Acceleration

Acceleration is a cohort-driven, structured, high-touch market and investment-focused program for early-revenue stage and market-ready startups. The program aims to deliver all necessary elements to accelerate growth, improve existing processes, create distribution channels, and explore new business opportunities and markets. It also involves intense mentoring, intervention in the area of constraint, and providing access to strategic resources to scale their business rapidly.

The Process

16-Week Market-Driven Program

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Business training modules focused on rapid growth and productivity enhancement.

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Mentorship and guidance for business promotion strategies and marketing plans.

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Networking opportunities with peers, and identifying partnerships for accelerated growth.

04

Interface sessions with potential investors, funding sources, and financial institutions for funding prospects.

Cohorts and Updates!

Agri & Food Acceleration

A pan-India initiative, in partnership with I-Venture @ISB, identifies and engages an outstanding pool of entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to address problems in the agri-food sector with high growth potential.

Elevate Women Acceleration

Validating startup ideas, identifying market needs and discovering consumer segments with expert coaching and consumer insights

We Enable Bharat Acceleration

Launchpad is a student startup acceleration that backs young, bold, and, contrarian founders solving difficult problems to make a big impact on the world.

Impact

Cohorts completed

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Startups Supported

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Employment Opportunities Generated

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Billion Funds Raised

Offerings & Highlights

Market Access & Scale-Up Support

Fundraising Support

Founder Focused Learning Labs

Peer to Peer Learning

Startup Toolkit

Networking Opportunities

Portfolio

How to be selected?

Have an idea to impact Bharat’s Market?

Call for Application

Screening

Pitch to a jury

Agreement & Onboarding

Due diligence processes

Apply now to register your interest!

Interested to engage with our founders as a mentor?

Lets build your startup!

Meet Our Mentors

Amal Kiran

Anand K V

Deepak K T

Dr. Ish Anand

TESTIMONIAL

What They Say?

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We thank Deshpande Startups for giving us this opportunity. It’s a wonderful cohort where we met our fellow entrepreneurs. We had multiple sessions with great experts who gave us pivotal advice. We are here for one-on-one discussions on unit economics and sales in taking our business to a bigger scale, so we thank all the experts, all the coaches, and the coordinators of Deshpande Startups for giving us this wonderful opportunity and creating a great connection for the future of the startups.

Prasanna V, CMO, Mango point

Our association with Deshpande Startups has helped us to look at things differently from the entire agri ecosystem and with investors supporting it. We have gone through the process of interacting with many agri-ecosystem companies, technology companies, and investors. We look forward to taking this opportunity more effectively and ensuring that we are connected well with the ecosystem as a whole to gain benefits for all of us in the involved ecosystem.

Prashanth Hegde, Advisor, Whatsloan

I was fortunate to be onboarded by Deshpande Startups for this accelerator program, where they gave us vital insights. The interaction with the mentors, the industry experts who came in and shared their insights, and understood what we do, how we do it, Where we are going wrong, and where we should improve. These valuable insights have helped Gudhgrams to a considerable extent in terms of pivoting the business model.

Manas Seth, Founder, Gudhgrams

Frequently Asked Questions

How do we select the Startup for the incubation programme?

Here’s is how it works:

Step 1: Apply for our Pitching contest.

Step 2: After submitting the application, please send your business deck to incubation@dfmail.org

Step 3: Applications will be evaluated and shortlisted by a committee of experts

Step 4: Shortlisted startups will be given the opportunity to pitch their business plan virtually in front of our panel.

Step 5: The results will be announced shortly after the pitch and selected startups will be onboarded to the program.

Do we have domain-specific mentors for the startups?

Yes, we do have. Click on the link to meet our mentors Click Here

Is there a program fee?

We charge equity of 2%.

What is the duration of the incubation program?

The incubation program supports startups for 12 months, founders will be able to access alumni benefits and leverage our ecosystem for the following 2 years.

How much do we charge for the co-working space at Deshpande Startups?

We charge nominal rent with all the amenities available, please visit our Co-working Space.

I still have more questions ?

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