Campus Founders
Backs Indian student founders with milestone funding up to INR 5 lakh for top ventures.
Getting in itself runs through six steps rather than a single review: an eligibility screen, a phone interview, a pitch to a mentor panel, a final expectation and program-fit assessment, and only then onboarding into the program. Once inside, advancing from one phase to the next depends on hitting specific bars, not just time served: moving from Phase 1 into Phase 2 needs strong customer validatio…
NSRCEL looks for recent graduates and student entrepreneurs across India, at the working-prototype stage or beyond, who can show proof of commitment and an idea with scale potential. It is sector-agnostic and open to any academic discipline.
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