PESU Venture Labs

Check whether you are eligible first

PVL's flagship Venture Studio is campus-gated. It is open to PES University students pursuing Engineering in their third, fifth and seventh semesters, in teams of two to six, with no GPA requirement. If you are not a PES University engineering student, this programme is not open to you.

How applications work

Apply through the register or apply call-to-action on the Venture Studio page. Every idea is accepted into the first phase, so getting in is not the hard part; staying in is.

How selection works

After the first phase, teams go through three checkpoints and are shortlisted on the strength of their work, judged by mentors and the PVL team. Build evidence of progress across the Discover, Build and Launch phases rather than relying on the strength of the initial idea alone.

PESU Venture Labs (PVL) is a deep-tech venture studio and micro fund, founded in 2021 by Suresh Narasimha of CoCreate Ventures in partnership with PES University in Bengaluru. It describes itself as a science-first backer of student- and researcher-led startups, working from offices on the PES University campus.

What they support

PVL frames itself around deep tech, backing companies where the technology is the differentiator. Its flagship programme is campus-gated to PES University engineering students rather than open to founders across India, so a founder outside the university should check eligibility before applying.

Programmes

The Venture Studio, which PVL also calls its Accelerator Bootcamp, is a ten-week deep-tech venture creation programme run in three phases: Discover in weeks one to three, Build in weeks four to eight, and Launch in weeks nine and ten. It is open to engineering students in their third, fifth and seventh semesters, with no GPA requirement and teams of two to six members from any year or department. All ideas are taken into the first phase, and teams are then shortlisted after three checkpoints based on evaluation by mentors and the PVL team.

PVL has also run Venture City, a one-day live simulation of a startup economy held on the PES University RR Campus, where participants form teams at the event and compete through the day. Entry needed a college ID, and no prior startup experience, team or idea was required.

Who runs it

PVL is run in partnership with PES University, which focuses on entrepreneurship through its Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), and with CoCreate Ventures as its venture-building partner. CoCreate operates micro funds to help build deep-tech startups.

Locations

PVL lists two offices inside PES University: the CIE Office on the 12th floor of B Block on the Outer Ring Road campus, and the CIE Office on the 4th floor of the Main Block at the Electronic City campus.