Title: Corporates-Incubator Partnerships in India
By Line: Various levels and models of engagement across sectors
Incubator Name In Partner- ship With
Type of Partnership
Brief Based
In
Who they work with
Type of Support Type/dura- tion of sup-
port
Contact
1 Unltd India JP Morgan
and Mi- cheal and Susan Dell Foundation
Sector Fo- cused Incu-
bation Pro- gram
An incubation program for social
organisations ex- hibiting innovative
solutions to chal- lenges in the In- dia skill develop-
ment sector
Mumbai Early stage social enterprises focused on skill development and employability of low-income youths
in India
Direct investment - seed capital to the startups
Mentoring and access to experts to enable scalability
Networking with funders and other stakeholders
Time-bound incubation
support
https://ti- nyurl.com/
ydae5uv8
2 empoWer - Zone Startups
Department of Science
& Technol- ogy, Voda- fone, GIZ, Google and Nishith De- sai Associ-
ates
Program partnership
India’s first accel- erator providing enterprise devel- opment support to
women entrepre- neurs to strengthen lead-
ership
Mumbai Women entrepre- neurs running series
A, series B and be- yond startups
Hand crafted team of advi- sors to assist in strategy and business development
Connections to investors, experts and corporate part-
ners
6 week community
program
prachi@zo nestartups.
com
Incubator Name In Partner- ship With
Type of Partnership
Brief Based
In
Who they work with
Type of Support Type/dura- tion of sup-
port
Contact
3 Rise Accelerator - Zone Startups
Barclays Program Partnership
India’s first cohort based global FinTech accelera-
tor program
Mumbai FinTech services in- cluding but not lim- ited to:
Payments/pro- cessing
Security/fraud solu- tions
Regulatory and compliance solu- tions
Big data and analyt- ics
Lending
Asset/wealth man- agement products Bitcoin/cryptocur- rencies
P2P Lending Crowdfunding
Residency in Rise Mumbai
Barclays technology, in- sight on Product/Market Fit,
mentors, advisors and ex- perts
$100,000 plus worth of cloud credits
Demo Day - presentation to investors, industry leaders
and strategic partners
18 weeks cohort based
harsh@zo nes- tartups.co
m
4 Agri-Udaan YES Bank,
NeML, Cas- pian
Support Partnerships
Food and Agricul- ture Accelerator offers sustainabil- ity and scalability support to innova- tors in food and agribusiness sec-
tor
Hydera- bad
Scale up stage food and agribusiness
startups
Mentorship and technical facilities
Funding opportunities and access to investors, ex- perts and industry partners
Capacity building work- shops
6 months cohort based
coo.aidea
@naarm.in
Incubator Name In Partner- ship With
Type of Partnership
Brief Based
In
Who they work with
Type of Support Type/dura- tion of sup-
port
Contact
5 Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entre-
preneurship - IIM-A
Multiple corporate
partners incl. SAP,
Godrej, VeriSign,
BP, Intel
Program and Strategic Partnership
Apart from entre- preneurial support
to IIMA students and alum, CIIE also supports ex-
ternal aspiring and early stage
startups
Ahem- edabad
Sector agnostic budding and early
stage startups
Startups can leverage the CIIE corporate network for fundraising support, sec- toral and functional exper-
tise, networking and com- munity support
ciie@iima hd.ernet.in
6 S-Cube Accelerator Program
SAP India and SINE-
IITB
Joint initia- tive
A joint initiative between SINE and SAP India to assist tech based
startups
Mumbai Tech based startups developing for-profit business solutions
with a social/envi- ronmental impact
Rs. 300000 in funding
Weekend training and men- torship programs
Demo Day to connect with potential investors
12 weeks https://ww w.f6s.com/
s3accelera- torpro- gramme/ab
out
7 Startup Village’s Sili- con Valley Program
Facebook Program Partnership
Facebook to offer guidance to engi- neers to become entrepreneurs through SV.Co
Kochi Engineering stu- dents
Entrepreneurship guidance and mentorship for 50 stu-
dents
Access to Facebook’s de- velopment teams in Califor-
nia
6 day trip to Facebook’s Menlo Park office to pre- sent their ideas and receive
6 months [email protected] o
Incubator Name In Partner- ship With
Type of Partnership
Brief Based
In
Who they work with
Type of Support Type/dura- tion of sup-
port
Contact
8 DBS-TISS Social En- trepreneurship Pro-
gram
DBS Bank with Tata Institute of Social Sci-
ences
Funding Support
DBS Bank to pro- vide seed funding
to select gradu- ates
Select social entre- preneurship gradu-
ates of TISS
Seed and incremental fund- ing
Assistance with venture plans and ideation
Funding for up to 2
years
http://www .tiss.edu/vi ew/11/in- cubation- centre/
9 AIM Smart City Accel- erator
Dalmia Bharat Group and
Holistik
Program Partnership
India’s first SmartCity accel- erator dedicated to improving the living spaces and conditions of peo-
ple.
1. Teams with an MVP 2. Focus Areas: Af-
fordable housing, water and air quality manage- ment, energy effi- ciency, good gov- ernance, sanita-
tion and solid waste manage-
ment etc.
Business development and design support
Strategic mentorship and investment support
Media interactions
Industry connect in the Smart City Domain areas
Access to government schemes
20 weeks info@aims martcity.co
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