Launch-n-Zoom Accelerator

The centre's corporate-partnered accelerator. It is between intakes; the page covers the fourth edition and earlier ones have also run.

What you get

• Validation against innovation needs set by the corporate partners, and a possible pilot with them
• An investment at graduation for some qualifying ventures, plus an introduction of your story to the centre's investment partners as possible co-investors
• Tailored mentoring on go-to-market, technology and customer acquisition
• Co-working space, business mentoring, legal and accounting support, technical support and labs for rapid prototyping
• Credits from cloud and software vendors
• A cohort of founders at a similar stage

Who can apply

• Technology-backed startups at pre-seed, seed or growth stage
• Working on agritech or fintech problems
• A venture that has already taken seed funding from a similar government scheme cannot also take a seed investment from the centre

On the agritech side the partners were looking at market linkage and farm inputs, farm mechanisation and automation, precision agriculture, quality management and traceability, supply chain and output market linkage, agricultural waste management and financial services. On the fintech side, autonomous finance, banking-as-a-service and financial inclusion for retail customers and for SMEs.

How to apply: Watch the programme page for the next call; queries to incubation@iimu.ac.in.