IBC Media

Who these programmes are for

IBC Media's programmes are aimed at student developers who want to learn Web3 and blockchain, not at founders with an existing startup looking for a cohort or investment. Before applying, check that you fit that audience.

How to take part

• The Continuous Education Program and the hackathons are entered by registering and enrolling online through IBC's AltHack dashboard.
• The on-ground Alt Hack bootcamps run city by city; the editions currently listed have already taken place, so watch for a new edition rather than an open form.
• The listed online hackathons show registration as closed, so the route in is to wait for the next one to open.

How the journey fits together

The on-ground Alt Hack and the hackathons are designed to feed into the Continuous Education Program, where student teams work with IBC Media's mentors to build a product. If you join through a hackathon or a bootcamp, expect the Continuous Education Program to be the next step rather than a standalone end point.

What to expect

The programmes are structured around orientation, education and training, ideation and building, and the company states that students who complete the journey become eligible for grant support and for Web3 career and job opportunities.

IBC Media is a Web3 and blockchain company based in Hyderabad, Telangana. On its own about page it describes itself as a web 3.0 innovation company that works in collaboration with the Government of India. What its live site actually shows is not an incubator or an accelerator with a startup cohort, but a set of education programmes for student developers, student hackathons, and a blockchain conference.

The operating entity is not entirely consistent on the site. The brand and copyright line use the name IBC Media, while the contact address block names the company Enbloc Media, at Inwinex Towers on Banjara Hills Road No. 2 in Hyderabad, and the company's social handle points to an Enbloc name. The legal relationship between the two names is not spelled out on the pages themselves, so the two are best read as the same organisation operating under different names.

What they do

IBC Media's work centres on getting student developers into Web3. Its programmes take students from an introduction to blockchain through to building a first product, and the company states that students who complete the journey become eligible for grant support and for careers or jobs in Web3, and are helped towards starting their own companies. The audience it names throughout is the student developer community, rather than founders already running a startup.

Programmes

The Continuous Education Program, which IBC Media calls IBC-CEP, is a 60-day, module-based deep dive into Web3 and blockchain for student developers. It runs through orientation, education and intensive training sessions led by experts, and takes students up to the point of building a product. Students register and enrol online through IBC's AltHack dashboard.

The On-ground Alt Hack is an eight-day, full-cycle on-ground bootcamp for the student developer community, where students learn Web3 and blockchain through orientation, education and training, ideation and building. It is designed to flow into the Continuous Education Program, where students complete their Web3 journey. The editions shown on the site, in Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Delhi, are all past, and no open registration is listed; treat it as a recurring programme that runs between intakes.

IBC also runs online hackathons, listed as IBC-HACK-1 and IBC-HACK-2, where student teams pitch Web3 ideas to industry figures and then work on building a product with IBC Media's mentors as part of the Continuous Education Program. Registration for the listed hackathons is marked closed.

Partnerships, as the company states them

IBC Media says its history includes partnerships with multiple state governments and the Prime Minister's Office, and an association with the policy think tank Niti Aayog, alongside engineering schools and technology services companies. These are the company's own descriptions of its relationships rather than independently confirmed recognitions, so they are best read as claims the company makes about itself.

The conference

Separately from the student programmes, IBC Media runs a blockchain conference, for which it reports attendance figures covering government attendees, international delegates, speakers, sponsors and the countries represented. These are event figures the company publishes for its conference, not a count of startups it has supported.

Who this is and is not for

The programmes here are built for student developers learning Web3, not for founders looking for a cohort, investment, equity-based acceleration or incubation space. There is no application track for outside startup founders, no portfolio of backed companies, and no coworking or incubation facility described anywhere on the site. A founder searching for a blockchain accelerator should know that going in; a student developer wanting to learn Web3 and build a first product is the person these programmes are written for.