VentureNursery invites Idea, Pre-Early Stage Start-ups for Acceleration
# Season 9 of 13-week acceleration program begins Jan 2016
# VentureNursery alumni include OYO Rooms, Talview, Klip
Bangalore December 8, 2015 VentureNursery, India's first angel-backed accelerator, has invited early stage start-ups from across the country to apply for Season 9 of its 13-week acceleration program. The intensive program will include mentoring by experienced members of the accelerator.
A maximum of three start ups will be chosen after a five-stage rigorous selection process. Only start ups that are at the inception stage and are focussed on solving a urgent and pervasive customer need will be considered. Once selected, the budding entrepreneurs will get access to the most relevant advice from VentureNursery's 30 members.
In addition, they will also get to tap the rich resource pool of VentureNursery's Mentors-in-Residence drawn from the best in business, in marketing and finance, strategy and execution to technology as well as domain experts.
"VentureNursery network of 30 experienced professionals and entrepreneurs is committed to helping start-ups reach 'pole position' in their area of business,"says VentureNursery's co-founder Shravan Shroff.
"The chosen members from VN pool help steer and mould strategies of young, agile and adaptive founding teams," adds Shravan Shroff who comes with decades of experience in managing and scaling up businesses profitably.
Elaborating on what differentiates a successful start-up, VentureNursery co-founder Ravi Kiran said, "The Passion to steadfastly identify an existing or a hidden customer need, a sound plan coupled with strong bias for execution are integral to building a successful start-up."
So far 16 entrepreneurs have graduated from VentureNursery's eight previous acceleration programs successfully.
Here's what some of VentureNursery Graduates say about their acceleration experience:
Harsh Gadia, founder, Klip, fashion and lifestyle social commerce platform
"VentureNursery gave us Access and Guidance. Access to experienced professionals and investors. And deep guidance on the business. Generally you find one of the two on a single platform but VentureNursery gave us both."
Tufayl Merchant, co-founder, Fixy, an on-demand service platform for Handyman, Repair and Home Maintenance Services
"As aspiring entrepreneurs taking early steps to build scalable businesses, VentureNursery's acceleration program helped us to take on real world scenarios. An invigorating experience, highly recommended for both first time entrepreneurs and even those who've built and sold businesses in the past."
Dhruv Raj Gupta and Sukhmani Singh, co-founders, SeekSherpa, platform connecting traveller and locals
"We joined the VentureNursery program as two starry-eyed entrepreneurs with grand visions of Googlesque offices and free lunches. In turn we left as battle hardened, wizened and humbled business folks with a key eye on innovation and metrics at the same time.
"We learnt a lot from our network of mentors at VentureNursery, honed our business idea, and raised money to initiate a transformational concept in the sightseeing industry."
VentureNursery focuses on maximising the success potential of the start-ups through its intensive and immersive coaching and mentoring role in the chosen start-ups helping them with end-to-end infrastructural and learning support. Most of the mentoring is done face to face and the curriculum is customized for each start-up team.
Even though its members have made angel investments in nearly a dozen start ups who have been through its acceleration program in the last 3 years, it does not entertain start-ups looking only for funding.
Since 2012 VentureNursery has accelerated 21 start-ups from a wide range of sectors, of which 16 have graduated and 12 start-ups are active and growing well.
These include branded budget hotel chain OYO Rooms, video interview platformTalview, fashion and lifestyle social commerce platform Klip, crowd funding platformCatapooolt, platform connecting traveller and locals SeekSherpa, artificial general intelligence company InvenZone, last minute hotel booking companyHotelsAroundYou, curated activity and hobby classes discovery companyFindUrClass, on-demand beauty and wellness platform The Home Salon and Fixy an on-demand service platform for Handyman, Repair and Home Maintenance Services.
About VentureNursery [@venturenursery]
VentureNursery, India's premier angel-backed start-up accelerator, pursues its goal of helping Indian start-ups and founders achieve pole position, in their endeavour to solve large problems and create scalable ventures.
VentureNursery's acceleration programs focus on first time entrepreneurs and helps find their feet and develop an ability to take difficult decisions in business. Through its intensive acceleration programs that last between eight and forty weeks, the start-up founders develop market understanding, learn business fundamentals and get solution validation from experienced entrepreneurs and business professionals, helping them reduce some of the basic risk of starting, staying and building the business.
VentureNursery has successfully fostered a Culture of Curiosity, Problem Solving and Innovation among its graduates to create enterprises, employment, and socio-economic value.
By developing a sustainable mentoring infrastructure consisting of inspired mentors from diverse fields, VentureNursery has mentored 21 start-ups, of which 16 have graduated and 12 are active and growing well. VentureNursery alumni ventures have created nearly 1000 jobs.
VentureNursery alumni include branded budget hotel chain OYO Rooms, video interview platform Talview, fashion and lifestyle social commerce platform Klip,crowd funding platform Catapooolt, platform connecting traveller and localsSeekSherpa, artificial intelligence company InvenZone's Arya.ai, last minute hotel booking company HotelsAroundYou, curated activity and hobby classes discovery company FindUrClass, on-demand beauty and wellness platform The Home Salon and and Fixy, an on-demand service platform for Handyman, Repair and Home Maintenance Services.
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