Cohort Leaders
Sector Specific Leadership and Entrepreneurship Experience
Mr Shiva Subramaniam will be leading the HealthTech cohort. Shiva has been an investor and advisor to healthcare and education startups. He has over 10 years of experience in CEO /Business head roles and a track record of aggressively growing revenue and profits. He is a board member for Nanohealth a healthcare startup and an advisor to Whitespace Alpha an alternative investment fund. He is an alum of IIM Ahmedabad.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiva-subramaniam-830b901
Shiva will be supported by Mr Rohit Kuthiala, a passionate technologist and entrepreneur. We are looking for startups that have a strong social purpose and can help make healthcare accessible and affordable. He is an alum of IIM Bangalore.https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkuthiala/
Mr Neeraj Tandon, a seasoned entrepreneur and industry leader who has performed leadership roles across functions and geographies in Technology companies will lead SAAS cohort. He will help you prioritize, bring a global perspective, facilitate market access and help you get ready to raise capital. We will provide access to global markets through a sales ecosystem created specifically for this program. He is an alum of IIM Bangalore and IIT Delhi.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neeraj-tandon-4256a514/
Ms Jyoti Sharma is an internationally recognised Social sector leader, having worked in the water conservation and sustainability space for more than two decades. She is an Ashoka Fellow, an author and an entrepreneur and has been nominated to several Policymaking Committees of the Indian Union and State Governments. Jyoti brings an interesting blend of experience and skillsets to help startups. She is an alum of IIM Bangalore and Delhi University. She will lead the Social Impact cohort.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyotisharmaforce/
https://force.org.in/
Dr Manohar Bhat has in-depth experience of marketing, sales, logistics, product development, channel sales, sales promotion and finance to advertising with Maruti, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors. He set up and built Kia Motors into a top 5 India automobile brand in his last role. Manohar Bhat would mentor start-ups in the Electric Mobility/auto space. He would like to leverage his learning to help the new entrants build their market presence quickly.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilesh-singh-7a35a15/
Mr Rajesh Ambwani is a serial entrepreneur and an alum of IIT Delhi, Lehigh University, USA and FMS Delhi. He will lead the DeepTech cohort. Rajesh has worked on Industrial Technologies, New Materials, Biomedical devices, Energy and Cleantech and technologies involving Artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning. He is well conversant with the ecosystem accompanying Deep-tech and has developed several products to make promising advances in smart devices.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-ambwani-92b0291b2/
Mr Akhilesh Singh would be leading the FinTech vertical. He has been a pioneer in the financial services industry and has been a resident entrepreneur at Shriram Finance Group having set up multiple businesses there. He is an alum of IIM Bangalore and IIT Kharagpur.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhilesh-singh-7a35a15/
Mr Sunil Khanna is an alum of IIM Bangalore and will lead D2C cohort. He has a 30+ year career of building businesses and is also a serial entrepreneur. His first entrepreneurial venture was Topper - a pioneering venture in the educational content space. The venture is now owned by the Reliance Group. Now he works full time on his second venture Songdew, a platform with more than 50K musicians. In his last corporate role he was CEO/ President of the Zee TV Network. Sunil is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Bangalore.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil31/
Startup Stories
We have helped startups from IIT Delhi, IIM Bangalore, IIT Roorkee and host of other instititutes with market access, funding, advisory board design and business model design.
Plexihealth
Pkexihealth is one of the few Healthcare startups that has been started by doctors. We are helping them develop a scalable business model and make them funding ready.
Skill-Edge
SkillEdge is an EdTech company focused on college to jobs skilling segment. We helped them refine their pitch and raise funds from angel investors.
Flexmotive
Flexmo makes mobility products with research based designs to reduce stress of mobility and improve quality of living. We helped them with market access and initial model design.
GoPure
Go Pure Natural IceCreams has been founded by Ms Ranu Surana of Jaipur. She translated her personal passion for ice creams and natural foods into a business.
Sanfe
Sanfe was founded by two passionate students of IIT Delhi while they were still on the campus. They have become a successful venture now serving needs of women of all ages.
VecMocon
Helped them finetune the business model and focus on their strengths. Subsequently got them strategic investment from an automotive major.
NanoSafe
Nanosafe started its journey with copper treated antimicrobial bottles. We helped her refine her pitch for the Bio Ignition grant (BIG). During Covid she diversified into nano technology based masks.
Kriya Labs
Kriya Labs provides solutions from waste natural materials. They assigned economic value to the agricultural residue to drive change. We helped them with business model design and fundraise.
Geliose Mobility
Geliose Mobility is a pioneer in 2W and 3W Electric Mobility. It developed robust indigenous designs and manufacturing capability. We assisted them with the product development roadmap and product market fit.
Select Investors
i4 Angels Network has over hundred members, including HNIs and family offices. Sharing profiles and investment thesis of a select few.
Managing Partner - Chase Legal
B2B Tech Startups with strong focus on business outcomes
Abhishek Kumbhat
Founder & CEO, SapidBlue Technologies
Founders with Strong Tech & Product Focus.
Gaurav Gupta
Founder - Packaged Foods Business
Invests in founders with deep commitment to long term growth and legacy
Founder and Principal - Millenstrat Advisory & Research
Mobility and Sustainable focused startups
Program Design and Sectors
We present you to investors first and if you are not satisfied with the valuation offered, you may choose to join the accelerator program. Its a 3 months Structured Mentoring Program across 7 Industry Verticals.
Program Highlights
- Investment First. If ready for investment, presented to investor immediately.
- A structured 3-month program across domains
- Startups divided into industry-specific cohorts.
- Each cohort will be led by senior leader from that industry (leaders listed above)
- Investment Pitch to i4 Angels Network
- Option of mentoring till you find the right investment or till next round
Sectors of interest
- Electric Mobility
- SaaS
- FinTech
- DeepTech
- HealthTech
- D2C
- Social Impact Enterprises
Selection Criterion:
- Solution prototype ready
- Have some paying customers or regular users.
Program Services
- Mentoring Sessions by experienced Industry Leaders: Business Model review and advisory
- Sessions on: Legal/Intellectual Property Protection, Fund Raise
- Access to local and global Industry ecosystem enabled by industry leaders and i4 Mentors Foundation
- Networking with partners: Software Development, Business development ecosystem, CA, Legal Advice
- Access to Seed and Growth Funding
- Post-program support: Mentoring for business growth and investment readiness
Fee:
- There would be a small fee for the program. The fee can be waived in special cases.
Mentors
Mentors have c-level leadership experience with deep industry connects
Alok Agrawal
Co-founder AiEye Technologies, Co-founder RaysEnserve
What we do & Why
Simply put, we love to see our startups scale rapidly. We are a not for profit company and for it's an opportunity to give back.
Founders have a deep desire to change the world around them and need an enabling environment to realize their vision and scale. We share that passion and help by fine-tuning the solution and enabling product-market fit, evolving the business model, and helping create a viable and sustainable financial model needed to raise funds.
We also help in selecting the right partners and markets, strengthen business processes, and fine-tune the organization design needed to scale the business. We help build a business with a Compelling Value Proposition that is “Funding ready”.
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