
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His roles entailed setting up policies and processes in start-ups as well as exposure to multi industries viz. Yellow Pages, Travel, Telecommunications, Office Automation, BPO, Insurance, Logistics, and Document Storage & Management.
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Viiveck is an ICF (International Coaching Federation) certified professional Coach. He is the Co-Founder of DiSRUPPt Thinking LLP
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He is Board Member – Hyderabad Angels, Investor, Founding Promotor– IIIT Seed Fund, Advisory Board Member JNTU, Convener – Hyderabad Hackers, Mentor – Start-up Ecosystem, Co-Organizer– TEDxHyderabad, and many more.
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As an Investor, his investments are sector agnostic and currently include 15 start-ups. At any given point of time, he mentors approximately 10 or more start-ups.
